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Article #123: An Overview of Fibromyalgia

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Fibromyalgia is a chronic and common and tingling in hands, arms, feet, legs
disease that affects 2-4% people of total or face. * Abdominal pain. *
world population. Although the cause Bloating. * Long lasting morning
behind this disease is unknown till date, stiffness * Constipation. *
but the syndromes are very well known. It Diarrhoea. * Fatigue that interferes
is very painful for the people suffering with work and daily activities. *
from this disease. The pain is widespread Sleep problems (difficulty falling or
and produces a fatigue disorder. This staying asleep, waking up feeling tired).
disease mostly affects muscles, In addition of those symptoms
ligaments, tendons and other soft fibres fibromyalgia patients often feels anxiety
in the body; as a consequence patients along with depression. They feel
feel the pain in the muscle joint areas lethargic and may feel frustrated in
of body, such as neck, shoulder, elbow their life. This depression often leads
and heap. them to commit suicide.
Some experts take it as a special form of Women may also face problems in their
arthritis but the fact is the affected periods and suffer from other feminine
muscles in the body are not deformed like diseases.
arthritis cases. Fibromyalgia is some In a recent research it is found that
sort of neuro-muscular pain, which women are more affected than men. It is a
affects the musculoskeletal schema of common phenomenon that women lacks
human body. Patients can suffer from the calcium a bit more than men, this may be
following symptoms: the reason behind that.
* Widespread pain for more than 3 months. Fibromyalgia disturbs sleep; this leads
* Tenderness in the neck, shoulder, to mental weakness and often causes
knee, elbow, or upper buttocks or thigh mental disorder. The cause behind this
areas. * Trouble sleeping. * disease is still mystery but the
Tiredness in the morning or late in the resultant effects are very acute. It
day. * Mood changes. * generally affects people of any age, some
Irritable bowel syndrome. * experts have revealed that after a
Headaches, sometimes migraines. * traumatic disease or a massive flue
Difficulty concentrating. * Numbness fibromyalgia may starts.






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