| The alarm goes off! You feel that bolt of dread and | | | | an illness at all. Doctors could not find any thing |
| fear in your heart. Will you make it through the day? | | | | wrong with patients so they believed it to be |
| Will you hold on by your fingernails and just barely | | | | psychosomatic. Slowly that dismissive view is |
| make it to the end of the day? Will your cognitive | | | | changing. Published research at Johns Hopkins, The |
| problems cause you more humiliation? Will you be | | | | University of Pennsylvania and other top research |
| able to keep your job? If you have Fibromyalgia | | | | facilities, points to immune dysfunction and cardiac |
| Syndrome, you think about how you'll deal with the | | | | abnormalities in these illnesses. It is difficult to believe |
| pain. Thoughts go through your head that you don't | | | | that some doctors still regard people with |
| really want to consider. Would it be better to just | | | | Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome as nothing |
| give up completely, lose everything, just to stop this | | | | more than "extremely worried well people." |
| daily torture? If you're still capable of working, you | | | | The primary Fibromyalgia symptom is widespread, |
| make the painful tremendous effort to get up and | | | | diffuse pain, often including heightened sensitivity of |
| try to survive this day. If you've got Fibromyalgia, | | | | the skin, aching around the joints, and nerve pain. |
| you already know that's how each day can be. Some | | | | Other symptoms often attributed to Fibromyalgia |
| people describe it this way, "Fibromyalgia is chronic | | | | include physical fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, |
| fatigue syndrome with pain." | | | | interstitial cystitis, dermatological disorders, |
| In your mind, you have to believe that someway, | | | | headaches, and symptomatic hypoglycemia. Although |
| somehow, someday you can beat this hideous | | | | it is common in people with Fibromyalgia for pain to |
| disease, and live like the normal people you see and | | | | be widespread, it may also be localized in areas such |
| envy every day. You can wake up and enjoy your | | | | as the shoulders, neck, back, hips, or other areas. Not |
| family and friends, who may not really understand | | | | all people have all symptoms. |
| why you lay on the couch in pain or exhausted | | | | The cause of Fibromyalgia is unknown, but |
| before noon. You have tried many different | | | | researchers have several hypotheses about what |
| treatments, and some of them may have helped, but | | | | triggers the illness. Some scientists believe that the |
| you are still not well. As you read these words, deep | | | | syndrome may be caused by an injury or trauma. |
| inside you think, "Is there hope for me here? Is there | | | | This injury may affect the central nervous system. |
| any hope at all?" | | | | Fibromyalgia may be associated with changes in |
| According to the American College of Rheumatology, | | | | muscle metabolism, such as decreased blood flow, |
| Fibromyalgia affects 3 to 6 million Americans. Other | | | | causing fatigue and decreased strength. Others |
| sources say the total number affected could be 8 | | | | believe an infectious agent such as a virus in |
| million people. It primarily occurs in women of | | | | susceptible people may trigger the syndrome, but no |
| childbearing age, but children, the elderly, and men | | | | such agent has been identified. Psychological stress |
| can also be affected. Approximately 80 percent to | | | | and hormonal changes also may be possible causes |
| 90 percent of people affected by Fibromyalgia | | | | of Fibromyalgia. |
| syndrome are women. Because the symptoms can | | | | While there is no medical cure for Fibromyalgia, many |
| often be difficult to diagnose, many people will often | | | | people have experienced improvement in symptoms |
| fail to seek treatment because they don't want to | | | | and quality of life through nutritional improvements |
| admit that the symptoms they are experiencing are | | | | including supplementations of micronutrients including |
| in fact the signs that something is not working the | | | | glyconutrients. I have personally worked with people, |
| way it should inside the body. | | | | including the spouses of doctors, who have noticed |
| Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterized by | | | | incredible changes in quality of life when introducing |
| fatigue and widespread pain in your muscles, | | | | the appropriate levels of high-quality nutrients to their |
| ligaments and tendons. At first, it was not considered | | | | diets. |