Symptoms of fibromyalgia include:

• Widespread pain (pain of a muscle fibers affecting body tissue). The pain associated with fibromyalgia often is described as a constant dull ache that has lasted for at least three months. To be considered widespread, the pain must occur on both sides of your body and above and below your waist.
• People with fibromyalgia often awaken tired, even though they report sleeping for long periods of time. Sleep is often disrupted by pain, and many patients with fibromyalgia have other sleep disorders, such as restless legs syndrome and sleep apnea.
• Cognitive difficulties.A symptom commonly referred to as “fibro-fog” impairs the ability to focus, pay attention and concentrate on mental tasks.

Fibromyalgia often co-exists with other painful conditions, such as:

• Headaches / Migraine
• Interstitial cystitis
• Painful bladder syndrome
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Inflammatory joint disease
• Backaches
• Pain within the spine and joints; sternum with ribs and collarbone; spine with a pelvic area
• Temporal-mandibular joint disorders

An inflammatory – rheumatism disease starts in the synovium membrane and changing as a result of inflammation. In the further course of this disease inflammation attacks cartilage and bones. The rheumatic effects of joint degeneration, on the other hand, always begin with damage to the cartilage.

At all rheumatic diseases of the soft tissues, pain and sometimes tension mainly affect the muscles. Also the tendons attached to the bone are painful when pressed. Because the pain is radiating in the area and the tendons are located near the joints, patient and the doctor first suspect joint disease.

Non-inflammatory diseases of soft tissues include clinical images found in fat tissue of tendons and their sheaths, bursa synovialis and muscles. Ailments are common and mostly affect:

• Back
• Hoop of the upper limb
• Sternum area
• Rim of the ilium (pelvic) area & side area of the femur bone
• Surroundings of the temporal-mandibular joints, elbow joints, knee & ankle joints, carpal joints

The tendon is designed to transfer muscle movements on the bone, without changing the length (contrary to the muscles). They are exposed to particular loads where they are attached to bones in the form of thin, individual fibers and also in places where they are twisted around the bone.

Sheaths & bursa synovialis overload or excessive pressure usually reacts with local inflammation, which is easily recognised by classic symptoms:

• Edema
• Redness
• Overheating and pain

As a result of local inflammation in the tendon can also reach the nodular thickening.There is movement impairment. Inflammation of bursa synovialis usually occurs with mechanical overload or permanent pressure e.g. hallux valgus.

The muscles are very rarely attacked individually. Pain involves the whole unit – muscle and tendon. Usually muscle strains are initially limited to one area of the body, but when the tension is expanded, they can (as in a chain reaction), attack subsequent units composed of muscle and tendon. The reason for tension is almost always physical overload, as well as curvature of the spine, joint disorders or mental strain. Also influenced by atmospheric conditions, for example a cool wind breeze on wet skin.

A typical course of fibromyalgia:

At the beginning fibromyalgia attacks usually the spine area, most of the time sacral area rather than cervical area. Then the pain travels to:

• to the occiput
• to shoulders
• to elbows and hands
• to the hips area
• to the knees & ankles
• they can also cover the jaw and chest area
• joints of the fingers in the hands and legs ( sometimes in the morning the fingers are swollen)

Pain in fibromyalgia intensifies after longer periods of rest, especially a long seat, and also during the night rest and just after it. The movement almost always leads to relieving the pain. Moisture, cold or thunderstorm having negative impact on the condition.

During the medical examination tender points on the patient body show increased sensitivity to compression pain, typical for this disease.

Especially painful are places on the body:

• muscles in the upper back
• muscle in the cervical area (neck)
• he area of the trapezius muscle
• muscle in the thoracic area
• ridge of the pelvic muscle area
• transition of the lumbar spine into the cross-bone area (coccyx)
• connection of sternum & ribs and collarbone area
• outside of the hip area – top of femur bone
• on both sides of the knees
• muscle around the ankle

In many patients the proper diagnosis is made only after many years of pilgrimage from one doctor to another. Often, ailments are not taken seriously or when making a diagnosis, they taking into account only one element that makes up the clinical picture of the disease.

Sometimes patients have the impression that they are treated as simulators or hypochondriacs.
It seems that their illness is even suitable for mental illness.

Fibromyalgia is often diagnosed with a multiplication of patient’s years of suffering.

There is no substance whose detection in the blood would clearly indicate the existence of fibromyalgia.

But…

The most important and at the same time very simple examination is to determine whether there is an increase in the blood parameters that are indicative of inflammation, especially the rate of red blood cell depletion. In this way, the existence of a rheumatic disease can be excluded.

Treating fibromyalgia symptoms naturally requires a healthy diet, changes in lifestyle and complementary treatments.

Supplementation for Fibromyalgia:

MAGNESIUM

VITAMIN C

VITAMIN D3 K2

OMEGA 3

Despite the inconvenient and chronic nature of the pain, this condition is not a threat to the person’s life.