Over the last few years this blog has look a few times at the kinds of discrimination face by people with various medical condition. Indeed according to our poll run last year over 70% of our readers have faced dicrimination at work because of health problems.

So I was very interested to read an article published earlier this month in Communities Digital News entitled “The fibromyalgia stigma: When law enforcement, not pain management, wins” You can read Paul Mountjoy’s article on their site here.

He argues ” A patient who mentions the “F” word, or fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), to most primary care physicians, hospital residents, specialists and even pain management clinics, is liable to be labeled as a ‘drug seeker’and not a serious patient.”

Certainly this has been the experience of many patients with fibro, diagnosed or undiagnosed.

But i was wondering to what extent it applies to our readers. It would be great if you could take our poll where we look in more detail at the question of a stigma associated with fibromyalgia.

It would be great if you could use the comments box below to share your story in more detail.

Many thanks in advance.