Post from Chronicle Herald

This is a post I found today in the Chronicle Herald


"Fibromyalgia sufferers can fight back TARA PATRIQUIN

FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME (FMS) causes chronic pain in muscles, ligaments and tendons. But what causes FMS is another story. It is a mysterious syndrome, affecting four-times more women than men, with no apparent physical cause.
Some of the more obvious factors that are considered likely to be causes include injuries, accidents, surgeries, other illness or infections that compromise the immune system, and stress.
While there are no specific diagnostic tests to label this disease with 100 per cent certainty, it can affect nearly every part of the body. So when testing for it, doctors will check 18 tender points. The majority of these points cluster around the upper body including the neck, shoulders, chest, elbows and mid back. The lower body gets attention around the hips, thighs and buttocks.
Some associated symptoms with fibromyalgia include irritable bowel and/or bladder, strange sensations of the skin, headaches, insomnia, TMJ, dizziness, sleep disorders, chronic fatigue, digestive upset and malabsorption, anxiety or memory impairment.
To further complicate things, the correlation between FMS and its "symptom" of depression, is a little blurry.
The question remains, which came first? The chicken or the egg? "

The article goes on to say that sufferers can deal with Fibromyalgia and fight back with diet, exercise, and healthy lifestyles and alternative medicine. To find out more about this approach, we have the information at www.ridfibromyalgia.com.