Why is it that people who have serious chronic pain or chronic illnesses (i.e. Fibromyalgia, Endometriosis, Chronic Fatigue syndrome etc) can only be treated to a certain extent but not cured? What makes these illnesses more difficult to treat?
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So with all of the examples you listed, there isn’t a specific target that we can try to hit. Without having a root cause to address, all you can do is treat symptoms as they come. Endometriosis is probably the closest we can come to treating a root cause (using OCPs), but even then stopping the deposition of the endometrial tissue in the first place is not something we’re able to do as far as I’m aware (I’m not a gynecologist so I’m not 100% uptodate on that)
With regards to chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, another difficulty is that there’s probably a wide variety of causes that lead to a similar syndrome which makes treatment trickier. And sometimes patients don’t want to hear the appropriate treatment (therapy, exercise, that sorta thing) and interpret that as their symptoms being dismissed as for.
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