Fibromyalgia and Homeopathy :
If you feel pain all over your body, muscles ache all
over and you frequently feel exhausted and unrefreshed even after a sleep. Also
there are these points in your body where slight pressure causes severe pain and
it so happens that even after numerous tests no diagnosis has ever been
confirmed. If this sounds familiar, you may have fibromyalgia.
What is Fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia syndrome is a chronic disorder
although it resembles arthritis due to excessive pains, it is not at all like
arthritis. It does not cause any damage or inflammation of joints, muscles and
tissues.
Widespread muscle pain, fatigue, and multiple tender points are few of the
important symptoms that often characterize the disorder. Tender points are
specific places on the body where even slightest pressure causes extreme
pain?they can be present on the neck, shoulders, back, hips, and upper and lower
extremities.
As more medical advancement is being made to understand this strange disorder it
is becoming more and more evident that sleep plays an important role in this
disease. Usually people with fibromyalgia seem to wake up with tired-up feeling
even though they seem to sleep enough. This morning fatigue is being linked to a
kind of sleep disorder where a person is not able to go into deep sleep. Recent
medical studies have suggested that this sleep problem is due to alpha wave
interrupted sleep pattern, a condition where deep sleep is interrupted often by
bursts of activity in the brain similar to wakefulness. So people suffering from
fibromyalgia are deprived from this restorative phase of sleep.
In addition to the above mentioned symptoms those suffering from fibromyalgia
may show a wide array of symptoms-, morning stiffness, headaches, irritable
bowel syndrome, painful menstrual periods, numbness or tingling of the
extremities, restless legs syndrome, temperature sensitivity, memory problems,
depression or a variety of other symptoms. |
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