While I claim neither allegiance to allopathic medicine's facility for concocting names of 'diseases', nor any fondness for the fact that practitioners hardly-ever 'cure' anything ... as they treat all the symptom$ forever after:

Am acquainted with a person suffering from Lyme disease, an intelligent and diligent researcher of the usual sources (re a personal affliction) and with no hypochondria tendencies or related character 'tells'.
She acquired the odd symptoms which intruded increasingly into her life, and sought treatment.
At that time, Kaiser (for one) had no knowledge of the 'disease' and blew her off entirely, refusing to 'treat' this 'imaginary illness'
(Unclear to me just now if 'Lyme" had even entered the weekly lexicon, at that juncture.)
aka: they willingly ignored the overt signs of debilitation, etc. It hadn't made it into the PDR yet, ergo she must be a nutcase.
Your disease MUST be listed or.. you're OK ?!? [ONE]

She finally found, via a friend, a Univ. med researcher who knew her symptoms were not BS, etc.
It was he who got her the Rx for a promising bit of alchemy. Etc. At her expense, natch.

Perhaps fibromyalgia is at a similar phase, thus bearing ridicule for the imprecision and ignorance of those who 'profess' to know.
Find one overt faker and gossip will do the rest, I wot. And when bean-counters enter the act in our for-big-profit med empire:
can we not expect these early dismissals? It only makes good bottom-line $sense.


My 2.5 kopeks