Word: fibromyalgia
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...mild arthritis and fibromyalgia (chronic muscle pain) for more than five years. I do yoga and watch my diet and manage to keep the arthritis in check without drugs. I've learned that keeping joints and muscles warm lessens pain and stiffness. When I go to bed, I put elastic warming wraps on my elbows and knees; otherwise my joints are stiff in the morning. I go to bed bundled up as if I'm going ice skating. It's not an attractive sight, but it's worth it to be able to function in the mornings. MARJORIE MCLAREN Palo...
...mail: ianmedical@aol.com is a correspondent for NBC's Today show. For more on fibromyalgia, see arthritis.org
...body needs to get properly refreshed at night. Patients have told me that they feel so heavy in the morning they can hardly get out of bed and that they often find it difficult to concentrate on even minor tasks. For reasons that are not known, women get fibromyalgia seven times as often as men, but the ailment can strike anyone...
Doctors are at a disadvantage in diagnosing fibromyalgia because many of its symptoms are shared by other illnesses. Compounding the problem is the fact that even with these recent findings, there are still no definitive fibromyalgia markers. X rays and blood tests can be used only to rule out other illnesses...
...facilitate diagnosis, the American College of Rheumatology established a procedure for examining 18 tender points on a patient's body. If the muscles feel very sore when pressed in 11 of these 18 points, a tentative diagnosis of fibromyalgia can be made...