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Fibromyalgia
An inflammation of the fibrous or connective tissue of the body, Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic widespread pain and a heightened and painful response to pressure, along with fatigue and joint stiffness. There is no recognized cure for fibromyalgia, but some treatments have been demonstrated to be effective in reducing symptoms.
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Do you get pain in your ankles from fibromyalgia?
do you get pain in your ankles from fibromyalgia -yes, all the time. I also have it in my back, legs, feet, arms, and I get migranes.
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Are there varying degrees of fibromyalgia?
Yes. Everyone who has Fibromaylgia is different and may experience symptoms of Fibromyalgia at different degrees. Even a single person will experience different degrees of Fibromyalgia as symptoms may be worse one day than they are the next. Often Fibromyalgia symptoms can change from minute to minute, as they are impacted by a variety of different triggers, including stress and diet.
How much sleep does someone with fibromyalgia need?
A person with fibromyalgia needs as much sleep as anyone else. Eight hours of restful sleep a night is desirable. The problem is that fibromyalgia interferes with the ability to sleep if the person can sleep at all. Insomnia and pain keep the person with fibromyalgia awake during the night. That results in a general feeling of fatigue that lingers throughout the day.
Does fibromyalgia cause tingling sensations throughout the body?
Yes, numbness and tingling are common symptoms of Fibromyalgia. If this is a new symptom for you, you should report it to your doctor.
Does fibromyalgia cause weight gain?
Yes, but indirectly Not only do people who have Fibromyalgia experience pain but they also may shows signs of moderate to severe fatigue. Not all people will experience fatigue but those who do feel like they are in a constant state of lethargy. You can sleep and sleep but the feeling of being tired never seems to go away.
Unfortunately the fibromyalgia fatigue can really affect someone's life in a very negative way. This fibromyalgia fatigue can have a psychological effect such as increased stress, anxiety and even memory loss. It can also have a physiological effect such as preventing a person to exercise thus minimizing the possibility of relieving pain.
What is the best thing to take for fibromyalgia pain if you dont have pain pills?
If you don't have pain pills (I'm assuming you mean opiates), I would try Klonopin, or a muscle relaxer. I find Tylenol and Motrin and Advil, etc to be useless. Or, you could try Cymbalta or Lyrica, which supposedly work for fibromyalgia pain. What really works though, is exercise, and stretching, and ice and warm wraps, and massages, things like that. I know it sucks, I wish a pill would make all the pain go away, but I sure haven't found one.
Why could your mother be taking oramorph and tramadol and be taking pain management courses?
Both of these medications and optional pain management courses are prescribed to patients with fibromyalgia (or fibromyalgia syndrome). It is a condition which causes pain to be felt all over the body for no apparent reason. Fibromyalgia also causes increased sensitivity to touch, fatigue, lack of concentration and sometimes Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). There is a chance your mother is suffering from fibromyalgia. If she hasn't told you, then she is probably scared of upsetting you or worrying you because she cares about you so much. Sit her down in a quiet, private place and calmly talk to her. If she does have fibromyalgia, she should be getting all the help and support she can from family members to make her life easy and painless as possible.
How many people have fibromyalgia in the world?
5 percent of the world's population has fibromyalgia and millions of people remain undiagnosed.
Fibromyalgia is chronic pain in muscles and the fibrous tissue that surrounds them true or false?
true
What month is fibromyalgia month?
May is National Fibromyalgia Awareness Month. May 12 is National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day.
Are fibromyalgia vitamins good for you?
Fibromyalgia is not a vitamin, it is a disease. It is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation of the joints. There is no cure and doctors do not know what causes a person to develop it. It causes chronic pain, so no, it's not good for you.
You have fibromyalgia is there any exercise you can do to lose weight without being in pain?
A lot of exercises like gentle stretching, slow walking, mild aerobics, and water aerobics. Anything considered low-impact, and at a slower rate works. In order to lose weight, you don't necessarily need to be working out vigorously. Anytime type of movement uses calories. It may take longer to lose weight this way, but still possible.
Can you be born with fibromyalgia?
I think that I may have been born with it. I cried a lot when I was a baby (I believe because I was in pain) and my mother had a lot of trouble getting me to sleep compared to the trouble she had with all my brothers and sisters (disordered sleep right from the start). I kept on bringing up food and was very colicky, and I did not like being touched even as a small child, because it hurt so much. I have always had trouble sleeping and have always had really bad, unexplainable pains. I was always getting sick with pneumonia and the flu, but many times I was sick with no observable cause - I couldn't go to school often but the doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. I have always been hypersensitive to everything - touch, light, taste, noise, emotions. My symptoms got worse and worse until I was eventually diagnosed with fibromyalgia at the age of 16. I'm almost 19 now and I still have FMS, but I do manage it with lifestyle.
Can Fibromyalgia turn into bone cancer?
No. Fibormyaliga is not cancer and can not turn into cancer. Those are very different issues. Fibromyalgia can co-exist with any number of other disorders or diseases.
What is mild hypertrophic degenerative?
Mild hypertrophic degeneration refers to a degeneration of the facet joints in the spine. Facet joints help support the spine and give it flexibility.
What type of fibromyalgia supplements are normal for a chronic condition?
There are prescriptions medications like Lyrica available to treat Fibromyalgia. In addition, some safe supplements include St. John's Wort, Melatonin and Sam-E.
I suffer from the same condition and limitations. Sorry to say i have not found anything for relief except try to limit any activity to no longer than 3 hours followed by rest. ------------------------------------------------------
Ibuprofen 800mg will help with any inflammation that my be caused by over exertion. Which over exertion is easy to do with Fibromyalgia. Ultram, tylonol w/ codeine, or Darviset can help with the pain. Finding a doctor to prescribe htis is sometimes hard but not impossible.
Get Rest- Although rest sometimes is hard to accomplish, your body will feel worse without it. Also many times you may feel like this if a storm is coming. Most fibromyalgia patients can tell you 2 days before a rain or snow storm. People with arthritis can do this to but many times it will cripple someone with FM to the point of not being able to get pout of bed. Unfortunately on these days very little helps with the pain, the analgesics I mentioned above with alleviate it some.
This means that the intervertebral disk that sits between your fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae (lower back) has a weakened wall. The weakened wall is allowing the jelly-like center of your disk to push the wall outward (bulge) ever so slightly toward your nerve roots traveling through your spinal canal at this level. Stenosis just means a narrowing of the canal in which your spinal cord (or cauda equina at this level) travels.
Current research has suggested that a bulging disk does not cause pain by compressing nerves, but more likely by sensitizing nerves through local inflammation factors released by damaged cells and cells of the immune system (cytokines). Thus, over time as the inflammation goes down the pain will also go away. Usually, even after the pain is gone the disk bulge or herniation will remain, sometimes contacting nerves or even the spinal cord. It has been suggested that as many as 30% of the population has one or more asymptomatic (non-painful) disk bulges (references 1-3). It is likely a normal part of aging, so unless you are in severe pain don't panic :)
If you are in pain, try a visit to a chiropractor. Spinal manipulation and pain relieving stretches that a doctor of chiropractic can recommend will often relieve the pain associated with a disk bulge with very little risk (references 4-6).
Research is suggesting that unless there are severe neurological issues, surgery is not always good option unless (reference 7) everything else has been tried, and nothing else has worked. Similarly, research suggests that imaging such as MRI is not a great indicator of the need for surgery or severness of a herniation, as as many as 30% of the general public with no back pain at all will have a "herniation" or disk bulge according to MRI (references 1-3). As such, it seems that sometimes what looks on MRI like a painful disk herniation may be a non-painful herniation and it is a different problem altogether that is actually causing the pain.
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There has been no scientific proof that Sam-E helps Fibromyalgia pain. However, anecdotal evidence does seem to indicate that it can help in some cases. It has been shown to ease the pain of Osteoarthritis.
Is there any treatment for Morton neuron disease?
I believe that in can be treated through Cryosurgery
