Fibromyalgia diagnosis, medications and fibromyalgia stress

Fibromyalgia syndrome is chronic disorder that is quite common. The disorder is characterised by fatigue, widespread muscle pain, and multiple tender points. Tender points are specific locations on the body like the neck, back, shoulders, hips, and lower and upper extremities.


They are referred to as tender points because people suffering from the condition feel pain in these regions in response to even slight pressure.

Symptoms of the disorder generally have a slow onset, with many patients displaying mild symptoms right from their childhood, which are often misdiagnosed. Symptoms are at times aggravated by weather conditions or unrelated illness.


The symptoms may become more tolerable or just more debilitating as the weather changes throughout the year, with almost every patient suffering from the disorder having such experiences. The most defining symptoms of the disorder are a chronic, widespread pain with a tenderness to light touch. Other common symptoms are moderate to severe fatigue, heightened sensitivity with pain even from a gentle touch, tingling sensation in the skin, functional bowel disturbances, prolonged muscle spasms, muscle aches, nerve pain, weakness in the limbs and chronic sleep disturbances. Unlike rheumatoid arthritis, where there is inflammation that is addressed with anti inflammatory drugs, there is no inflammation caused by fibromyalgia.