fibromyalgia syndrome

fibromyalgia syndrome

fibromyalgia syndrome is a disorder of unknown cause characterized by chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain

for most patients, fibromyalgia syndrome is usually accompanied by fatigue feeling tired sleep disturbances gastrointestinal complaints and emotional stress problems.

Fibromyalgia syndrome is very similar to chronic fatigue syndrome or CFS. The main difference between both problems it’s that fibromyalgia syndrome patients complain of pain in various parts of the body while patients who have chronic fatigue syndrome a tired most of the time.

Some patients say they have both fibromyalgia syndromes and chronic fatigue syndromes symptoms. In other words, their pain all over their body and they’re tired all the time. In this case, the medical community has another name what the problem they call this Central sensitization syndrome, or CSS is. Patients who have Central sensitization syndrome have an overlap of both fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms, but they also have sensory problems.

Central sensitization syndrome patients who have sensory problems experience hyperalgesia and allodynia.

When you have allodynia, a light touch or a wind blowing across your arm or legs may feel uncomfortable or even irritating. The patient’s know they should not be as sensitive to such a light touch, but they actually feel it and may even think that they are going crazy.

Patients who have hyperalgesia feels a sensation that it’s more than it what is supposed to be. for example a light pressure of a thumb may feel more like a pinch or a little toothpick place on the skin may feel like a needle injection into it.

according to the American college of rheumatology, patients are fibromyalgic:

when they have widespread pain for more than three months.

There is no real beneficial lab testing for the diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome.

have about 11 out of 18 tender points in the body, in other words, some of these patients say they have aches all over their body

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So how do you know you have fibromyalgia?

Fatigue

Hurts all over

Post exertion malaise

Brain Fog – symptoms lapses of memory loss, reduced focus and clarity

Digestive Complaints IBS 8/10

Always Sleep Issues

Feels like flu that didn’t go away

Basally no energy

Symptoms worsen with stress

Who gets fibromyalgia?

Most females can be of any age

Usually a trigger viral infection, stress, flu, frequent use of antibiotics, some physical trauma like a motor vehicle accident

sympathetic upregulation – symptoms gets worse with increase stressful situations or events

Trigger point injections

Drugs temporary or ineffective: Anti-depressants (amitriptyline, Cymbalta, Gabapentin, Tramadol. Ativan, injections for trigger points.

Mitochondria produces ATP which need oxygen

Poor recovery

there are about 1500 per muscle cell need glucose ribose magnesium ubiquinol acetyl-carnitine

May have inadequate protein intake check their diet