Symptoms & Signs of Fibromyalgia


What are the main signs of fibromyalgia?

When it comes to fibromyalgia, the most common symptom that people experience is pain. The main side effect is believe to occur because of an increased sensitivity when it comes to pain stimuli.

Pain can be caused as well by a variety of situations. These could be changes in the weather, various noises, and even stress. However, pain can also pop up totally unrelated to outside events too.

With this condition, pain characteristically will show up in physical areas of the body that include the chest, arms, upper back, shoulders, neck, and buttocks.

Localized areas,  called tender points, in the body might be tender when you touch them lightly as well. These are found in the hips, knees, shoulders, elbows, breastbone sides, and back of your head.

What are other symptoms that are associated with having fibromyalgia?
  • Being tired, having malaise, being fatigued
  • Having poor quality or disturbances in your sleep
  • Experiencing a migraine
  • Tingling or a numb feeling in your hands or feet, or body parts
  • An irritable bladder
An irritable bladder means that you are urinating frequently (more than normal) or experiencing urination discomfort (medically referred to as 'dysuria'). You may also experience bowel disturbances that occur with IBS, including abdominal pain, diarrhea, mood changes, irritability, depression, feeling nervous, being forgetful, being unable to concentrate, or anxiety.


Fibromyalgia Causes

Fibromyalgia may also be caused by genetics. Stress doesn't cause this condition. However, symptoms can occur after going through events that are stressful. These can be emotional events, traumatic events, physically stressful events like car accidents, or even medical stresses.

Symptoms are believed to be caused from abnormalities in the way that the brain/spinal cord together process the sensations of pain. This may result in the threshold that stimuli do cause discomfort or pain being lowered for those that have fibromyalgia. Additionally, pain can be even more intense due to abnormalities in pain processing and your central nervous system.
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