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Updated: 11:49 AM Mar 8, 2010
Dr. Ricardo Pocurull- Symptoms and Treatments of Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a painful condition that primarily affects women. About seventy five percent of patients are women in the general population, but in the clinic setting, ninety five percent of the patients are women. It affects about two to four percent of the general population.
Posted: 10:58 AM Mar 8, 2010 |
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Fibromyalgia is characterized by wide spread pain, difficulty with sleep, whether it is that patients do not sleep at all or that they have an underlying sleep disorder such as Sleep Apnea. They feel tired all the time and essentially say that they ache all over. Their muscles feel very stiff and they are very tender to touch.
We are starting to get some results from a program that has been in development for the last three or four years. A number of our patients are becoming, in some instances, pain free, and in some instances they are able to get off medication. In other instances they are able to get back to a fairly normal lifestyle, but this takes time and effort on the patient’s part.
