| If you are one of the unfortunate people who | | | | fatigue, generalized morning stiffness, and |
| have fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), it may be | | | | non-refreshing sleep. |
| time to take a serious look at your mattress. | | | | If ever there were a reason to try a memory |
| FMS is a true syndrome, it's specific, chronic | | | | foam mattress, this condition would warrant it. If |
| non-degenerative, non-progressive, and a truly | | | | you even so much as suspect that this is what |
| systemic pain condition formally recognized by the | | | | you might be experiencing, the biggest favor you |
| American Medical Association (AMA) in 1987. It's | | | | could do yourself would be to get onto a |
| essential symptom, as most sufferers will tell you, | | | | memory foam structure and off of traditional |
| is pain. If you're an older patient, it's pain, fatigue, | | | | spring mattresses. Nothing can aggrevate this kind |
| and depression. In younger people, there may also | | | | of pain more that sleeping on mattress |
| be discomfort after minimal exercise, slight | | | | construction that uses coil and tension, no matter |
| variations in body temperature, like low-grade | | | | how well-padded it may be. With memory foam |
| fever or slightly below normal temperature, and a | | | | your body will warm the foam where it needs to |
| high degree of skin sensitivity. No blood test can | | | | "sink in". No force pushes back, as would from a |
| accurately diagnose it, but blood tests can rule out | | | | coil mattress. |
| other conditions, your physician will know best. | | | | Old coils in mattresses can become "sprung" after |
| The Copenhagen Declaration established | | | | many years of use, making any mattress pad |
| fibromyalgia as a formal, official syndrome for the | | | | ineffective. They also can sag in the middle. In all, |
| World Health Organization in 1993, and defines it | | | | a very uncomfortable situation for an FMS |
| as a painful (but not present in the joints) | | | | sufferer. Memory foam can feel good even when |
| condition predominantly involving muscles and the | | | | placed on the floor! Rest is a critical need of FMS |
| most common cause of chronic widespread | | | | patients, so if you suffer from this condition, |
| musculoskeletal pain. It is also characterized by | | | | investigate trying a memory foam mattress. |
| unexplained widespread pain or aching, ongoing | | | | |