Five Things You Should Know About Fibromyalgia
by Amanda Rinkel
May 5th, 2009
International Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Fibromyalgia Awareness Day is next week on May 12th. I’m going to take a break from articles on internet wastes of time, movie reviews and news updates. Instead I’m going to take a moment to highlight these illnesses and the necessity for awareness.
Five Things You Should Know About Fibromyalgia
1. 3-8 million people in the United States have Fibromyalgia and up to 80% are women.
2. Fibromyalgia most commonly hits between the ages of 20-40 years old, at the “prime of life.”
3. It has been nick-named “the pain disease” because of the characteristic wide-spread, migrating body pain patients have. The pain has been described differently by each patient from dull aches to deep bone pain to burning, tearing, singeing, stabbing or shooting. The breadth of pain descriptions is what makes diagnosis difficult.
4. People with Fibromyalgia have cognitive difficulties, such as memory problems and attention issues, that has been nicknamed “Fibro fog” or “brain fog.”
5. Fibromyalgia is considered as functionally disabling as rheumatoid arthritis but is much less accepted and recognized by both the medical establishment, Social Security and the community at large.
To learn more check out www.fmsaware.org.
Soource: blog.su-spectator.com
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