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Fibromyalgia - Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

Fibromyalgia is a chronic syndrome with symptoms from joints, tendons and muscles like pain and stiffness and with general symptoms like fatigue, sleep problems and depression.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic syndrome with symptoms from joints, tendons and muscles like pain and stiffness and with general symptoms like fatigue, sleep problems and depression.

 

Fibromyalgia is a chronic disease giving painful points in muscles and joint areas, stiffness and problems of neurological art like fatigue, sleep difficulties, depression of various degree, dizziness and anxiety. The neck, shoulder area, hips, knee surroundings, jaw joints, head, face, and eye surroundings are especially often affected by tender spots. When the neck and head area is affected, the pain often takes the form of a common headache.

In addition a lot of other symptoms can occur: . Disturbed function of the colon causing diarrhoea, constipation, stomach pain and bloating - Irritable bladder and frequent urge to urinate - Increased sensitivity to sensorial stimuli, like light, sounds and touch - Dryness inĀ  mouth, eyes and skin - Painful menstruation

The disease develops gradually and can affect great parts of the body. It is chronic, but may give better and worse periods. The disorder can vary from mild to severe and delibitating. Fibromyalgia occurs in 3% to 6% of the general population, and is most commonly diagnosed in individuals between the ages of 20 and 50, though onset can occur in childhood.

By fibromyalgia there are no distinct inflammation or anatomical changes. However one have recently found out that sufferers can have wider shunts between veins and arteries in the skin than the average population, and that persons with fibromyalgia tend to have blood seum reacting differently to immunological tests than non-sufferers and sufferers of other rheumatic disorders.

Fibromyalgia is traditionally diagnosed by concidering functional symptoms when these have persisted for a longer time. By now a quick blood test to detect the specific immunological reactions can be used to suggest fibromyalgia.

It is not yet well understood how fibromyalgia is caused. Sometimes the upper part of the spinal region has suffered an injury. Sometimes there have been bacterial and viral infections before the first symptoms appear, and sometimes the sufferer has endured hard psycological trauma before the onset. Fibromyalgia sufferers also often have too less magnesium in their body. The initial factors may cause an autoimmune reaction towards the nervous and hormonal system. Then there seems to occur a disturbed production of neurotransmitters and hormons, especially serotonin and melatonin, combined with specific psycosomatical reactions, including muscular tension.

There is no well-working medication for fibromyalgia, allthough pain, insomnia and psychological symptoms can be trated with medicines that alleviate the symptoms, but these drugs always carry a risk.

A systematic daily training regime is a good treatment for fibromyalgia. The regime must contain training for muscular strength, condition and flexibility. One begins gradually and increases the intensity and duration of the training step by step. Yoga is a good method of flexibility traing by this condition.

Physiological treatment like massage, warm baths and chiropractics can be of good value. Psycological councelling to help coping with the symptoms on a daily basis can be valuable. Relaxation training and meditation can be of great help to relieve many of the symptoms.

Must sufferers form fibromyalgia should eat a healthy diet consisting of fully nutritious food without additives, without pollution and without such ingredients that trigger inflammation. Such diet wil strengthen the mental and physical abilities so that one does not so easily get exhausted, and it will not trigger autoimmune reactions.

The diet should include food sources like vegetables, fruit, full corn bread or cereals, nuts, almonds, fish, seafood, fouls and mushrooms.

You should avoid great amounts of fat meat, fat cheese or saturated fat from milk and red meat. One should also avoid great amounts of soy oil or corn oil. One should not use margarine and avoid food containing chemically altered fat.

You should consume fish oil, olive oil, rape oil, canola oil, nut oil and sunflower oil, or food containing these type of fat like olives, nuts, sunflower seeds and fat fish, because the fat you then consume will decrease inflammatory reactions in the muscles and joint areas. But use a combination of several of these types of fat, so that you do not get too much of only one fat type.

Sufferers often report improvement by the use of natural supplements of vitamins, minerals andtioxydants and adptogenic herbs, like Magnesium, 5-HTP , Melatonin, Rhodiola rosea and Ginger Root. Such supplements are found on the market, and some of them are made especially for sufferers of fibromyalgia.

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