HSS 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Clouding Of Consciousness
23 Nov 2018
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Lecture 7 the experience of illness: case study of fibromyalgia. Todays outline: video: jennifer brea, defining fibromyalgia (fm): history, statistics, clinical, american college of rheumatology. Classification criteria (acr: chronic generalized pain fm and the icf, illness experience in fibromyalgia: metasynthesis of qualitative studies (sim & madden, Myalgic encephalomyelitis (me) also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (not fibromyalgia but very similar) Ted talk: what happens when you have a disease doctors can"t diagnose. After seeing so many doctors no one knew what she had, the psychiatrist said she was sick but not for mental issues. Her neurologist said that she was getting all these symptoms because she her mind is fighting an old memory that she could not remember, her brain was causing this. Dr called it conversion disorder, not any biological stuff caused the symptoms. 15-30 million people around the world , 1 million in us.
