Collagenous colitis / Fibromyalgia

harvest_table · Post by **harvest_table** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 12:51 pm

Collagenous colitis is a newly recognized clinicopathologic entity that presents with diarrhea and weight loss. In some patients arthropathy may be a concomitant feature. We describe a patient whose initial presentation masqueraded as fibromyalgia with associated bowel symptoms, but who was finally diagnosed as having collagenous colitis and inflammatory spondyloarthropathy.

Link to article here, however, in order to read full text it looks as though you need to subscribe to the Journal of Rheumatology.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entre ... $=activity

If someone finds it elsewhere please post it. Thanks.

Joanna

Post by **tex** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:51 pm

Joanna,

I couldn't find a "free" source for the article either, but from the abstract, at least we can see that someone has finally made the connection between MC and fibromyalgia. It's about time.

Thanks for posting all these, by the way. We appreciate it.

Love,
Tex

harvest_table · Post by **harvest_table** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:47 pm

Your most welcome Tex and thank you for all you do...

Love,
Joanna