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Fibromyalgia is a chronic illness that causes immense physical pain and debilitating fatigue for those diagnosed with it. Classified as a syndrome, fibromyalgia is not a disease and is not contagious. Instead, it is a condition that causes many different symptoms that affect all systems throughout the body. Fibromyalgia plagues up to 5% of the general population with over 6 million sufferers in the United States alone. The name fibromyalgia comes from “fibro” meaning fibrous tissue (such as tendons and ligaments), “my” meaning muscles, and “algia” meaning pain.

The Pain of It All
Fibromyalgia’s most common symptom is widespread musculoskeletal pain throughout the body and affects the ligaments, tendons, and muscles. Ligaments are made of tough tissues which attach to the bones in your body. Tendons help to attach muscles to your bones and muscles allow you to stretch and flex various body parts.

Fibromyalgia patients often feel like they are aching all over and have a general soreness; muscles feel sore, stiff, and overworked. Muscle twitches are also common in fibromyalgia which sadly add to the pain of the illness. The muscles can also feel like they are burning and have the sensation of someone holding a hot iron to someone skin.

A Chronic Disorder
A chronic disorder, the pain from fibromyalgia can continue for months and even years. Unfortunately, any type of treatment for fibromyalgia is often difficult to near impossible to come by and many people must suffer in silence. Fibromyalgia pain generally does not worsen over time, and it doesn’t cause inflammation of the internal organs or muscles, unlike lupus. » Continue reading What is Fibromyalgia? »