| Fibromyalgia feels like a severe case of the flu | | | | percent of those with fibromyalgia are women. |
| but it does not go away in 24 hours, 48 hours or | | | | The highest incidence occurs among women 20 to |
| even 48 days and every muscle in the body | | | | 40 years of age. |
| aches. A person who has fibromyalgia doesn't | | | | Fibromyalgia is referred as a syndrome of signs |
| have the energy to lift the head, much less do | | | | and symptoms that characterize it such as soft |
| the dishes, drive to work or walk up a flight of | | | | tissue tenderness, sleep disturbances, general |
| stairs. The symptoms of fibromyalgia are similar | | | | fatigue, aches, pain and stiffness in the back, |
| to ordinary illness such as the flu. | | | | neck, hands and other parts of the body. |
| Recent medical studies have confirmed | | | | Fibromyalgia is also characterized as a chronic, |
| fibromyalgia is real even some doctors often | | | | arthritis-related condition. Because the symptoms |
| write about fibromyalgia as hypochondria or an | | | | are common in other conditions diagnosing |
| active imagination. 3 to 6 percent of the | | | | fibromyalgia is confusing for those in the medical |
| population of the U.S. has fibromyalgia. 80 to 90 | | | | profession. |