Talk:Fibromyalgia

Need for scientific update
The entry is based on many old papers and is not up to date regarding recent academic findings. Is there a way to flag this? SigTif (talk) 06:26, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Consider it flagged. Have you details of the recent academic findings? We cant do anything without them. -Roxy the grumpy dog . wooF 06:33, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
 * There are several papers revolving around (IgG) autoimmunity, this should be added if someone wants to do it. Till now, the article mentions none of it.
 * E.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34196305/, papers are usually Goebel et al or Karolinska.
 * There is even a Phase 2 study with an IgG reducer, cf. https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05643794. 2003:EC:6F19:2200:A0EF:9214:1BBE:D39A (talk) 18:38, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * That Goebel paper is important. Do you know if it's been discussed in a review paper? I know it's replicated in people with pain in long covid, but is it also replicated in fibro? Wikipedia typically doesn't use primary sources per WP:medrs, and relies on reviews instead. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 11:08, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Agreed. More recent papers are pointing to the existence of FM without paired tender points. The idea is over 30 years old and possibly very wrong. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016048/ 50.46.9.58 (talk) 00:44, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

I wonder whether female sex by itself is a risk factor for fibromyalgia, or just makes someone more likely to be abused (which in turn makes them 3 times more likely to get fibromyalgia). Calling sex a risk factor without controlled evidence looks suspect to me. 2601:441:4900:A6E0:6CEF:A62F:D2DB:454 (talk) 23:50, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Outdated image
In the "Signs and symptoms" section, there is an image of a woman with multiple symptoms. The image is from 2009, and as of 2022 is inaccurate. It includes symptoms such as dizziness, weight gain, skin complaints, urinary problems, twitches and dysmenorrhea that do not appear to be backed up by a reliable source. I suggest removing the image, unless someone would like to update it. SigTif (talk) 05:49, 9 April 2022 (UTC)


 * The image has been removed at some point between this comment and now. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 20:32, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Images
, I am looking at the changes you're currently making with inserting images, and it doesn't look to be an improvement. The articles are not galleries, and the images (at time of this comment) do not add anything in themselves. That is, the sentence has value, and should simply be in the body of the article; putting that as the caption of the image File:Irritable_bowel_syndrome.jpg does not add value: not only is the image so vague as to not really convey any information, this is in the fibromyalgia article, where it doesn't even seem relevant. Similarly, the replacement of the image in the infobox is not an improvement: the previous image was informative and conveyed information, the current one is effectively just clip-art: an image of a person with their hand on their neck (File:Fibromialgia.jpg) does not convey any information. Remember, articles do not have to have images, even in the infobox; this is the sort of image you would put in an infobox if they were required and you had absolutely nothing better to put there. I see you have put the template up, so I will not touch the article until that is removed, but I figured I would add this comment before you put in too many images that don't add anything. Kimen8 (talk) 18:38, 15 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I understand, Feel free to delete and unneeded images. SigTif (talk) 18:58, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and reverted all of the image insertions. I also reverted the infobox image and caption change: putting a list of symptoms in the infobox image's caption is not useful, because the infobox already has a parameter listing symptoms. I also took out another image that's in this same vein, i.e., is not adding value in the article, that was already in the article before the edits I reverted. Kimen8 (talk) 19:16, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * WP:NOTGALLERY and WP:IMAGEDD are the justification for removing these images that are irrelevant or do not add value/information to the article. Kimen8 (talk) 19:18, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

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