Patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) experience pain throughout the body and increased pain perception, especially in the muscles and tendon insertions.
Fibromyalgia attacks typically last several days, during which time the patient is completely incapacitated. After, on average, just two weeks of respite, the next batch begins. With increasing age, the disease course of the pain disorder usually weakens.
In this article we would like to bring you closer to the symptoms and diagnosis of fibromyalgia. Because those affected often do not know what is happening to them for a long time.
On the other hand, we want you to be able to classify your symptoms and see for yourself if the listed symptoms match yours. If this is the case, or if you have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, we want to show you ways and measures that can prolong your breathing and significantly improve your quality of life in the long term. You can read more about this in the treatment and exercise chapters.
Overview of Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) used to be known as soft tissue rheumatism and is characterized by chronic pain in various parts of the body accompanied by fatigue, sleep disorders and associated psychological symptoms. 1) Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) affects about three percent of the population in all industrialized countries. 2) The majority of those affected with this clinical condition are middle-aged women.
For a long time, Fibromyalgia Syndrome (or soft tissue rheumatism) was not recognized as a disease and many of those affected were considered “pensioners”, “sleepers” or “simulators”. Today there are several studies and a large amount of reliable data showing that fibromyalgia syndrome is actually a clinical condition with immense psychological stress, which significantly limits the quality of life of many people, especially with symptoms of pronounced severity. Fibromyalgia or soft tissue rheumatism are classified as rheumatic diseases. Since the psyche also plays a decisive role in fibromyalgia, in this context it is often unclear which doctor
