Fibromyalgia syndrome is an incurable chronic and long term condition with symptoms including widespread pain and pain in the tender points, fatigue, headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, inability to get refreshing sleep, waking up tired and stiff and developing cognitive disturbances including lack of concentration and clumsiness, dizziness etc. Patients with this syndrome are extremely sensitivity…

Nowadays there are many options available to handle problems with fibromyalgia. We can easily find various forums online where people share their day to day experiences and that becomes helpful for another person who come across such situation. If your loved one is suffering from the symptoms of fibromyalgia, there are various ways in which…

What Is Fibromyalgia? Fibromyalgia causes many sufferers to experience significant pain, and the condition can be disabling. Typically, the pain only occurs at certain points on the body. Doctors still don’t fully understand the causes of fibromyalgia. However, there are certain factors that can make you more likely to develop it. Some examples of risk factors…

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that involves frequent and recurring body pain. It can be diagnosed in different ways and affects each person differently as the pain levels can vary. Along with the condition is an increased chance of developing other types of conditions, such as Costochondritis. Costochondritis can occur in people who already suffer…

On this World Day Against Pain, Professor Serge Perrot, rheumatologist at the Cochin Hospital in Paris, refuses the term “unexplained pain”. Serge Perrot, rheumatologist, is in charge of the pain center of the Cochin hospital (AP-HP) in Paris and author of “The pain, I get out of it” (Ed In Press). On this world day of…

This combined MR/PET image highlights areas of the brain in which patients with fibromyalgia were found to have increased glial activation, compared with unaffected control volunteers. Credit: Marco Loggia, PhD, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital). A study by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers – collaborating with a team at the Karolinska Institutet…

Hand Pain And Fibromyalgia Do you have pain in your hand and fibromyalgia? Pain in the extremities is common in fibromyalgia and is sometimes overlooked due to the other common areas of fibro body pain. It can be difficult to distinguish the difference between pain that is caused by fibromyalgia, nerve pain or pain that is derived from…

For most living with fibromyalgia it takes many years to come to grips with the fact that the person you once were eventually dies and a new version of the person is reborn. The checklist of what fibromyalgia steals from you mentally and physically seems to grow longer with each passing day. Early on in…

You have probably read about the symptoms of fibromyalgia, such as pain, fatigue and haze, but the list of possible symptoms is powerful and throughout the body. Those little lists do not even begin to describe our experience! I mounted this “monster list” of more than 60 symptoms to let you know that you are  not  alone! The list is…

Fibromyalgia is the second most common rheumatic disorder behind osteoarthritis and, though still widely misunderstood, is now considered to be a lifelong central nervous system disorder, which is responsible for amplified pain that shoots through the body in those who suffer from it. Daniel Clauw, M.D., professor of anesthesiology, University of Michigan, analyzed the neurological…