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Thanks, jif, you did it perfectly!

I just knew it! I'd suspected that a portion of this denial of chronic Lyme disease was about major pharmaceutical companies wanting to make big $$$ off of our "mysterious" symptoms. Then I saw Lyrica come onto the market, and now this.

Antibiotics, often available as generics, would be so much cheaper.

Then this at the end of the article got me...

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"I think that some physicians do believe that fibromyalgia isn't a real condition, and our job to spread the word that there are objective findings that these people are in pain," Harris said.

But Dr. Scott Zashin, a rheumatologist in private practice in Dallas, says fibromyalgia is one of the more common conditions he sees.

Zashin says he usually tries to get fibromyalgia patients to exercise more or get more rest before turning to medication.

"These patients seem to have an increased sensitivity to pain," Zashin said. "Something in their makeup makes them experience pain differently."

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