Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is a neurologic chronic health condition that causes pain all over the body and other symptoms. Other symptoms of fibromyalgia that patients most often have are:

• Tenderness to touch or pressure affecting muscles and sometimes joints or even the skin
• Severe fatigue
• Sleep problems (waking up unrefreshed)
• Problems with memory or thinking clearly

Some patients also may have:

• Depression or anxiety
• Migraine or tension headaches
• Digestive problems: irritable bowel syndrome (commonly called IBS) or gastroesophageal reflux disease (often referred to as GERD) Irritable or overactive bladder
• Pelvic pain
• Temporomandibular disorder - often called TMJ (a set of symptoms including face or jaw pain, jaw clicking, and ringing in the ears)