What Is Fibromyalgia?
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
6. Disease Process
Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that affects muscles and other soft tissues like tendons. It presents with pain in many parts of the body, including both sides of the upper and lower parts of the body. The pain, which is usually worse in the morning, mainly affects the muscles, tendons, and ligaments in the neck, back, shoulders, and the hips.
While fibromyalgia may occur together with a condition like arthritis, which causes joint pain, fibromyalgia pain only affects connective tissues. Fibromyalgia also presents with fatigue of varying severity, sleep difficulties, poor concentration, poor memory, nervousness, pins and needles, and headaches. The presence of a number of these signs may indicate that you have fibromyalgia.
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