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Symptoms & Signs of Fibromyalgia

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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 sle...

5 Tips for Getting Better Sleep With Arthritis

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When it comes to getting a good night's sleep, it can be tough. The normal stresses of everyday living, blue light and screen time at night, staying up too late, not getting quality sleep, waking up too early, and more can all contribute to making a decent night of sleep difficult to achieve. Add into the sleep equation some arthritis pain , and you might end up finding that you are situated on the sleep equation's short end more often than you would like. Pain-Sleep Connection You may not know it (or maybe you do), but sleep and pain are actually closely connected. When you experience pain throughout the daytime, it can affect the quality of sleep that you get at night for the worse. A bad night of sleep can also have a relationship with the pain and even increase it the following day. In order to go into sleep mode, the body and the mind must be able to gradually calm down. That can be tough to accomplish when you're actively feeling pai...