I was told for over 20 years I had Fibromyalgia, each year with the flare ups slowly getting worse and worse. Wondering how FM could get so bad?

Then recently I was told it isn't FM its MS. How could this happen? How could I have been misdiagnosed simply because the doctor in NSW had said to me "there is a possibility of one of 2 things; either FM or MS but MS is not worth considering I don't even want to think about it".

Now here I am with this diagnosis having gone through years and years of the worst pain imaginable yet being told the pain is because of the depression or I was addicted to pain killers because of the FM.

Where do these doctors get off being so self inflated and so darned sure? How many lives has this dr ruined and caused so much pain suffering and sickness in?

I'm not angry I'm relieved, but I'm unhappy that I suffered for so many years in agony when I could have had the right medication straight away and not suffered so much.

Please don't get me wrong I know we are all human and make mistakes but this doctor had the blood test results and everything A speckled titre above the +result but because it was only a certain amt past it, they chose to say FM instead. I asked for repeat tests when I started getting worse and having bouts of almost total paralysis and double vision that glasses didn't correct among other things,

Sorry, I'm in pain and I wanted a rant