Fibromyalgia
Of fibromyalgia is based on current knowledge is not an autoimmune disease, but can occur together with these.
Fibromyalgia is a noninflammatory disease, mostly around the 35th Age and often starts after reaching the 60th Age decreases again. Hippocrates (600 BC) described this diffuse pain in the muscles.
Most patients had in their history often have chronic pain of the musculoskeletal system, eg for a slipped disc. When the pain of fibromyalgia is no longer just local to the originally affected areas, but the whole body. This is known as primary fibromyalgia.
In secondary fibromyalgia patients have already inflammatory rheumatic autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus one or Sjogren's syndrome.
Frequency
From a fibromyalgia about 3% of the population are affected in the majority of women are affected.
Symptoms
- Severe pain especially the muscles and tendons
- General symptoms such as fatigue, sleep disorders and depression
Diagnosis
- In fibromyalgia, there are no typical laboratory or X-ray findings
- Typical are the very painful fibromyalgia pressure points (tender-points) to the tendon, ie in the vicinity of the joints