Fibromyalgia No More!

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately five million people suffer from fibromyalgia, a disorder that has an unspecific cause. A 2004 study in the Journal of Rheumatology showed that approximately $14,000 are spent per individual with fibromyalgia per year in direct and indirect medical costs. Women are seven to 10 times [...]

Blog Classic: Sept. 29, 2010 I decided it was time to dust this one off because it’s all I can think of to write about today, as I recover from a fun but exhausting weekend trip. I’m planning to use some of the techniques listed below to get myself moving – right after a nap [...]

Recent data suggest that there may be an increased sensitivity to pain throughout the body, pain can be migratory (move) or as chronic regional pain syndrome. Most experts are fibromyalgia results from abnormal function of the central nervous system to believe. Response to stress and psycho-behavioral [...]

There is no clear objective method for the diagnosis of fibromyalgia. The criteria used for the investigation of fibromyalgia are very helpful, especially if the patient has no accompanying disorders such as depression or arthritis, which could complicate the diagnosis. Meet the criteria but do not rule out fibromyalgia [...]

If you have fibromyalgia pain, hang in there – pain relief is possible. Today, doctors have treated more insight into fibromyalgia, and with many types of medications to their symptoms. Antidepressants, anticonvulsants, narcolepsy drugs, pain killers, sleeping pills – when used for treating fibromyalgia symptoms [...]

Pain. The primary symptom of fibromyalgia is pain. The pain can be in one place or all over the body. The exact locations of the pain points as a border. Fibromyalgia pain is often described as: Tender point pain that occurs in local areas, usually in the neck and shoulders. The pain then spreads [...]

Fibromyalgia tender points are sometimes mistakenly called “trigger points”, the terminology that is used to describe can cause a situation where pressure on certain trigger points, a sequence of symptoms is known. This is not the case with fibromyalgia tender points, which are a focus of chronic pain [...]

Symptoms of Fibromyalgia The universal symptoms of fibromyalgia is pain. As already mentioned, the pain of fibromyalgia is not caused by tissue inflammation. Instead, these patients seem to be an increased sensitivity to many different sensory stimuli and have an unusually low pain threshold. Minor sensory stimuli that would not normally lead to pain in [...]

Fibromyalgia Syndrome is a chronic disease that causes pain, stiffness and tenderness of the muscles, tendons and joints. Fibromyalgia is also restless sleep, awakening tired, chronicfatigue from anxiety, depression and disturbances in bowel function. Fibromyalgia is sometimes called FMS [...]