f you have fibromyalgia (FMS), chest pain may be one of your symptoms. A condition called costochondritis, which causes pain around the breastbone and rib cage, could be to blame. It is caused by inflammation in the cartilage that connects your ribs and sternum (breastbone). It’s believed to be common in people with FMS.1 Costochondritis is also called noncardiac chest…

Small fiber neuropathy, a pain-inducing condition that resembles and overlaps with fibromyalgia, may be significantly under-diagnosed in the U.S., according to a presenter at the 2021 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology-West. “The etiology and pathophysiology of fibromyalgia is not completely understood,” Khosro Farhad, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, said in his presentation. That said,…

Two simple assessments — questioning whether a patient has persistent deep aching pain over most of their body and determining if pain is elicited by pinching the Achilles tendon — should be added to routine evaluation in primary care to help physicians diagnose fibromyalgia, according to recent findings. “Data from the U.S., Europe and Asia…

Julie Stewart Not a morning person? For patients with fibromyalgia, the answer to that question could be a clue about their treatment response with a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI), suggested a new cross-sectional study published on July 29 in Rheumatology International. Compared with patients who had 30% or more pain relief after 8 or…

While the exact cause of fibromyalgia is unknown, possible contributing factors include genetics, infections and physical or emotional trauma. My mother has experienced widespread chronic pain, fatigue and brain fog, among other symptoms, for years. After much uncertainty, she received a final diagnosis: Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). In addition to pain and fatigue, those with FMS…

*Scroll down to the bottom of the article to find your discount code for ALL Cannacares CBD Products A study that was conducted by King’s College London in collaboration with the University of Liverpool and the Karolinska Institute shows that many of the symptoms of fibromyalgia are caused by antibodies that increase the activity of…

By Helen Watts It’s said that back-pain is one of the biggest causes of time taken off work.   This led me to thinking about it’s prevalence in people with fibromyalgia and wondering how many people suffered with their back so I turned to the Facebook groups and asked. ‘ZK’   “I think mine is…

By Marika Nicoll   I was diagnosed a few years ago with fibromyalgia, although I realised afterwards that I had had it for as long as I could remember, but had never heard of it before then. Then last year I was also diagnosed with second degree heart block of unknown origin. I got a…

By Keelin Nielsen Donohoe For a lot of people with fibromyalgia it can take years to find the real diagnosis. For me it took 6 years to even hear the word fibromyalgia, and a year and a half more to finally have it written in my notes as my official diagnosis. In most cases, people…

By Madeleine Sara ‘I decide to check my emails, but have to go in search of my spectacles. Maybe I left them in the hall?  I notice FM magazine has arrived with the post, which I take into the study. Throwing  junk mail in the waste basket, I see it’s full. Putting the rest of…