All About Fibromyagia

Fibromyalgia is a debilitating condition. Often referred to as "Life's Intruder", fibromyalgias impact on one's quality of life is often devastating.

Until recently, fibromyalgia was misunderstood. The lack of understanding resulted in few effective treatments. However, the mysteries of fibromyalgia are unfolding, and effective treatments and management programs are being delivered in fibromyalgia specialty clinics, such as Fibromyalgia Seattle.

The three primary symptoms of fibromyalgia include widespread pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbances. Rarely, however, do FMS patients suffer from only these three symptoms. In most cases, patients have other symptoms, such as headaches, anxiety, depression, poor memory, numbness and tingling in the extremities, cold hands and feet, irritable bowel syndrome, brain fog, lowered immune function, chemical sensitivities, muscle cramps, restless leg syndrome, trigeminal neuralgia, morning stiffness, and a variety of other symptoms.

Three systematic signs of fibromyalgia include hypoxia (decreased cellular oxygen), disruption of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis (hormonal imbalances), and increased sympathetic tone (oversensitization).

Most fibromyalgia symptoms are due to imbalances in the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis), and are ultimately hormonal disorders.