![]() The presence of chronic pain, such as with fibromyalgia, makes falling asleep and staying asleep more difficult. The relationship between sleep and chronic pain is complicated, and there is a lot we do not understand about cause and effect. Is sleep a cause of fibromyalgia? Again, we just don’t know, and this current study doesn’t answer that question. That said, all of these disorders are found more often in people with fibromyalgia than in the general population. Researchers have explored links between fibromyalgia and other diseases and disorders, including arthritis, depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, and restless leg syndrome, but no conclusive evidence has been found to demonstrate a causal link between fibromyalgia and these conditions. There are signs of possible genetic and environmental links, since fibromyalgia seems to sometimes run in families. Since it can’t be tested for, a diagnosis of fibromyalgia comes by way of eliminating other possible conditions. For this reason, and because there is no single test that can positively identify fibromyalgia, it remains difficult to diagnose. But much about the syndrome-including and especially what causes it-remains unknown. ![]() This has changed, and the medical establishment now overwhelmingly accepts that fibromyalgia exists as a very real disorder. For a long time, there was no consensus in the medical community about whether it even existed, whether it was a “real” disorder or an “imagined” one. Men do develop fibromyalgia, but women are more than 10 times as likely as men to develop the syndrome.įibromyalgia has a history that’s both contentious and mysterious. Women ages 20-50 are at the highest risk for fibromyalgia. ![]() People with fibromyalgia often experience daytime fatigue, which can be severe, as well as depression, anxiety, and memory problems. With fibromyalgia, the pain is often felt at certain trigger points, and radiates from those points outward. Pain is often felt throughout the body, in muscles, tendons and soft tissues. What is fibromyalgia? It’s a syndrome whose main characteristic is chronic pain. What it does do-for the first time-is establish a strong connection between sleep problems and fibromyalgia, by showing the increased risk of fibromyalgia that is associated with lack of sleep. ![]() It’s important to make clear that this study does not prove that sleep deficiencies cause fibromyalgia.
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