| Fibromyalgia is known as a disease which mostly | | | | Some of the patients can feel depressed and |
| manifests with widespread muscle pains and | | | | develop mood changes, other patients complain |
| tender spots. People describe the muscle pain in | | | | about anxiety and difficulty in concentration along |
| different ways: some can feel burnings, radiating, | | | | with sensitivity to light and temperature. |
| others gnawing, sore, stiff, and aching. Patients | | | | It seems that these people have been suffering |
| say that the pain is always present but with | | | | before of depression or anxiety and some of |
| different intensities depending on the activity they | | | | them have been also been abused or neglected |
| perform or on the weather, the stress level and | | | | during their life. It is important to discuss about |
| the sleep patterns. Fibromyalgia pains can even be | | | | these things with the doctor because an |
| resembled with the muscle pains from flu. Also | | | | improvement in the symptoms might be |
| the tiredness and fatigue present in flu are met in | | | | registered after and the patient will cope with the |
| fibromyalgia too. | | | | illness much easier after having such a discussion. |
| Some patients complain about the fact that they | | | | Another problem that appears once fibromyalgia |
| are tired even after sleeping for the whole night. | | | | installed is that patients complain that they can |
| Others say that they wake up during the night | | | | not perform simple mental tasks any more. Some |
| more frequent than they did before the disease | | | | say that they can not concentrate as well as |
| had installed. Doctors say that an interruption | | | | before. The doctors say that all these matters |
| during the deep sleep can cause the tiredness | | | | are as a result of sleeping disturbances given by |
| patients complain of. | | | | fibromyalgia. |
| The fatigue most people feel quite alike with that | | | | General symptoms of fibromyalgia are: muscle |
| encountered in the chronic fatigue syndrome | | | | pain that lasts more than three months, |
| (CFS). Those who suffer of CFS can also have | | | | tenderness in the 18 points, sleeping problems, |
| symptoms of fibromyalgia like the tender spots. | | | | fatigue, headaches, abdominal pain associated with |
| Diagnosing fibromyalgia is made after eliminating | | | | diarrhea or constipation and bloating. Also, |
| other diseases that can manifest alike and after | | | | paresthesia or tingling in hands, arms, feet, legs or |
| inquiring about the tender spots and their location. | | | | face can be present. Because these symptoms |
| There are known 18 tender spots that can be | | | | are found in other neuromuscular diseases, like |
| painful in fibromyalgia and most are situated | | | | carpal tunnel syndrome, neuritis, or even multiple |
| around the neck, shoulders, shoulder blades, lower | | | | sclerosis, tests for fibromyalgia can be ordered. |
| back, elbows and knees. | | | | |