What is Fibromyalgia?

Fibromyalgia is considered a controversial diagnosis, due to lacking scientific consensus to its cause. Not all members of the medical community consider fibromyalgia a disease because of a lack of abnormalities on physical examination and the absence of objective diagnostic tests. [ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibromyalgia]


It is estimated that 2% – 4% of the population could have fibromyalgia and many of these will have spent years suffering pain and fatigue before being diagnosed.  Others are worrying about their pain and fatigue without being diagnosed.  Many people have been diagnosed because they recognised the symptoms from media information and asked their doctors if fibromyalgia could be the cause of the different aches and pains that they had been trying to cope with. [ref: http://elmoreoil.com.au/articles/its-fibromyalgia-awareness-week/]