Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | Fibromyalgia
Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia affect around 10 million people in the United States alone and millions more worldwide.
The diseases are often confused with each other because many of the symptoms are similar but they do have their own distinct characteristics.
Today in America, around a million people suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome. The disease is noticeable for its intense fatigue, difficulty sleeping and chronic insomnia. Chronic fatigue centers mostly in the joints or muscles and nerves.
Many people with chronic fatigue syndrome also suffer from fibromyalgia. The symptoms for fibromyalgia are severe pain in the neck, shoulders, spine, chest, ribcage, elbow joints, knee joints, hips and arms.
Chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms often exasperate fibromyalgia issues and vice versa. A string of sleepless nights caused by chronic fatigue syndrome can often trigger a wave of back pain or intense fibromyalgia pain in people that makes it impossible to get any sleep.
This creates an endless cycles of chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia loops that make the sufferers life just about unbearable.
This is one of the reasons that fibromyalgia is often sometimes confused with chronic fatigue syndrome. Although they are not exactly the same kind of disease, many of the symptoms are similar.
Just like chronic fatigue syndrome, someone suffering from fibromyalgia tends to feel extreme tiredness, fatigue, lack of concentration, restlessness and an inability to recollect certain events.
Between four to eight million people in the United States alone suffer from fibromyalgia. Some estimates suggest that 5% of the population actually has fibromyalgia and suffer the chronic pain.
One of the diagnostic tests for fibromyalgia is the presence of pain in a majority of particular trigger points throughout the body. Actual symptoms vary from person to person including localized pain, heaviness or weakness causing mobility issues, swelling of the joints and memory and thinking impairment.
