How is Fibromyalgia Diagnosed and Treated?
Unfortunately fibromyalgia is not well understood by people and doctors do not know many things about this disease. Some of the possible symptoms are: fatigue, insomnia, tissue pain and tender points. Doctors have not found a cure yet for this affection but they are still searching for one. It seems that mostly women are affected by fibromyalgia. From the world’s population 3.4% of the women have this disease and only 0.5 of the men are affected by this illness. Fibromyalgia can not be detected by a laboratory test and because of that many scientists thought that fibromyalgia was triggered by negative emotions or it was a psychosomatic affection. Until now scientists have proved that there has been altered the brain chemistry in these patients who come with an affected sleep pattern. These patients complain about being tired even after sleeping for a long time. Some say that they wake up during the sleep for several times. Scientists have concluded that sleeping problems associated wit