Will you have other problems if you have fibromyalgia?
Hello
Our health is one of the most valuable things we have. Many say if we do not have health, we have nothing.
Being that fibromyalgia has such an enormous impact on the body and persists forever. I wanted to find out how likely it would be that if you have one problem you will have others?
This study looks at that. It is called “Overlapping Conditions Among Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Fibromyalgia (FM), and Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD).”
The second opening sentence they tell us “A growing literature suggests that a variety of comorbid illnesses also may commonly coexist in these patients, including irritable bowel syndrome, chronic tension-type headache, and interstitial cystitis.” Meaning that there are more and more studies that confirm this suspicion.
The first finding was “with little exception, patients reported few past diagnoses of the 10 clinical conditions beyond their referring diagnosis of CFS, FM, or TMD.” So they didn’t have issues before this problem came up.
“Patients were more likely than controls to meet lifetime symptom and diagnostic criteria for many of the conditions, including CFS, FM, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivities, and headache. Lifetime rates of irritable bowel syndrome were particularly striking in the patient groups (CFS, 92%; FM, 77%; TMD, 64%) compared with controls (18%) (P<.001).”
“Individual symptom analysis revealed that patients with CFS, FM, and TMD share common symptoms, including generalized pain sensitivity, sleep and concentration difficulties, bowel complaints, and headache.”
This study tells us that if you have one, it will lead to many.
Are you ready to end the progressive decline of one problem turning into many?
Jason
