what is fibrosis neuralgia?
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It is hard to define,any pain that lasts for months with no reason,being tired all the time,muscle pain for no reason,headaches that aren't the usual. Dr's are hard pressed for a diagnoses.
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Wow sorry to hear about this. I myself have MS with Chronic pain so I know exactly where you are coming from because that was my diagnosis along with fibromyalgia for many years.\nLearn to pace yourself and to stop beating yourself up because you CAN'T do it today.\n It isn't easy but with time it will be\n Check out the fibro site below they offer some pretty good advice on dealing with all those issues you mention.
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Fibromyalgia, Reflex sympathic dystrophy, chronic fatigue, cirvical spondelosis, myofacicia, osteo arthritis, and carpel tunnes SYNDROME. \nIf you find any real, true, successful, treatments, please let me know.
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If I were you I'd go and see your doctor. You need to confirm that what you think is nerve pain is that and not due to swelling or muscle damage etc.\n\nThere are some drugs good for nerve pain,some antiepileptics are effective, but only available on prescription.\n\nHope this helps and that you feel better soon
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Here is a study that explains why people with Fibromyalgia are always in pain.\nFibromyalgia pain, isn't all in patients' heads new brain study finds.\nJune 7, 2002 fMRI scans give first objective measure of mysterious ailment, provide road map for future study\n\n\n\nANN ARBOR, MI - A new brain-scan study confirms scientifically what fibromyalgia patients have been telling a skeptical medical community for years: They're really in pain.\n\nIn fact, the study finds, people with fibromyalgia say they feel severe pain, and have measurable pain signals in their brains, from a gentle finger squeeze that barely feels unpleasant to people without the disease. The squeeze's force must be doubled to cause healthy people to feel the same level of pain - and their pain signals show up in different brain areas.\n\nThe results, published in the May issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism, the journal of the American College of Rheumatology, may offer the proof of fibromyalgia's physical roots that many doubtful physicians have sought. It may also open doors for further research on the still-unknown causes of the disease, which affects more than 2 percent of Americans, mainly women.\n\nLead authors Richard Gracely, Ph.D., and Daniel Clauw, M.D., did the study at Georgetown University Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health, but are now continuing the work at the University of Michigan Health System. In an editorial in the same issue, Clauw and U-M rheumatologist Leslie Crofford, M.D., stress the importance of fibromyalgia research and care.\n\nTo correlate subjective pain sensation with objective views of brain signals, the researchers used a super-fast form of MRI brain imaging, called functional MRI or fMRI, on 16 fibromyalgia patients and 16 people without the disease. As a result, they say, the study offers the first objective method for corroborating what fibromyalgia patients report they feel, and what's going on in their brains at the precise moment they feel it. And, it gives researchers a road map of the areas of the brain that are most - and least - active when patients feel pain.\n\n"The fMRI technology gave us a unique opportunity to look at the neurobiology underlying tenderness, which is a hallmark of fibromyalgia," says Clauw. "These results, combined with other work done by our group and others, have convinced us that some pathologic process is making these patients more sensitive. For some reason, still unknown, there's a neurobiological amplification of their pain signals."\n\nFurther results from the study were presented last year at the ACR annual meeting. The project will continue later this year at UMHS, joining other fMRI fibromyalgia research now under way.\n\nFor decades, patients and physicians have built a case that fibromyalgia is a specific, diagnosable chronic disease, characterized by tenderness and stiffness all over the body as well as fatigue, headaches, gastrointestinal problems and depression. Many patients with the disease find it interferes with their work, family and personal life. Statistics show that far more women than men are affected, and that it occurs mostly during the childbearing years.\n\nThe ACR released classification criteria for fibromyalgia in 1990, to help doctors diagnose it and rule out other chronic pain conditions. Clauw and Crofford's editorial looks at the current state of research, and calls for rheumatologists to take the lead in fibromyalgia care and science.\n\nBut many skeptics have debated the very existence of fibromyalgia as a clearly distinct disorder, saying it seemed to be rooted more in psychological and social factors than in physical, biological causes. Their argument has been bolstered by the failure of research to find a clear cause, an effective treatment, or a non-subjective way of assessing patients.\n\nWhile the debate has raged, neuroscientists have begun to use brain scan technology to identify the are
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Try this link. It appears to be a benign tumor-like growth, and depending on the area is usually a surgical removal. It is actually spelles neurofibroma. Good Luck!!http://www.thedoctorsdoctor.com/diseases/neurofibroma.htm
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You may be looking for "Mirapex" to treat "Fibromyalgia".\n\nHere's a link to a story about Mirapex being used to treat Fibromyalgia,  \n\nhttp://www.news8austin.com/content/living/health_beat/default.asp?ArID=151477
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I know how you feel. My mother was diagnosed with fibromyalgia about 8 years ago. She is in shocking pain for which she takes prednisolone. She is allergic to many things so this is her only option. She also suffers from extreme tiredness and very weak and sore muscles. She also has Mitochondriamyopathy which contributes to the fibromyalgia. I have been having a lot of trouble for several years now and my physiotherapist thinks I have fm as well. I can understand how you must feel. Are you very sensitive to touch? that seems to be a major problem for my mother and I. I don't know if there is any other suggestion to help with pain since you are on meds, apart from hydrotherapy which is what I am doing at the momment. It allows you to get moving more freely without the weight of your body putting strain on your muscles. Keep moving for as long as you can, the hydro really does help. Good luck.
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Yes.  In the back, down the legs, it's called sciatica.  In the stomach, I'm not sure.  But you should see a rheumatologist, fibromyalgia could be causing the problem.  Mine sent me to a neurologist, and he diagnosed me with neuropathy, but trust me; get it treated quickly; I put it off till my hands were limp at the wrist and I couldn't stand on my legs....
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Anti-inflammatories, pain medications and neurogenics are popular choices depending on the severity of the Fibromyalgia.  Some patients respond well to massage, physiotherapy, aquatic therapy and acupuncture therapy as well.
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Neurofibromatosis is an inherited neurological disorder characterized by lumps called neurofibromas that accumulate on the skin. These neurofibromas are benign, slow-growing tumors caused by genetic mutations on chromosome 17.\n\nThere is another, rarer form of neurofibromatosis in which no neurofibromas occur, but other symptoms such as skeletal deformities still occur. This other type is caused by a mutation of chromosome 22.
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Fibromyalgia (pronounced "fie-bro-my-al-jia") is not a disease but a collection of symptoms (referred to as a syndrome) characterized by widespread musculoskeletal aches and pains, stiffness, fatigue and muscle spasms. The exact etiology of FS has not been identified although a myriad of mechanisms have been proposed, including inability to acquire appropriate sleep, micro-circulation disturbances, hormonal changes and others.
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In my experience pain medications do not work. My best advise is make sure to get plenty of sleep, take a multiple vitamin, keep active in at least low impact sports, and consider Magnesium and Malic Acid supplements (consult the doctor or a nutritionist to have your Magnesuim level checked- it is a simpe mouth swab and not painful), meditation does help some in keeping the pain back if you can seperate your mind from the pain, and try to take 2-3 warm Epson Salt baths a week (Epson salt contains Magnesium and soaking in a warm tub of it helps to get the mineral into the body. Magnesium aids the muscles in using oxygen and when the level is low which is typical in Fibro it can cause are cramps, spasms, and pain.) Also, Fibromyalgia is a neurotransmitter disorder certain foods can trigger similiar symptoms to Fibro. Try eliminating Monsodium Glutamate from your diet. I did and some of my symptoms (chronic headaches and nausea) went away. It is in everything from Doritos to chicken soup. A few key finding's of an FDA study found MSG to cause a "burning sensation in the back of the neck, forearms and chest". If you need adjustments try to see a D.O. instead of a chiropractor. Chiros tend to be a little more violent in their adjustments and can cause more pain in your soft tissue. D.O.s do a more passive adjustment which I've found to be much more beneficial. Otherwise, learn your limits and pace yourself.\nGood luck!
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neuritis is inflammation of a nerve(s)\nneuralgia is nerve-type pain, i.e. sharp, hot, with tingling or numbness, as opposed to 'myalgia' muscle type pain, which is dull and achy.\nI imagine the last one refers to nerves that are key to muscle contraction. they hook into the motor endplates of the muscle.
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what kind of doctor have you seen? have you seen a neurologist? it sounds like it could be a neuralgia if it's not a skin condition. there are a bunch of different types of neuralgias, is it just the top/back/sides/all over your scalp? how about your forehead or other areas of your face?
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Check out www.fibromyalgiatreatment.com/.  \n\nThen get the entire family checked for hyperinsulinemia - a precursor condition for hypoglycemia (a sometimes concurrent condition with fibromyalgia), diabetes and heart trouble.\n\nFor basic information on hyperinsulinemia, check out www.hufa.org.
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Symptoms of fibro vary from person to person, but can include:\n\nwidespread pain, in all areas of the body (meaning not just right or left, legs or trunk, but everywhere) that is not the result of a known disease or trauma.  This is usually described to non-fibromites the following way:  remember the last time you had the flu - your body ached all over, right?  Just imagine that it does that every day and now you know a little about fibro.\n\nit has been going on for at least 6 months\n\nfatigue - knock you down, can't stay awake for another second, hope I'm not driving a car when it hits kind of fatigue\n\nsleep disturbances\n\nmemory problems\n\nproblems with heat or cold\n\nirritable bowel/irritable bladder\n\nbeing touched, even a soft touch, can hurt\n\ngrinding your teeth\n\nheadaches\n\nmenstrual pain\n\nsensitivity to brignt light or loud noises\n\nstiffeness upon waking or when walking after sitting for  long time\n\nSorry, no cure yet.  You can manage it.  I take OTC meds like Midol and Pamprin if I absolutely have to.  I can't stay in bed for more than 8 hours at a time or I feel worse, even if I haven't slept well.  I get up and do what needs to be done and take a nap later.\n\nAvoid heat or high humidity.  This seems to aggravate the fatigue.  I worked in an office where the boss was cold natured, so she kept the building warm, and it made me SO sick.  I also can't spend a lot of time outside in the summer.\n\nAbove all, avoid stress.  This is the biggest trigger I know of.\n\nThere are plenty of web sites that can give you more information, but if you think you have it go see a doctor.  When you call for the appointment, make sure the dr treats fibro.  Even now, some of them don't believe in it and will treat you like a slacker.\n\nGood luck and blessed be,\n\nGypsy