>>12309515what they found here was not one biomarker, but a difference in proteins and sugars than in people with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, or lupus. That's nice, but they themselves admit that they don't know if it's necessarily pertaining to fibromyalgia, or if it's caused by a comorbidity like chronic stress, obesity, or medication. They even admit that they don't know whether or not fibromyalgia is caused by a neuropathy, or a metabolic syndrome.
In the posts you linked written by me, I never claimed that there is no underlying medical condition causing the symptoms, in fact I was very specific in saying that the problem with fibromyalgia is that the diagnosis results in an assumption that the true disease is untreatable. I never claimed that everyone with fibromyalgia is faking it, the point is that you can't have a disease if there's no cause, no mechanism, and no cure. If they discover than many people diagnosed with fibromyalgia have a nerve disorder, and that many others have a metabolic disorder, or a neurotransmitter disorder, that doesn't mean fibromyalgia is real. It means they discovered the true disorder hiding behind fibromyalgia. The nature of how wide and subjective the criteria for fibromyalgia are means that it is incredibly unlikely that most of the people diagnosed actually have the same disorder, which is why it is not a real disease, but a "we don't know".
