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“Imagine waking up every morning,” Amy Shephard says, “with a 103-degree fever and flu-like symptoms. Your body aches, you’re exhausted.” Shepherd suffers from fibromyalgia. “I still want to run. But I can’t run anymore, it will cause a flareup.” In 2005, Shepherd was diagnosed with the syndrome that has many doctors and patients scratching their [...]

It’s often misdiagnosed and misunderstood, even by doctors. Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain illness, and it affects about 10 million Americans. You never where its going to show up in your body,” says Marilyn Morrison. “One day its in your wrists, then two days later its in your knees.” Morrison has suffered with fibromyalgia for [...]

You have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. Now you need to focus on the best treatment for Fibromyalgia for you. The good news is that doctors know what is wrong with you. You finally have the reasons why your body hurts all over and you can’t sleep, and you are exhausted during the day even when [...]

If you suffer from fibromyalgia, you know the symptoms: the constant fatigue, the intense muscle pain, and the tender areas of the body.  While this terrible disease is most common in women of childbearing age, there are men with fibromyalgia as well.  This is rare, however.  According to a 1999 study, there is only one [...]

Fibromyalgia is not a fun disorder to suffer through. Anyone who has it or knows someone who does knows that it is painful and very uncomfortable. The symptoms range from pain and soreness in the muscles and bones to feeling drowsy all the time to brain fog and more. There are many symptoms that come [...]

Fibromyalgia affects five percent of the population which is about 6 million people in the United States.  This condition produces intense pain throughout the body of the victim of this awful syndrome.  The people who suffer from fibromyalgia also feel great fatigue and have a difficult time sleeping at night.  These people are very disturbed [...]

Fibromyalgia syndrome affects many people every year, and the causes and cures remain elusive for some of these patients.  Although fibromyalgia syndrome affects so many people, the experts in the medical field have not been able to provide great insight into this condition.  Some people seem to develop fibromyalgia syndrome more readily than others, and [...]

Fibromyalgia is characterized by severe joint and muscle pain, fatigue as well as a number of other symptoms. It usually affects women more than men and is usually passed from person to person through their genetic makeup. If you have fibromyalgia, you have likely spent a long time trying to find fibromyalgia relief. Well, the [...]

Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome can present in a similar enough way to make either one a challenge to diagnose and treat. Currently, there is no definitive way to make a diagnosis of either condition, which means that doctors generally have to compile a bulk of information from the patient to determine what the cause [...]

Many people feel tired throughout the day and they usually attribute it to a lack of sleep. These people will try everything, from changing beds to changing pillows to taking sleeping aides, thinking it has something to do with their quality of sleep that’s causing them to feel so tired throughout the day. However, it [...]

The first question is always the same when a doctor first gives the diagnosis of fibromyalgia: What is fibromyalgia? The problem  as of this writing is the question still remains unanswered. There is no definite answer. In the United States, it is estimated that over 6 million people suffer fibromyalgia.