Learning the Fibromyalgia Definition will help you understand why the Fibromyalgia Tender Points are so painful. The Fibromyalgia definition is: A chronic condition that produces intense pain in the muscles and fibrous tissues.
- Chronic means: An illness that persists for a long time or constantly reoccurs and is difficult to eradicate.
- Syndrome means: A complex condition that causes many symptoms in the body to occur all at once.
- The term, Fibromyalgia, comes from “fibro” which are the fibrous tissues of the tendons and ligaments. “My” are the muscles and “algia” means pain. In other words, is a condition that produces pain in the muscles and fibrous tissues.
My onset of Fibromyalgia or Fibro Myalgia suddenly occurred about 33 years ago, when I was pregnant. When it was first suspected that I had Fibromyalgia, it was difficult to define the condition in a way my friends could understand.
At the time, fibromyalgia information was limited and doctors didn’t recognized fibromyalgia symptoms. In fact, most doctors were unaware there was such a condition or problem and patients were often considered “off the wall” or just “habitual complainers.”
Fibromyalgia awareness was not taken seriously until the late eighties when fibromyalgia research took an upswing. The fibromyalgia definition and fibromyalgia information then became more accessible to doctors and the general public. At the present time, there are over 6 million people in the United States alone that suffer with Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Fibromyalgia Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, (another name for the condition,) is not considered a disease. The fact that so many fibro symptoms can occur at the same time make it a unique disorder.
I call Fibromyalgia a “Personal Syndrome” because it manifests itself so differently in each individual person. The intense pain in several of the fibromyalgia tenderpoints were the most bothersome for me.
Just as there are many suspicious causes, there are as many different overlapping fibromyalgia symptoms. Successful fibromyalgia treatments also vary with each individual.
Fibromyalgia symptoms wax and wane. One may go for months without any fibro symptoms. On the other hand, one may suffer pain for many weeks or months. No one understands exactly why the symptoms come and go as they do.
Only one symptom seems to be a constant and that is, Fibromyalgia Tender Points. Fibromyalgia Tender Points is the defining symptom of Fibromyalgia Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Linda
P.S. Living with Fibromyalgia can be mastered!
