How to Control Fibromyalgia?

Fibromyalgia is a medical condition when there is excessive chronical pain in whole body and the pain increases with pressure. The patient gets excessive tired by performing some small activities. Some other symptoms are sleep problems and poor memory problem. Some of the patients also complaint regarding continuous excessive pain in legs, bowel problems and sometimes numb and restless feeling in body parts. Body’s sensitivity towards light, temperature and noise also changes in this disease.

Causes of fibromyalgia

Till now the exact cause of this disease is not clear to any of the doctor, but it is understood that is a combination of two factors, first is genetic and other is environmental, both of them having 50-50% weightage. Both of them are equally responsible for this disease. When someone in family suffers from this disease then goes with many generation of the family. It is a central sensitization syndrome and in this pain appears in CNS (central nervous system).

Symptoms of Fibromyalgia

·         Chronical pain in muscles: it is very common that patient suffering from Fibromyalgia have excessive body pain, they have continuous muscular pain and sometimes their muscles become tight.

·         Sleeplessness: Fibromyalgia patient face sleep problem, they suffer from insomnia and face sleeplessness problems.

·         Stiffness: Patient of Fibromyalgia face stiffness after sitting at one place for long hours or after getting down from bed in the morning.

·         Memory loss: some patient also face memory loss problem, they are not able to remember anything properly.

·         Sensitivity to light, noise and smell

These were some common symptoms, some other symptoms are: tension, nausea, constipation, diarrhea etc.

How to diagnose this disease

If you are searching for a proper procedure of diagnosis, then there is no pre-set procedure, there is not specific test for this disease. The diagnosis process involves making the list of causes and checking the symptoms of the disease, from the list of available symptoms doctors make decision of this disease.

How to control Fibromyalgia

a.       Diet:

It is very important to pay full attention to what you eat in disease. Try to avoid dairy products and gluten containing food. If you are feeling irritation with any kind of mood, remove it from your diet chart. Don’t eat excessive in this situation.

b.      Medicines

Although doctors, till now are not able to understand the problem of this disease hence they are not able to find proper medicines for this disease, but Health Canada and FDA US has approved medicine Pregabalin and duloxetine for curing and controlling Fibromyalgia.

c.       Psychological therapies

CBT stands for cognitive behavioral therapy, it has moderate effect and it helps in reducing pain and other symptoms of Fibromyalgia.

Multicomponent treatment is also very beneficial for Fibromyalgia, it has showed many positive effects and patients’ gets relief from Fibromyalgia but the effects are short term.

Although exact reasons and medicines are not available but still consulting good doctor and taking proper care can help you from controlling Fibromyalgia as well as helps you in getting rid of it.