The first step in getting suspected fibromyalgia diagnosed is to find a physician, nurse practitioner or other health care provider who is knowledgeable and compassionate. Maybe it should be the other way around: compassionate and knowledgeable.
Although the causes of fibromyalgia are unknown, its sources of pain, called “trigger points,” are not. These are multiple tender points on the body. In making a clinical diagnosis, a physician confirms the presence of fibromyalgia trigger points on at least eleven out of eighteen parts of the body. These painful areas are typically located [...]
If you suffer from the painful and debilitating symptoms of fibromyalgia, chances are you have a knowledgeable physician who is treating your symptoms with a variety of medications and behavior modification that helps bring relief. However, medical studies conducted in the past decade suggest that certain supplements and herbs also bring relief from fibromyalgia symptoms.
Suffering from this uncomfortable and often debilitating syndrome is difficult enough. But when a woman faces both fibromyalgia and pregnancy, the physical challenge can be sometimes overwhelming.
Anyone who suffers from fibromyalgia is constantly aware of the debilitating chronic pain that comes from the 18 trigger points on the body; some of these points are more painful than others, but they are all sources of moderate to intense pain.
Fibromyalgia is a serious and painful disorder, affecting only two to four percent of the population. Some of the common symptoms of fibromyalgia are extreme fatigue, chromic pain in the muscles, stiffness in the morning, and waking up without feeling refreshed.
Plain and simple, the cause of fibromyalgia is unknown. Without an identified cause of this syndrome, it technically has no cure. The many symptoms can be treated effectively, but fibromyalgia in its entire clinical picture rarely goes into spontaneous remission. The causes of fibromyalgia theories abound in the medical research and literature, each one a [...]