Fibromyalgia : Case Study

Brigitte has since his youth of great fatigue and pain to the cervical vertebrae that anti-inflammatory drugs have never calmed down. "The pain came in increments, with the most violent episodes, as when you move in 1993 when I could no longer walk. Six years ago I had shingles, and there, it was the fall ... Lower back, elbows, the hands are affected. I was a piano teacher and I can not play, "she says. His exams, radios and analysis have revealed nothing abnormal.

Jacqueline those do not cause pain that began one day in the street, literally shearing the two. "The treatments are ineffective and their devastating side effects. It does what is happening, "she says. It has always been sports like running a very old lady and has memory problems. Anne "evil everywhere, all the time, lack of sleep, was exhausted and not accept to have lost its intellectual capacity. She gave up work to keep his meager forces to raise her children, "a choice hard financially and morally."

Brigitte, Jacqueline and Anne have consulted long and in vain, various specialists - rheumatologists, neurologists, psychiatrists ... They now put a name on this evil which they live a hell on a daily basis: fibromyalgia.

Four symptoms are found in almost all patients:

- Diffuse generalized pain, or sometimes localized, permanent, often exacerbated in cases of effort;

- The fatigue;

- Sleep with a non-restorative sleep;

- Morning stiffness that requires the patient to dérouiller, as if suffering from osteoarthritis.

May be associated with headaches, digestive disorders, chronic colitis, irritable bladder, restless legs, cold extremities, anxiety or depression.