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Wow, you've had T1 for 60 years? Good job, always nice to read things like that (i.e., of others that are living long lives despite diabetes).

Regarding fibromyalgia, it isn't just a designer diagnosis for unspecified muscle pain. There are more diagnostic criteria than that now, like sensitivity at certain pressure points, specific sleep pattern disruptions, often GI complications, etc. No, there is no definite, specific diagnostic test for FMS, but it is more defined than it has been in years past. I used to think it was just a bs diagnosis as well. The wife was diagnosed with it, so I started reading up and studying more about it, as well as attending doctors appointments with her to rheumatologists, sleep specialists, and others. I now beleive that it is a real condition. The probability of there being a confluence of so many different symptoms in many different people seems to me unlikely to be chance alone.

So, Heather, just how does one care for their joints?