Fibromyalgia causes pain in muscles and joints throughout the body. It can also make you feel fatigued and cause mental symptoms like memory problems. Experts don’t know what causes fibromyalgia — in allopathy there’s no cure for it — but a Homeopathic healthcare provider will help you find treatments to completely cure and healthy life.

Anyone can develop fibromyalgia. It affects people of any age, including children. People assigned female at birth (AFAB) and people older than 40 are more likely to be diagnosed with fibromyalgia. People with fibromyalgia are usually more sensitive to pain than most people.

Fibromyalgia is a long-term (chronic) health condition that causes pain and tenderness throughout the body. It causes musculoskeletal pain and fatigue.

People with fibromyalgia usually experience symptoms that come and go in periods called flare-ups. Sometimes, it can feel exhausting and challenging to navigate living with fibromyalgia. The peaks and valleys between feeling good and suddenly having a flare-up of symptoms can feel overwhelming. Fibromyalgia is real, and so is how you feel.

Experts don’t know what causes fibromyalgia, but studies have found that certain health conditions, stress and other changes in life might trigger it. You might be more likely to develop fibromyalgia if one of your biological parents has it. Any new pain in the body is often the first sign of fibromyalgia — especially in the muscles.

Symptoms and Causes

Fibromyalgia can cause physical, mental and emotional symptoms.

The two most common symptoms of fibromyalgia are pain and fatigue. You may experience:

• Muscle pain or tenderness.
• Fatigue.
• Face and jaw pain (temporomandibular joint disorders).
• Headaches and migraines.
• Digestive problems, including diarrhea and constipation.
• Bladder control issues.

Fibromyalgia can cause mental and emotional symptoms, including:

• Memory problems (sometimes called “fibro fog” or “brain fog”).
• Anxiety.
• Depression.
• Insomnia and other sleep disorders.

Risk factors for fibromyalgia

Even though experts can’t say for sure what causes fibromyalgia, some health conditions and other issues are risk factors for developing it. Fibromyalgia risk factors include:

• Age: People older than 40 are more likely to develop fibromyalgia. But it can affect anyone, including children.
• Sex assigned at birth: People assigned female at birth are twice as likely to experience fibromyalgia.
• Chronic illnesses: People with conditions like osteoarthritis, depression, anxiety disorders, chronic back pain and irritable bowel syndrome are more likely to develop fibromyalgia.
• Infections: Some people develop fibromyalgia after having sever infection.
• Stress: Too much stress can affect your health.
• Traumas: Physical or emotional trauma or a serious injury sometimes develop fibromyalgia.

What triggers a fibromyalgia flare-up?

Certain events or changes in life can trigger a fibromyalgia flare-up. Everyone is different, and what triggers symptoms for some people might not for other. In general, anything that increases stress can trigger a flare-up, including:

• Emotional stress (job, financial situation or social life).
• Changes in daily routine life.
• Changes in diet or not getting enough nutrition.
• Hormone
• Not getting enough sleep or changing when you sleep.
• Weather or temperature changes.
• Getting sick.
• Starting new medication or treatments or changing something in usual fibromyalgia treatment routine.

Diagnosis and Tests

A doctor will diagnose fibromyalgia with a physical exam and discussion of health history. They’ll ask about the symptoms and when patient first noticed them.

There’s no test that can diagnose fibromyalgia. Usually, diagnosing it is part of a differential diagnosis — by comparing several conditions with related symptoms. This process leads to the final diagnosis.

Use blood tests to rule out other common causes of fatigue like anemia or issues with thyroid gland.

Allopathic Treatment for fibromyalgia

There isn’t a single allopathic treatment that works for every person with fibromyalgia. Doctor will work with patient to find a combination of treatments that relieve his symptoms.

Treatments my include:

• Over the counter (OTC) or prescription medicine/painkillers to relieve pain.
• Exercises like stretches or strength training.
• Sleep therapy.
• Cognitive behavioral therapy.
• Stress management
• Antidepressants.

What are the four stages of fibromyalgia?

Fibromyalgia is a dynamic condition. This means patient won’t experience symptoms in any specific order — there’s no roadmap to know when or how fibromyalgia symptoms will affect the patient.

A doctor might treat fibromyalgia in stages based on how patient feel. These stages aren’t a step-by-step treatment plan. Every person is different, and how fibromyalgia affects a person’s body will be unique. The stages are more like loose categories that can help patient understand which treatments patient will need to manage his/her symptoms.

The four stages of treating fibromyalgia include:

• Non-pharmacological treatments: Advise your patient stretches and exercises to loosen, relax and strengthen your muscles and joints.
• Psychological treatments: A psychotherapist will help the patient identify ways to maintain a healthy self-image and will suggest strategies to manage symptoms that affect patient’s mental and emotional health.
• Pharmacological treatment: Advise medicine to manage the symptoms.
• Daily functioning: An occupational therapist can help the patient to navigate his/her daily routine if patient experiencing severe symptoms that make it hard to participate in regular activities

Complications of fibromyalgia

People with fibromyalgia are more likely to be hospitalized because of pain, fatigue or mental health symptoms. They are also more likely to experience memory problems and have trouble concentrating.

Homeopathy Treatment for fibromyalgia

Every patient with fibromyalgia has their own story, their own constellation of symptoms, their own trigger factors, their own way of coping with the illness. In this kind of situation, the homeopathic approach comes into its own, allowing for the individualization of a remedy or medicine to match the features displayed by the patient. As with most homeopathic treatment, the medicine may be chosen on the basis of the symptoms of the illness, or on the characteristics of the patient as a whole (constitutional prescribing), or both.

Arnica Montana

This medicine is best known for its action on injuries to reduce bruising and swelling. Pain in back and limbs, as if bruised or beaten. Sprained and dislocated feeling. Soreness after overexertion. Everything on which he lies seems too hard. Deathly coldness of forearm. Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain in pelvic region. Injuries, falls, blows, contusions. Putrid phenomena. Septic conditions; prophylactic of pus infection. Apoplexy, red, full face. Stasis. Ecchymosis and hemorrhages. Fibromyalgia. Neuralgias originating in disturbances of pneumo-gastric. Rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders. Comatose drowsiness. Febrile temperature. Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots. To treatment for fibromyalgia Arnica is a good choice.

Arsenicum Album

A profoundly acting medicine on every organ and tissue. Debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation. Severe exhaustion after the slightest exertion. Irritability of fiber – characteristic irritable weakness. Burning pains. Unquenchable thirst. Burning relieved by heat. Injurious effects of fruits, especially more watery ones.

Alcoholism, ptomaine poisoning, stings, dissecting wounds, smoking or chewing tobacco; ill effects from decayed food or animal matter; odor of discharges is putrid; in complaints that return annually. Anemia and chlorosis. Degenerative changes. Gradual loss of weight. Reduces the refractive index of blood serum. Maintains the system under the stress of malignancy regardless of location. Malarial cachexia. Septic infections and low vitality.

Anguish and restlessness – changes place continually. Fears, of death, of being left alone. Great fear, with cold sweat. Thinks it useless to take medicine. Suicidal. Hallucinations of smell and sight. Despair drives him from place to place. Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage.

Rhus Toxicodendron

It effects the skin, rheumatic pains, mucous membrane affections, and a typhoid type of fever, fibrous tissue markedly-joints, tendons, sheaths-aponeurosis, etc, producing pains and stiffness. Post-operative complications. Tearing asunder pains. Motion always “limbers up” the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a change of position. Ailments from strains, overlifting, getting wet while perspiring. Septic conditions. Cellulitis and infections, carbuncles in early stages. Rheumatism in the cold season. Septicemia. fibromyalgia. It is effective for pain and stiffness which is worse when having been still and gets better for getting moving, particularly bad after overdoing things or in cold damp weather, eased by warmth and moderate exercise. Delirium, with fear of being poisoned. Sensorium becomes cloudy. Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed.

Hyociamis

Profoundly disturbed nervous system. Mania of a quarrelsome and obscene character. Inclined to be unseemly and immodest in acts, gestures and expressions. Very talkative, and persists in stripping herself, or uncovering genitals, jealous, afraid of being poisoned, weakness and nervous agitation, hence typhoid and other infections with coma vigil. Tremulous weakness and twitching of tendons. Muscular twitching, spasmodic affections, generally with delirium. Non-inflammatory cerebral activity. Toxic gastritis.

Very suspicious, inclined to laugh at everything. Delirium, with attempt to run away. Low, muttering speech; constant carphologia, deep stupor. Hysterical spasms before menses. Excited sexual desire. During menses, convulsive movements, urinary flux and sweat. Suffocating fits. Spasm, forcing bending forward. Spasms and convulsions. Fibromyalgia. Cramps in calves and toes. Child sobs and cries without waking. Intense sleeplessness. Sopor, with convulsions. Starts up frightened. Coma vigil. Great restlessness; every muscle twitches.

Ruta Graveolens

Best acts upon the periosteum and cartilages, eyes and uterus. Complaints from straining flexor tendons especially. Tendency to the formation of deposits in the periosteum, tendons, and about joints, especially wrist. Fibromyalgia. Overstrain of ocular muscles. All parts of the body are painful, as if bruised. Sprains, lameness after sprains. Jaundice. Feeling of intense lassitude, weakness and despair. Injured “bruised” bones. Spine and limbs feel bruised. Small of back and loins pain. Legs give out on rising from a chair, hips and thighs so weak. Contraction of fingers. Pain and stiffness in wrists and hands. Sciatica; worse, lying down at night; pain from back down hips and thighs. Hamstrings feel shortened. Tendons sore. Aching pain in tendo-Achilles. Thighs pain when stretching the limbs. Pain in bones of feet and ankles. Great restlessness.

Phosphorus

Irritation inflames and degenerates of mucous membranes, serous membranes, spinal cord and nerves – causing paralysis, destroys bone, especially the lower jaw and tibia; fatty degeneration of blood vessels and every tissue and organ of the body and thus gives rise to hemorrhages, and hematogenous jaundice.

Destructive metabolism. Yellow atrophy of the liver and sub-acute hepatitis. Suddenness of symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains, etc. Polycythemia. Fibromyalgia. Blood extravasations: fatty degenerations, cirrhosis, caries, are pathological states often calling for Phosphorus. Muscular pseudo-hypertrophy, neuritis. Inflammation of the respiratory tract. Paralytic symptoms. Ill effects of iodine and excessive use of salt; worse, lying on left side. Tertiary syphilis, skin lesions, and nervous debility. Scurvy. Pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis. Ataxia and adynamic. Osteo myelitis. Bone fragility.

Great lowness of spirits. Easily vexed. Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner. Clairvoyant state. Great tendency to start. Over-sensitive to external impressions. Loss of memory. Memory. Paralysis of the insane. Ecstasy. Dread of death when alone. Brain feels tired. Insanity, with an exaggerated idea of one’s own importance. Excitable, produces heat all over. Restless, fidgety. Hypo-sensitive, indifferent. Neuralgia: parts must be kept warm. Burning pains. Chronic congestion of head. Brain-fag, with coldness of occiput. Vertigo, with faintness.

Conium Maculatum

Difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength, painful stiffness of legs, fibromyalgia etc. Such a condition is often found in old age, a time of weakness, languor, local congestions, and sluggishness. Debility, hypochondriasis, urinary troubles, weakened memory, sexual debility. Trouble at the change of life, old and bachelors. General feeling as if bruised by blows. Great debility in the morning in bed (morning sickness). Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation. Cancerous diathesis. Arterio-sclerosis. Caries of sternum. Enlarged glands. Insomnia of multiple neuritis.

Depression. Depressed, timid, averse to society, and afraid of being alone. No inclination for business or study; takes no interest in anything. Memory weak; unable to sustain ‘any mental effort.

Cimicifuga Racemosa

Has a wide action upon the cerebrospinal and muscular system, upon the uterus and ovaries. Especially useful in rheumatic, nervous subjects with ovarian irritation, uterine cramps and heavy limbs. Its muscular and crampy pains, primarily of neurotic origin, occurring in nearly every part of the body. Agitation and pain indicate. Pains like electric shocks here and there. Migraine. Symptoms referable to the pelvic organs prominent.

Great depression, with dream of impending evil. Fears riding in a closed carriage, of being obliged to jump out. Incessant talking. Hallucination – visions of rats, mice, etc. Delirium tremens; tries to injure himself. Mania following disappearance of neuralgia.

Gelsemium Sempervirens

Centers its action upon the nervous system – various degrees of motor paralysis, general prostration, dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling. Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy. Fibromyalgia. Paralysis of various groups of muscles about the eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Muscular weakness. Complete relaxation and prostration. Lack of muscular co-ordination. General depression from heat of sun (sunstroke). Desire to be quiet, to be left alone. Dullness, languor, listless. “Discerning are lethargies. ” Apathy regarding his illness. Absolute lack of fear. Delirious on falling to sleep. Emotional excitement, fear, etc, lead to bodily ailments. Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news. Stage fright.

Rhododendron Ferrugineum

Rheumatic and gouty symptoms well marked. Rheumatism in the hot season. Fibromyalgia. Aching in temples. Tearing pain in bones. Headache. Ciliary neuralgia. Muscular asthenopia. Prosoplasia; violent jerking pain involving dental nerves, from temple to lower jaw and chin. Violent pleuritic pains. Crampy pain under short ribs. Joints swollen. Gouty inflammation of great toe joint. Rheumatic tearing in all limbs. Stiffness of neck. Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists. Pains in bones in spots and reappear by change of weather.

Ignatia Amara

Hyperesthesia of all the senses, and a tendency to colonic spasms. Mentally, the emotional element is uppermost, and co-ordination of function is interfered with. Jerking of limbs. Pain in tendo-Achillis and calf. Ulcerative pain in soles. Hysteria. Rapid change of mental and physical condition, opposite to each other. Great contradictions. Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling. The superficial and erratic character of its symptoms is most characteristic. Effects of grief and worry. Fibromyalgia. Pain is small, circumscribed spots.

Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and sobbing. After shocks, grief, disappointment. Asthenopia, with spasms of lids and neuralgic pain. Twitching of muscles.

Causticum

Manifests its action mainly in chronic rheumatic, arthritic and paralytic affections, indicated by the tearing, drawing pains in the muscular and fibrous tissues, with deformities about the joints, progressive loss of muscular strength, tendinous contractures. Broken down senile. Restlessness at night, with tearing pains in joints and bones, and faint-like sinking of strength. This weakness progresses until gradually appeared paralysis. Local paralysis, vocal cords, muscles of deglutition, of tongue, eyelids, face, bladder and extremities. Fibromyalgia.

Least thing makes cry. Sad, hopeless. Intensely sympathetic. Ailments from long-lasting grief, sudden emotions. Thinking of complaints, aggravates, especially hemorrhoids. Pain in right frontal eminence.  Sciatica, with numbness. Dull, tearing pain in hands and arms. Heaviness and weakness. Tearing joints. Unsteadiness of muscles of forearm and hand. Numbness; loss of sensation in hands. Contracted tendons. Weak ankles. Cannot walk without suffering. Rheumatic tearing in limbs; better by warmth, especially heat of bed. Burning in joints. Slow in learning to walk. Unsteady walking and easily falling. Restless legs at night. Cracking and tension in knees; stiffness in hollow of knee. Itching on dorsum of feet.

Coffea Cruda

Stimulates the functional activity of all organs, increasing the nervous and vascular activity. Uric acid, irritation of kidneys; muscle and joint pains etc. Fibromyalgia. Great nervous agitation and restlessness. Extreme sensitiveness. Neuralgia in various parts; always with great nervous excitability and intolerance of pain, driving to despair. Unusual activity of mind and body. Bad effects of sudden emotions, surprises, joy, etc. Nervous palpitation. Skin hypersensitive.

Gaiety, easy comprehension, irritability, excited; senses acute. Impressionable, especially to pleasurable impressions. Full of ideas, quick to act. Tossing about in anguish.

Bryonia Alba

Acts on all serous membranes and the viscera they contain. Aching in every muscle. The general character of the pain – stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest. These characteristic stitching pains, greatly aggravated by any motion, are found everywhere, but especially in the chest, worse pressure.

Children dislike being carried or raised. Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy. Complaints apt to develop slowly. Exceedingly irritable; everything puts him out of humor. Delirium; wants to go home; talks of business. Vertigo, nausea, faintness on rising, confusion. Bursting, splitting headache. Drawing in bones towards zygoma.

Magnesia Phos

The great anti-spasmodic remedy. Cramping of muscles with radiating pains. Neuralgic pains relieved by warmth. Fibromyalgia – tired, languid, exhausted etc. Indisposition for mental exertion. Goiter. Laments all the time about the pain. Inability to think clearly. Sleepless on account of indigestion. Vertigo on moving. Aches after mental labor, with chilliness; always better warmth. Involuntary shaking of hands. Paralysis agitans. Cramps in calves. Sciatica; feet very tender. Darting pains. Twitching. Chorea. Writers’ and players’ cramp. Tetanic spasms. Weakness in arms and hands, finger-tips stiff and numb. General muscular weakness.

Kalmia Latifolia

Pains shift rapidly. Nausea and slow pulse. Neuralgia: pains shoot downwards, with numbness. Fulgurating pains of locomotor ataxia. Protracted and continuous fevers, with tympanites. Paralytic sensations: pains and aching in limbs accompany nearly every group of symptoms. Albuminuria. Fibromyalgia.

Pain in front and temporal region from head to nape and to teeth; from cardiac origin. Neuralgia. Stitches in tongue. Stitches and tearing in bones of jaw and face. Pain from neck down arm; in upper three dorsal vertebrae extending to shoulder-blade. Pain down back, as if it would break; in localized regions of spine; through shoulders. Lumbar pains, of nervous origin.

Deltoid rheumatism. Pains from hips to knees and feet. Pains affect a large part of a limb, or several joints, and pass through quickly. Weakness, numbness, pricking, and sense of coldness in limbs. Pains along ulnar nerve, index finger. Joints red, hot, swollen. Tingling and numbness of left arm.

Cimicifuga Racemosa

Has a wide action upon the cerebrospinal and muscular system and uterus and ovaries. Especially useful in rheumatic, nervous patients with ovarian irritation, uterine cramps and heavy limbs. Fibromyalgia. Muscular and crampy pains, primarily of neurotic origin, occurring in nearly every part of the body, agitation and pain, pains like electric shocks here and there. Migraine. Cimicifuga Racemosa lessens the frequency and force of the pulse soothes pain and allays irritability”.

Depression. Incessant talking. Hallucination. Delirium tremens; tries to injure himself. Mania following disappearance of neuralgia. Uneasy, restless feeling in limbs. Aching in limbs and muscular soreness. Rheumatism affecting the belly of muscles, especially large muscles. Chorea accompanied by rheumatism. Jerking of limbs. Stiffness in tendo-Achilles. Heaviness in lower extremities. Heavy, aching, tensive pain.

Acid Phosphoricum

Mental debility first; later physical. Young people who grow rapidly, and who are overtaxed, mentally or physically. Excesses, grief, loss of vital fluids. Pyrosis, flatulence, diarrhea, diabetes, rachitis and periosteal inflammation. Neurosis in stump, after amputation. Hemorrhages in typhoid. Useful in relieving pain of cancer.

Listless. Impaired memory. Apathetic, indifferent. Cannot collect his thoughts or find the right word. Difficult comprehension. Effects of grief and mental shock. Delirium, with great stupefaction. Settled despair. Fibromyalgia. Weak. Tearing pains in joints, bones, and periosteum. Cramps in upper arms and wrists. Great debility. Stumbles easily and makes missteps. Itching, between fingers or in folds of joints.

Kalium Phosphoricum

One of the greatest nerve remedies. Prostration. Weak and tired. Marked disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system. Conditions arising from want of nerve power, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression. The causes are usually excitement, overwork and worry. Adynamic and decay, gangrenous conditions. Fibromyalgia. Suspected malignant tumors. After removal of cancer when in healing process skin is drawn tight over the wound. Delayed labor.

Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy. Indisposition to meet people. Extreme lassitude and depression. Very nervous, starts easily, irritable. Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors. Somnambulance. Loss of memory. Slightest labor seems a heavy task. Great despondency about business. Shyness; disinclined to converse. Paralytic lameness in back and extremities. Exertion aggravates. Pains, with depression, and subsequent exhaustion.

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