Fibromyalgia is a disorder that causes widespread and constant body pain, sleep disturbances and extreme tiredness, however, it can cause a number of additional discomforts. Here are 100 possible characteristics and symptoms that may accompany this disease:
- Isolation
- Allergy to certain medicines, foods and food additives
- Allodynia, things that are usually not painful, like a brush or a gust of wind.
- High levels of substance P, responsible for increased levels of pain
- Tonsillitis and laryngitis frequent
- Anguish
- Anxiety
- Asthenia (fatigue and physical weakness)
- Increased pain after periods of stress or anxiety
- Increased pain after exaggerating in time or intensity the performance of certain daily activities
- Unexplained weight gain or loss
- Low self-esteem or feeling that you are not valued
- Low libido
- Dry mouth
- Bruxism, teeth grinding
- Night cramps and spasms
- Interstitial cystitis; pain or burning when urinating, urgent urge to urinate often
- Costochondritis, chest and chest pain caused by inflammation of the cartilage that connects the ribs to the sternum
- Cry crying
- Panic crisis
- Magnesium deficiency
- Depression
- Imbalance or instability, you feel poorly coordinated in the body
- Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep for a long time
- Difficulty in expressing or communicating
- Difficulty lifting or lowering arms
- Difficulty in relaxing
- Difficulty climbing or descending stairs
- Dysphagia, difficulty swallowing
- Dysmenorrhea, very painful menses
- Decreased leg strength
- Decreased hearing acuity
- Decreased exercise tolerance
- Decreased physical performance
- Decreased intellectual performance
- Dyspnea, shortness of breath
- Chewing pain
- Pain before pressure in at least 11 of the 18 sensitive points in the body
- Joint pain; the joints are not affected, but it seems that they came from them
- Pain of the temporo-mandibular joint (when opening or closing the mouth)
- Earache or itching in the ears
- Pain in the whole body
- Pain in and behind the eyes, fibromyalgia can also cause pain in the eye muscles.
- Sinus pain, similar to sinusitis without radiological signs
- Headaches
- Spontaneous, diffuse and painful pains in muscles, tendons, ligaments and skin
- Endometriosis, which causes pain in the lower abdomen, menstrual irregularities and infertility
- Celiac disease, gluten intolerance
- Numbness
- Chills
- Lack of strength to articulate words, lack of voice
- Raynaud’s phenomenon (change in color and temperature reduction in fingers, ears, nose)
- Fibroniebla o niebla cerebral
- Photophobia, inability to withstand strong daylight or artificial light flashes
- Hypersensitivity to certain odors, such as shampoo, cleaning products, perfumes, gasoline, cigar, etc.
- Hypersensitivity to noise, a sound can cause high irritability, headache and nausea in the person
- Humor Change
- Inadaptation to effort
- Irritability
- Slight clumsiness when on the go; The person is injured, collides or trips for no apparent reason.
- Difficult chewing, difficulty in biting an apple
- Low levels of serotonin, which helps regulate pain
- Low levels of vitamin D, its adequate intake is essential to keep the muscles free of pain and improve fatigue
- Dry eyes, itching, redness and a feeling of sand
- Rapid, irregular heartbeat or palpitations
- Paresthesias, tingling in the extremities
- Hair loss, especially in periods of stress or outbreaks
- Loss of manual grip strength
- Dry, scaly or rough skin
- Presence of some other rheumatic disease, such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis
- Problems of concentration
- Memory Problems
- Thyroid problems
- Vision problems
- Mitral valve prolapse
- Breathe fast and small rather than slow and deep
- Stiffness, especially after staying too long in one position
- Feeling confused
- Feeling weak, people feel that at any moment they will fade
- Sensation of needing someone’s support to walk
- Feeling of itching and need to itch (especially at the ankle and forearm level)
- Feeling of hearing ear canal, excess of wax
- Sensation of having mucus in the pharynx
- Sensitivity to humidity; Some people feel worse in dry environments than in humid environments, or vice versa
- Sensitivity to atmospheric pressure; when there is a storm the atmospheric pressure falls and the pain increases
- Sensitivity to ambient temperature; It is very hot in summer and very cold in winter
- Sensitivity when using lenses, causing pain in the face, nose, ears and even teeth.
- Sensitivity in the neck of the tooth (area that connects the tooth to the gingiva)
- Extreme sensitivity to the scalp
- Irritable bladder syndrome, loss of urine at least effort
- Restless Legs Syndrome, an uncontrollable desire to move legs
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome
- Irritable bowel syndrome, extreme sensitivity to bowel muscle contractions
- Faces
- Abundant sweat
- Sleep does not refresh, the person wakes up as if he has not slept all night
- Vertigo, feeling of spinning or not having contact with the ground
- Double vision, blurred or changing
- Vulvodynia, chronic vulvar pain that makes sex, exercise or sitting very difficult
- Ringing in the ears
How many of these symptoms do you have? What are you doing to address them?
