What is myalgia? Is it the same as Fibromyalgia?
Myalgia is muscle pain, often accompanied by weakness. FM patients have many overlapping medical symptoms with EMS patients, and one is muscle pain. Some with EMS have been diagnosed as having FM secondary to EMS, while others might have had pre-existing FM before they got EMS – perhaps as the result of a car accident or some other trauma. All the causes of FM are not known (though trauma is thought to be one possible cause), just as the exact cause(s) of EMS are not definitively known and outlined, except for its association with contaminated over-the-counter L-tryptophan made by one Japanese manufacturer, Showa Denko KK.
