Fibromyalgia is a chronic health condition causing severe pain around most body parts. In addition to the widespread pain, this condition also leads to symptoms like mental fog, depression, and tiredness.
Experiencing pain is one of the many common conditions; therefore, doctors do not immediately consider fibromyalgia during the evaluation of these types of symptoms. That explains why it may take an average of five years before people get diagnosed with this health condition.
Also, being able to identify the location and type of pain, and other symptoms you living with, can help with the diagnosis of fibromyalgia. Getting diagnosed faster means you get started on a treatment to help alleviate those symptoms.
Here’s detailed information on familiar and a few unusual symptoms of fibromyalgia you should know. [1]
Pain
One of the significant symptoms of fibromyalgia is pain. Most people with fibromyalgia experience ache all over. And, sometimes feel similar to tendinitis, bursitis, and osteoarthritis – but all over your body rather than just somebody part. However, somebody part may ache more such as your neck or back.
The widespread pain is likely to experience continuously, although at some point it may be more severe or better. This is what usually forces you to visit a doctor.
The pain can be sharp, throbbing, deep, dull or aching. You feel it around the joint’s ligament, in your tendons and muscles. You may also find some tender point painful whenever you apply pressure on these spots with your fingers. For people who are not living with fibromyalgia, they would only feel the pressure. But for a fibromyalgia patient, that same pressure hurt more. [2]
