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Unveiling the Hidden Symptoms of Fibromyalgia in Women: What You Need to Know

Understanding Fibromyalgia: A Brief Overview Fibromyalgia is a complex and chronic condition primarily characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, sleep issues, and cognitive difficulties. To understand fibromyalgia symptoms in females, it is crucial to recognize that the condition affects different individuals in diverse ways. While the intense pain and exhaustion are commonly acknowledged symptoms, fibromyalgia […]

Does Cold Weather Make Fibromyalgia Worse?

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Introduction to Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and tenderness in localized areas. This disorder affects the way the brain processes pain signals, leading to an increased perception of pain in the body. Other common symptoms include sleep disturbances, cognitive difficulties termed “fibro fog,” headaches, and mood disorders […]

When Fibromyalgia Affects Your Sleep

One major symptom of fibromyalgia is chronic fatigue. You’re often in a daze, drifting through the fibro fog, feeling utterly exhausted. When someone with fibromyalgia says they’re tired, it’s not like when you stay up a bit late to watch a movie. It’s the fatigue that comes with having the flu, fatigue that affects your […]

7 Severe Diseases Associated With Fibromyalgia. Probably You are not Aware

About 10 million Americans have fibromyalgia, which is characterized by painful, tender points along the body; fatigue; sleeplessness; and cognitive issues known as fibro fog. Unfortunately, people with fibromyalgia are more likely than people in the general population to have certain other conditions too. If you have fibromyalgia, here are seven other health concerns. Migraines […]

72 Symptoms of Fibromyalgia (Hard to Believe). What are yours?

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You’ve probably read about fibromyalgia symptoms such as pain, fatigue, and fibro fog, but the list of possible symptoms is far-reaching and body-wide. Those tiny lists don’t even begin to describe our experience! I put together this “monster list” of 60+ symptoms to let you know that you’re not alone! The list is adapted from […]

Thank You, Fibromyalgia

Dear fibromyalgia, Thank you for being an jerk, for punishing me when I try to do things like everybody else. For making me waste away the day in bed, trying desperately to get comfortable, and yet never truly achieving it. For making me so exhausted that walking to the bathroom feels like running a marathon. For […]

Marijuana Chewing Gum is Said to Relieve Fibromyalgia Pain

After numerous studies confirming that cannabis oil can help treat inflammation, chronic pain, seizures, and much more, another newly published study discovered that getting cannabis treatment for a year can improve function, pain, cognitive function, and quality of life in patients with chronic pain. In the case of fibromyalgia, a lot of patients prefer taking medical […]

When you’re in constant pain and nobody believes you

Jennifer Brea was 28 when she found herself unable to finish a short bike ride or run — she’d head home halfway through and sleep for hours. “I kind of thought, ‘Oh, maybe I’m just getting older,’” says the director and star of the new documentary “Unrest.” “I was only 28, and I was like, […]

NERVE DAMAGE AFFECTING THE LUNGS IN FIBROMYALGIA : NEW STUDY

By: Cort, The dysautonomia in FM patients can be characterized by unrelenting sympathetic hyperactivity throughout the day associated with a deranged sympathetic response to different stressors. The authors The autonomic nervous system (ANS) appears to be the subject of the week for Health Rising. This study combines the autonomic nervous system with lung functioning – an issue that […]

Weed Chewing Gum to treat Fibromyalgia Pain.Would You Try This?

  Any individual who knows somebody who experiences fibromyalgia or who suffers from it themselves knows how inconceivably excruciating and persistent this malady can be. Gratefully, as more individuals wind up plainly mindful of this sickness, more research endeavors are being redirected into discovering a compelling treatment or cure. The latest of these revelations uncovers […]

5 Things You Didn’t Know about Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is still like a black box, where most do not know much about it. Up till now, it is still incurable with no proven method to fix it. There are certain pharmaceutical medications that are being prescribed to help with the symptoms but it is always NOT recommended to take them. They always come […]

Costochondritis in Fibromyalgia

People with fibromyalgia are also susceptible to having pain in the chest, a condition known as Costochondritis. The chest pain can range from mild annoyance to excruciating pain described as being similar to a heart attack. What is Costochondritis? Costochondritis is basically an inflammation of the cartilage that links your ribs to the breast bone, […]

It’s Not Fibromyalgia: My Toxic Mold Illness

  I stood in my closet this morning, looking around as though I’d never been there. I couldn’t remember what I was doing, why, or what I should do next. So I stood still, waiting for it to come to me. Moments before I had been violently panting like a wild animal, bent over in […]

7 Conditions Often Mistaken for Fibromyalgia

It’s not at all unusual for fibromyalgia to be misdiagnosed as another condition and vice versa, as symptoms of fibromyalgia are similar to that of other illnesses. Also, there are no lab tests to definitively identify fibromyalgia. Here are seven conditions commonly mistaken for fibromyalgia.   Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ME/CFS is the condition that is […]