@Aimes- that's just a blog from a person I mentioned above. She just made that up herself- it doesn't exist in the medical community at all💕

@A MyFibroTeam Member I'm sorry your doctor has misinformed you. Rating your pain level is not a stage. A stage in a disease, illness relates to the progression of the disease, illness.
Stage 1 is when you first contract the disease, illness. Stage 4 the disease has progressed through the other stages and is terminal, your life expectancy is not long. Fibromayalgia has flares, sufferes and medical professionals usually describe this.
I understand there a different levels of pain experienced, mild moderate and severe This is not a disease progression, which is what stages entails. These are pain levels people experience with fibro.

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There are no stages in the medical community. The only time you will find stages is from a girl's personal blog on the internet that she made up. I don't believe there are even mild,moderate or severe differences either in the medical world♥️

My understanding is fibro does not advannce and have stages like a disease, its more a condition, reaction of your body. Fibro definitely has flares where you have intensified symptoms. This is caused by a trigger. Triggers can be different for each persons. Hope this helps. ☺

As far as I know, there r no defined stages. There is a spectrum according to my rheumatologist. I seem to have moved along it, but it's hard know. I'm not the most severe, or the most mild. If measured on a scale, I might say that I have gone from an overall 7 out of 10 3 years ago to a 10 after surgery last year. Now I might be more like a 5. Pretty functional, but must be very careful not to do too much, and vigilant in self care.