Lately I’ve been experiencing pain right between my shoulder blades, and I’m wondering if anyone else with fibromyalgia has this too. Is it: A constant ache?  A burning sensation?  Sharp or stabbing pain?  Tight muscles or muscle spasms? Worse after sitting, standing, or sleeping? I’d love to hear what helps you manage it—whether it’s gentle…

📍 Everyone knows pins and needles. Sit on your foot too long, feel the static, shake it out, gone. Now imagine the static arriving whenever it likes, staying as long as it wants, and needing no reason at all. That is the version we live with. Not the innocent thirty second tingle, but an uninvited…

Fibromyalgia doesn’t necessarily worsen with age, but symptoms may change. Learn about effective strategies and treatments to manage fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a chronic (long-term) disorder defined by pain and tenderness throughout your body, accompanied by fatigue, “brain fog” (difficulties with thinking and memory), and trouble sleeping. Fibromyalgia is essentially “a human energy crisis,” explains Jacob…

People with fibromyalgia may have another treatment option available soon thanks to continuing research at the Comprehensive Center for Pain and Addiction.Chronic widespread body pain. Moderate to extreme fatigue. Sleep disturbances. In the late 1800s, patients with those symptoms were diagnosed with muscular rheumatitis or neurasthenia, conditions physicians struggled to treat. Today, those same symptoms…

Chronic pain associated with the condition leads some to increase use of opioids Evidence shows that fibromyalgia, and the chronic pain associated with it, could worsen an opioid use disorder. Researchers at University of Michigan and the Ohio State University and report their findings in PAIN, the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain. Scientists…

In a new study, about 30 percent of people with long-haul COVID seemed to meet the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia. People with fibromyalgia are all too familiar with its often-debilitating symptoms, which include widespread muscle and joint pain, fatigue, insomnia, and brain fog. Now a new study confirms that similar symptoms often arise in people…

Fibromyalgia can be tricky to diagnose, which is why you may have one of these other conditions instead. While no one knows what exactly causes fibromyalgia, doctors do know a few things about the condition: The widespread chronic pain disorder seems to involve the nervous system; affects 2 to 4 percent of Americans, mostly women;…

Controversy has swirled around the disorder for years. However, the effectiveness of fibromyalgia syndrome treatment is making doubters believe.Like many of his colleagues, John Kissel, M.D., used to think that fibromyalgia wasn’t a real condition. Dr. Kissel, a neurologist and the co-director of the MDA/ALS Center at Ohio State University, thought it was a “wastebasket”…

Fibromyalgia sufferers who have yearned for new treatments finally have one. Tonix Pharmaceuticals says the Food and Drug Administration has approved Tonmya for the treatment of fibromyalgia in adults — the first new FDA-approved therapy for fibromyalgia in over 15 years. Fibromyalgia is a poorly understand chronic pain condition that affects about 10 million Americans,…

New genetic risk factors have been identified for fibromyalgia syndrome in a landmark study that involved scientists at King’s College London. The study, published in Nature Medicine, highlights how the nervous system plays an important role in the development of the disorder. Fibromyalgia is characterized by widespread pain and tenderness, fatigue, and problems with sleep, memory…