| Copyright (c) 2008 Hailey Harris | | | | from fatigue, sleeping disorders, morning stiffness, |
| Fibromyalgia is a disorder where patients suffer from | | | | severe headaches and sometimes neuropsychiatric |
| chronic muscle pain and tactile allodynia. In severe | | | | problems which include cognitive dysfunction, |
| cases, allodynia becomes so serious that even being | | | | depressive symptoms and anxiety. |
| touched by the clothes the patient is wearing causes | | | | The causes of Fibromyalgia are not known, though |
| pain. | | | | study has attributed a number of things to be |
| This disorder also causes 'tender joints', or in other | | | | associated with this disorder to some extent of |
| words pain on tender points on the body which | | | | naming them as possible causes. These include stress, |
| includes the neck, shoulders, back, hips, arms or legs. | | | | Serotonin, Dopamine abnormality and genetics among |
| These parts hurt when they are even touched | | | | others. This disorder can affect anyone though it's |
| tenderly. Fibromyalgia also makes the patients suffer | | | | more common in middle-aged women. |