Fibromyalgia

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Fibromyalgia
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Fibromyalgia

• Fibromyalgia is chronic neurological disorder
  that involves widespread pain, tenderness,
  fatigue, and other symptoms. This condition is
  common in middle-aged women but it can affect
  patients of either sex or at any age. 2-4 of
  people can be affected by fibromyalgia. The term
  fibromyalgia means pain in muscles and fibrous
  tissues.Fibromyalgia is still considered a
  medically small disorder, as it does not cause
  any serious problem or physical deformities, or
  loss of life.But it has a major effect on the
  quality of life of the patient because it
  interferes with a persons ability to perform
  daily activities and affects cognitive
  functioning like the ability to think, to reason,
  to remember.The diagnosis can be made with
  careful examination and exclusion of other
  diseases having similar symptoms. There is no
  cure for the fibromyalgia support from doctors
  can provide positive effects on patients quality
  of life.

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Causes of fibromyalgia

• The exact cause of fibromyalgia is not clear. It
  is not an autoimmune, inflammatory, joint, or
  muscle disorder though some factors like spine
  problem, arthritis, injury, or other type of
  physical stress even emotional stress may trigger
  this illness.More recently, fibromyalgia has
  been described as central pain amplification
  disorder, meaning the volume of pain sensation
  in the brain is turned up too high.There is
  abnormal pain processing specifically in the
  central nervous system rather than from
  dysfunction in peripheral tissues where pain is
  perceived. There is a change in the way the body
  communicates with the spinal cord and brain.

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• Though genes alone do not cause fibromyalgia,
  but there may be certain genes that can make
  people more prone to getting fibromyalgia.
  Fibromyalgia may run in families.

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Diagnosis of fibromyalgia

• There is no diagnostic test available for
  fibromyalgia therefore disease is diagnosed by
  checking the patient, evaluating symptoms, and
  extracting other conditions.There are some
  conditions that can be confused with fibromyalgia
  like hypothyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis,
  systemic lupus erythematosus, polymyalgia
  rheumatica and other inflammatory and autoimmune
  disorders.A fibromyalgia diagnosis is often
  made when a patient has unexplained pain for at
  least 3 months and at least 11 of 18 tender
  points in specific locations are tender and no
  other health problem is detected that could
  explain the pain and other symptoms.

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• These tender points should not be confused with
  trigger points, which are associated with chronic
  myofascial pain. The primary difference between
  tender points and trigger points is that trigger
  points can produce referred pain (they can cause
  pain in other parts of the body).

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Treatment of fibromyalgia

• Treatment of fibromyalgia involves a combination
  of medications, stress management, exercise and
  rest with enough sleep. There is no cure for
  fibromyalgia.However, symptoms can be treated
  with both non-drug measures and medication based
  treatments. Many times the best outcomes are
  achieved by using multiple types of treatments.

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