| It is believed that as much as one in 50 | | | | just come down with the disease |
| people suffer from fibromyalgia. Another | | | | spontaneously. |
| interesting fact about this disease is that | | | | |
| more that 85% of the patients suffering from | | | | Other causes are also thoroughly researched, |
| this disorder are actually women. Still, man | | | | such as problems in the processing of the |
| and children can also be affected. Most of | | | | pain in the central nervous system of the |
| the diagnosis are made on people who are in | | | | human ( the brain and the spinal cord). |
| their middle age, but symptoms can be present | | | | |
| through a long period, since youth. | | | | Certain genes are suspected to cause the way |
| | | | some people deal wit hand react to pain. The |
| A certain category of people have been | | | | way people regulate the way they feel the |
| classified as being more likely to have | | | | pain is very different from one person to |
| fibromylagia. Persons suffering from | | | | another. According to some scientists people |
| rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus | | | | suffering from fibromyalgia seem to have a |
| erythematosus, ankylosing spondylitis have | | | | gene or certain genes that basicly makes them |
| seam to be increasingly more likely to | | | | react in a very strong way towards stimuli |
| develop the disorder. | | | | that others may not perceive as painful. |
| | | | Still, if the genes actually exist, scientist |
| Genetics also seams to play a role in the | | | | have not yet been able to properly identify |
| development of fibromylagia. Women are | | | | them. |
| increasingly more likely to have the disease | | | | |
| if one of the family members already has it. | | | | Diagnosing fibromyalgia can be a little bit |
| Causes are still unknown, be they hereditary | | | | tricky. Patients suffering from the disorder |
| or environmental factors. An increased study | | | | see many doctors before being given a correct |
| in genes is trying to clarify if some people | | | | diagnose. One of the most important facts why |
| are more predisposed in fibromylagia than | | | | this is so, is because of the overlapping of |
| others. | | | | the pain and fatigue ( the main and most |
| | | | common symptoms) with other conditions. |
| Exact causes that determine the appearance of | | | | Doctors have to rule out , one by one , |
| the disease are still unknown. A number of | | | | potential cause before properly interpreting |
| factors are suspected of being the triggers | | | | all the symptoms and giving a proper diagnose |
| of the disease. Some people believe that the | | | | of fibromyalgia. Another reason would be that |
| decisive factor is an intense physical ore | | | | there are still no laboratories equipped with |
| emotional stressful even ( such as an | | | | the specific machinery to deal with the |
| automobile crash). Other seam to prefer the | | | | diagnosing of the disease. Physiologic reason |
| term of repetitive injuries. Some doctors | | | | are always ruled out by standard laboratory |
| link it to an illness. In any case, it seems | | | | tests. Again a sad fact about correctly |
| that people with certain rheumatoid symptoms | | | | diagnosing fibromyalgia is that some doctors |
| or autoimmune diseases are particularly | | | | say that it is all in the mind of the person, |
| likely to develop fibromyalgia. To make | | | | or that is little they can actually do. |
| matters even more complicated some people | | | | |