Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is a illness characterized by chronic pain in the muscles and soft tissues surrounding joints, tenderness at specific sites in the body, and fatigue. This illness is hard to diagnosis for doctors because there are no tests; plus, the symptoms are the same as arthritis and osteoporosis. Symptoms include stiffness, aches, pain, tiredness and sleep disturbance. Symptoms are referred to as deep muscle pain that feels like burning, shooting and aching, but not everyone has the same symptoms. People with fibromyalgia may also be sensitive to light temperature.

Fibromyalgia has been studied since the 1800s, when the doctors thought it was a mental disorder and called it muscular rheumatism. To described the chronic and crippling pain, it was later named fibrositis. Some tender points are the front/back of the neck, upper chest, elbows, hips and the knees. The cause for this illness is still unknown and there's no cure, but the treatments are pin-pointed at the symptoms the person is suffering from. There are many different types of medicines prescribed by doctors for fibromyalgia.

Females are affected by it more than males, and individuals are usually diagnosed between the ages 20 and 50. People with fibromyalgia usually get it through genetics, accidents, injuries, infections and autoimmune disorders. When the pain gets to bad the person should walk, jog, do some water aerobics and stationary bicycling to ease that pain. There are treatment centers for people to go to. Seek help to get a better understanding of this disorder if you or someone you know has fibromyalgia.