answer:From what I’ve read about fibromyalgia, it’s a very real and sometimes disabling pain disorder. But, it’s also the disease-of-choice for hypochondriacs. Fibromyalgia can’t be medically discounted, so anyone in search of a disability will reach for it. In fact, some health care practitioners will offer a fibromyalgia diagnosis to appease and pacify a hypochrondriac. People can’t “create” cancer at will; there are numerous methods for detecting the presence or absence of cancerous cells within a human body. There’s also plenty of substantiation for a heart attack, spleen rupture, brain tumor, etc., etc., etc. The same isn’t true, however, for fibromyaligia, which is diagnosed according to a set of symptoms. It’s unfortunate that fibromyalgia isn’t physically evident. Many true sufferers are dismissed as malingerers or hypochondriacs when, in actual fact, they have a serous pain condition.