Fibromyalgia and obesity: discuss It seems that along with PCOS, and a few mental health disorders, fibromyalgia and obesity go hand in hand. Anyone else noticed this? The amount of young women I'm seeing coming from the hospital doors claiming to have this non-testable illness and demanding to be waited on hand and foot is too damn high  Case in point, woman has routine procedure. It's a day case usually, people are usually home 8 hours after the operation. Oh not this lady. She's currently on day 6 and has a morphine pump because apparently her fibro has 'flaired up', which means that this 29 year old woman who came in walking, now needs us to wash her, feed her, and wipe her ass. It took my assistant 32 minutes to sit her at the edge of the bed. You see those sloths on Zootopia? It was exactly like that but with more adipose and howling.  Tell me why I do this.