Not Registered?
Fibromyalgia seems to be one of those "catch-all" conditions. The term refers to muscle pain and inflammation of fibrous connective tissue of the joints, tendons, and ligaments.
Supposedly, it can be caused by a wide variety of circumstances including exposure to dampness or cold, viruses, bacteria, toxemia, trauma, and…
The term "fibromyalgia" only entered the official medical lexicon in 1990, but it was first described long before that. An 1843 medical text referred to it as "rheumatism with hard places." Most doctors today are baffled by fibromyalgia, and many dismiss the label altogether, telling sufferers that the pain…
Fibromyalgia, once dismissed by many doctors as "neurotic malingering," is now recognized as a health disorder affecting five million Americans, most of them women. The common symptoms of this debilitating disorder are chronic pain, fatigue, and sleep disorder. Often it strikes women a year after a complete hysterectomy or…
Living with fibromyalgia can be extremely frustrating. An article published in the Medical Tribune summed up the dilemma very well with the headline, "Fibromyalgia: Hard to Define, Hard to Treat." According to this review, fibromyalgia affects as many as five million Americans, most of them women, and adds $47…
Fibromyalgia, which affects five million Americans, has the conventional medical community completely flummoxed. What most docs try to do, with a stack of harsh prescriptions, is dull your senses so you feel little and care even less; they honestly don’t know what else to offer. But for every year you…
