Living with fibromyalgia means navigating a complex web of widespread pain, profound fatigue, and cognitive challenges that fluctuate in intensity from day to day. For the estimated 4% of the ...

People with fibromyalgia feel pain not because the area that is hurting is damaged or has an injury, but because a problem exists with the way the brain and nervous system process pain from that area.

Many people with fibromyalgia describe the chronic condition as a "bad case of the flu that never goes away," because they have widespread pain, wake up with stiff muscles and experience brain fog, ...

Currently, diagnosis is based on patient history and tender point sensitivity. 18 sites on the body have been classified as "Tender Points" . Extreme sensitivity upon palpation of at least 11 of these ...

Research suggests that the nerve injury itself is to blame. Itch-sensing nerves, much like pain-sensing ones, can go haywire and begin sending excessive or inappropriate signals. This may happen when ...

Aches and pains with no obvious cause? Constantly tired despite getting plenty of rest? If you answer yes to either question, you may have fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome. Or both.

Both myofascial pain syndrome and fibromyalgia cause muscular pain. However, myofascial pain syndrome causes pain in certain areas, compared with fibromyalgia, which causes pain throughout the body.

For years, people with the widespread pain disorder fibromyalgia were told their symptoms were all in their heads, but now the illness is being taken much more seriously with good reason. Folks with ...

Morgan Freeman wears a single black compression glove to manage pain caused by fibromyalgia, a chronic condition he developed ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and fibromyalgia have some similarities. Both are lifelong diseases. There’s no cure. They’re also more common in women. But each affects your body differently. MS is an ...