Symptoms Of Fibromyalgia - Are You Suffering Non Rejuvenating Sleep

Associating just any type muscle pain with fibromyalgia is not a sensible thing to do. Fibromyalgia is not something that can be diagnosed overnight.

For example, an established criteria for confirming fibromyalgia symptoms is widespread pain which can be present for three months or more. Also, widespread pain doesn’t mean in every corner of your body happening at the same time.

Breaking it down, the pain can be widespread either in the upper half of the body, the lower half or the left and right halves. There are 18 active trigger points when discussing fibromyalgia and of these, there needs to be at least 11 active.

Active being there has to be pain or soreness associated with them. Trigger points are located around the neck and shoulder area, middle of the body around the buttocks, arms and around the knee area.

Fibro Symptoms

While there are a number of fibromyalgia symptoms which can come into play at various times there are actually four main symptoms which can be responsible, directly or indirectly for others.

Here are the four major symptoms:

- Muscle pain is one of the more recognizable symptoms of fibromyalgia. To take it a step further, it’s not just pain but what has been described as chronic, diffused musculoskeletal pain.

- Fatigue is one of the four main fibromyalgia symptoms which plagues sufferers. Fatigue is particularly troublesome for sufferers because one of it’s spin-offs is decreased quality of life.

- Sleep or bad sleep is in the top four. In other words, sleep of a non-rejuvenating kind meaning you wake feeling less rested than you did when you first went to bed.

- The fourth main symptom relates to muscles but not in a painful way. It’s more muscle stiffness and can affect a fibro sufferer in short bursts but several times during the day.

Depression is a particular problem simply because it can drive a fibromyalgia sufferer deeper into their shell. Can you blame someone battling fibromyalgia symptoms wanting to simply stay in their own little patch and suffer in silence?

No you can’t but if you live with someone experiencing the symptoms then you need to be careful not to encourage withdrawal from what are deemed as normal daily activities.

Let’s be honest, people in general are a suspicious lot and when something like fibromyalgia confronts them yet they cannot see any physical proof, that something visibly wrong, then the doubt alarms go off.

A drop in quality of life is not a decision the majority of people would make voluntarily. The effect of fibromyalgia symptoms is very real and doesn’t just affect those with fibromyalgia but also those immediately around them.