Fibromyalgia is quite a complex disorder that most of the time, doctors misdiagnose it or fail to catch it at the outset. It’s no different with many fibromyalgia patients. They often find their condition confusing, if not overwhelming.
Until this day, there is no single diagnostic test to confirm nor deny a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. Doctors need to know your specific symptoms and ask you to take multiple medical tests before they can rule out other disorders with identical symptoms. Only then can they conclude you have fibromyalgia.
Some of the fibromyalgia symptoms that doctors look for are the following:
For this article, let’s focus on the top five indicators of fibromyalgia and see what they entail. Then, we will introduce a natural method to help patients ease their fibromyalgia symptoms.
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The majority of fibromyalgia patients are unable to fall asleep or stay asleep. As a result, they always feel very tired even when they just wake up in the morning. It seems no amount of sleep can alleviate their fatigue. A study discovered that people with fibromyalgia often experience sleep disturbance due to a burst of activity that happens in their brain, similar to when they are awake. That being the case, they get limited deep sleep, which stops the body from gaining restorative sleep. Fatigue is the result.
Similar to tendinitis, osteoarthritis, or bursitis, fibromyalgia does not affect only one location of the body. It causes patients to experience pain throughout the body. The pain can be dull, aching, sharp, throbbing, or deep. It afflicts the tendons of the joints, muscles, and ligaments. It may be occasional or may radiate through the body. This causes patients to seek medical care.
Doctors look for the tender points when they try to assess a person for possible fibromyalgia. Tender points are spots around the joints that hurt when applied with gentle pressure. Ordinary healthy people will simply feel light pressure, but those with fibromyalgia will complain of severe pain. The tender points are in various parts of the body, often under the surface of the skin.
Those living with fibromyalgia feel the need to loosen up first thing in the morning. This is due to the stiffness they feel in their arms, back, and leg muscles. Stiffness can last between a couple of minutes to not more than an hour a day. In some cases, it lasts the whole day.
Also referred to as paresthesia, its cause is unknown. It occurs at random and can be short-lived or a permanent sensation. It can be annoying but not incapacitating in general.
According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, 20% of people with fibromyalgia also deal with depression or an anxiety disorder. The chronic pain and fatigue are the possible culprits behind these mood disorders. Fibromyalgia patients are often anxious and stressed out about how to keep up with a normal lifestyle. They are also inactive and more withdrawn.
If you live with this chronic pain disorder, you are probably curious about how to improve your condition. Here’s some good news: upper cervical chiropractic care holds a high success rate in helping fibromyalgia patients overcome their symptoms. Let’s go over one fascinating case study involving a woman with fibromyalgia.
A 45-year-old lady had suffered from 2 head injuries, 10 car accidents, and eventually got fibromyalgia diagnosis. It took 11 years of suffering before she finally decided to get the help of an upper cervical chiropractor. She also complained of the numbness in her fingers, sciatica, migraines, chronic neck pain, right knee pain, and depression.
After she started to receive upper cervical chiropractic care from a trusted chiropractor, she reported a vast improvement in her symptoms. Sciatica in her left leg disappeared, and her symptoms of fibromyalgia decreased significantly. The woman slept better at night and noted more energy. In addition, she finally managed to accomplish all the daily tasks she had and let go of her medications.
During her second evaluation, her back pain and migraines had vanished. Within six months, she had returned doing things she once couldn’t like swimming, standing, doing yard works, and standing.
Head or neck trauma often results in a misalignment in the bones of the upper cervical spine. This can make the brainstem suffer from pressure and cause it to transmit incorrect signals to the brain about the level of pain in the body. The brainstem can tell the brain that the body is in so much pain, even when it is not. This malfunction in pain processing is often the cause of fibromyalgia.
Upper cervical chiropractic care corrects this misalignment by gently adjusting the topmost bones in the neck. Once they realign, patients can experience a massive improvement in their fibromyalgia symptoms.
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