Physicians say patient anxiety is increasing because of medical information read online, with self-diagnoses of diseases like fibromyalgia and lupus.

Do you know someone who has been told that he or she has fibromyalgia? It seems as if almost everybody who walks into my office lately has received this diagnosis. Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition seen more often in women than in men. It's fairly common, affecting 5 percent to 15 percent of the population. Still, I think that it is overdiagnosed, and that means too many patients aren't ...

Dear Dr. Gott: I have been told I have fibromyalgia. It seems like this is a diagnosis when it isn't known what is wrong. When I wake in the morning, I feel like I have been in an auto accident. I hurt from top to bottom.

(ARA) - A new national survey reveals the private, prolonged, physical and emotional struggles that women with fibromyalgia face, in part because it can take several years for them to be diagnosed.

(ARA) - A new national survey reveals the private, prolonged, physical and emotional struggles that women with fibromyalgia face, in part because it can take several years for them to be diagnosed. Most sufferers (85 percent) consider fibromyalgia a burden in their lives, making it difficult to work, maintain relationships or keep up their households. Yet more than half (54 percent) say their ...