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- Tiredness, fatigue and loss of stamina are generally tell tale signs of fibromyalgia
- Pain in the neck, back and limbs.
- This pain will start increasing during the curse of the day. You might also sense stiffness.
- Your sense of tiredness and lack of energy will interfere with your normal schedule.
- You might experience poor concentration, headache, irritability, depression and poor memory.
- Inability to hold your bladder
- Abdominal pain and diarrhea
- Fibromyalgia is a functional disturbance which implies that its causes cannot purely be categorized as being physical or mental.
- Both the person's mind as well as body is involved in this ailment.
- Sleep being vital to both the good health of the body as well as the mind, it comes as no surprise that a major cause of fibromyalgia is sleep disorders.
- If a person has more light sleep than deep sleep then he is likely to be inflicted by Fibromyalgia.
- Any stress that the person is feeling might interfere with his/her deep or restorative sleep and therefore end up in fibromyalgia.
- Sleeping in uncomfortable positions and places could also be a leading cause of this disease.
- Once fibromyalgia sets in, it becomes a vicious cycle; since the person now already afflicted by pain loses sleep as a result of which his/her condition automatically intensifies the condition.
- Exercises have been arrived upon as the best medication for fibromyalgia.
- Exercises that increase blood circulation in your system by making you breathe harder will help alleviate the situation to a great extent. Swimming and brisk walks therefore are extremely helpful in these situations.
- Paracetamol and anti depressants can also be taken by your doctor's advice.
Fibromyalgia
What is fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia is a common condition. However it can get severe enough to start intruding into your day to day life. Fibromyalgia literally means, fibrous tissues (fibro-) and the muscles (-my-) being affected by pain (-algia). In this disease the whole body feels affected since the tendons and the ligaments both get affected. Fibromyalgia in fact affects the muscles and not the joints at all. Also, this form of arthritis never causes permanent damage to tissues though the symptoms may last for months or years.
Fibromyalgia does not have any outward manifestation; therefore others might not understand your physical pain and tiredness. In the past fibromyalgia, was diagnosed as a form of rheumatism or generally also wrongly diagnosed as being a degenerative joint disease. It is only recently that we have a clearer picture of fibromyalgia. Subsequently medical practitioners have also streamlined various symptoms, signs and therapies specially suited to fibromyalgia. Tennis elbow is a localized condition of this same disease. Fibromyalgia however can lead to tenderness in various points of the body.