| Fibromyalgia is often a misdiagnosed and mistreated | | | | as a whole. If one section does not function, or fire, |
| condition that debilitates millions of people in the | | | | properly it causes other areas to not function |
| world today. The standard treatment is focused on | | | | normally. This malfunction can be under firing or over |
| treating the symptoms and not the condition itself. | | | | firing, either of which can cause major problems. |
| When the standard protocol of pain medicines, | | | | One of the main problems with fibromyalgia patients |
| muscle relaxers, anti-inflammatory medicines, sleeping | | | | is one or more areas of the brain functioning below |
| pills, anti-anxiety medicines or anti-depressant | | | | normal which causes the upper brain stem to function |
| medicines don't work, patients are told either it is | | | | above normal, or over fire. This leads to certain |
| untreatable or it's in their head. There is nothing | | | | chemicals being released into the blood that cause |
| further from the truth. | | | | stimulation of the pain sensation fibers. These pain |
| The truth about Fibromyalgia is that the problem is | | | | fibers, or type C nociceptors, are what cause the |
| often in your head, literally. For a long time it was | | | | chronic pain. The overactive upper brain stem also |
| believed that it was a muscle problem, which is true | | | | can cause insomnia, light sensitivity, increased |
| but the muscle issues are secondary to another | | | | sweating, irritable bowels and several other |
| problem. The medical information about it is finally | | | | symptoms. |
| pointing to nerve problems, but the source of the | | | | We can now understand why the standard medical |
| problem is often in the brain. This does not mean | | | | treatment for Fibromyalgia doesn't work. The |
| that there is a psychological problem. The problem is | | | | medicines may help a little temporarily but the body |
| a functioning problem with the brain. | | | | eventually habituates to, or gets used to, these |
| The brain has several different sections that perform | | | | medicines and they quit working. This leads to |
| certain functions, but they are all connected and rely | | | | stronger and stronger doses being prescribed and |
| on each other to allow the brain to function properly | | | | eventually they don't help at all. |