Fibro Myalgia what is learned on this disease?

Question

Is it hereditary? My nephew has wasted the best years of his life thus far with it from 16 to now 21. He is always in pain. No drugs does he take for it.

Answer 1

No specific cause for fibromyalgia has been found.

One of the leading theories is that low levels of a chemical called serotonin may lead to the illness. Serotonin is found throughout the body and plays an important role in controlling pain and regulating sleep. Blood tests have confirmed that people with fibromyalgia have low serotonin levels.

Other researchers believe fibromyalgia is caused by a lack of deep sleep. It is during stage 4 sleep that muscles recover from the prior day’s activity and the body refreshes itself. Sleep studies show that as people with fibromyalgia enter stage 4 sleep, they become more aroused and stay in a lighter form of sleep. Even though they may sleep for a long period of time, they get poor quality sleep. Also, when researchers took normal volunteers and did not allow them to enter into stage 4 sleep, they developed symptoms similar to fibromyalgia.
Fibromyalgia is an illness that causes chronic pain in muscles and ligaments. Although this disorder affects about 4 million Americans, the vast majority of them are women in their mid-30s to late-50s.

In addition to muscular pain and stiffness, this ailment can also cause fatigue, sleep problems, depression, and an inability to think clearly.

Answer 2

I have this crap. It sucks. There is no EXACT test for it, usually they run a lot of tests and when nothing comes back they label it fybromyalgiea. You have your good days when you feel like you can take on the whole world and nothing will get you to slow down, then there are other days that the pain is so bad you just lay there. But if you have kids, you know even on the worst days you have to keep on getting after it no matter how much it hurts. I have been to all sorts of specialists. And other things with my health have come up, but they seem to chock it up to the fibromyalgia. They (Dr's) say that fibro is triggered from abuse and accident or something traumatic in your life. Mine affects me mostly in my neck, shoulders, back and hips. I was diagnosed three years ago. I was taking a bunch of perscription durgs, feldene, zanaflex, and darvoset. But I found that those made me feel worse than when I didn't take it. Now i just take tylenol and motrin and take ambien to sleep. Sleep helps a lot too especially when it is restful and deep. My mother has it too. She's had it for about 10yrs now, and she has more bad days than good days anymore, hers seems to be progressing. But if you go see a specialist, make sure you see a rhumatologist who specializes in fibromyalgia. They usually have the best knowledge about this stuff. Good luck to you, and know you are not alone in this fight.

Answer 3

i have fibromyalgia. i actually read alot on it until i just couldn't research it anymore. one thing that i read which was interesting was that about 65% of all fibromyalgia people had been abused in some kind of way. a few others i have talked to do not admit to any sort of abuse but that they had been in some sort of car accident.

i learned that this was a condition that i wouldn't die from and at one point i was told that it wouldn't get much worse but then it DID. i knew that something was wrong about14 years ago but i didn't figure out what it was for several years after the first real pain. looking back furthur- it was there all along just subtle.

i had 3 different doctors diagnois me to be certain that it wasn't some other mysterious deadly disease. it's so difficult to explain this to people because it's not something they can see. not like lab results or xrays.
however, as long as i get up in the morning and allow my muscles to stretch - i can go on with my day as tho nothing is wrong until about 7:00 and my body tells me it has had enough for one day.

my doctor says that if he could get my sleeping disorder under control that half the battle would be won . the lack of really good deep sleep is devastating because your muscles just do not get rest and i read somewhere that muscles make a chemical and if the muscles do not relax in sleep then the muscles just keep on making that chemical to a point that it is one of the reason you hurt so bad.

i have read magnesium was helpful but i didn't notice any difference.

since i don't want mind altering drugs- i take 600mgs of ibuprophen 3 times a day when i remember and amitriptyline at night to help me stay asleep( it works about 50% of the time). supoosedly, according to my doctor- the amitriptyline also has a muscle relaxing effect. so far, i am still never NOT in pain. it is just degrees of pain that to some degree sometimes you can function thru.

there is seriously so much info out there- just shift thru it and use what is helpful to you.

Answer 4

A friend of ours at church has Fibro Myalgia. She has been taking Reliv for a few months, and is doing a lot better. If you would like more information, you can email us at [e-mail]

Answer 5

I found a website last year, 30 pages, one thing that makes it act up is aspertane in diet drinks, I could not move my fingers they hurt so bad and the rest of my body was just as bad, I got off the diet drinks and 2 weeks later most of the pain had gone away. Cannot remember the website but I went to a google search and found it. Hope this helps you.

Answer 6

I don't know but i do know 2 people with it and says it's painful and you just half to live with it, other then that i havn't heard anything new about the disease