According to a study published in the Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, fibromyalgia is characterised by chronic widespread pain, unrefreshing sleep, physical exhaustion, and cognitive difficulties.
It occurs in all populations throughout the world with a prevalence between 2-4% in general populations.
The brain and spinal cords of fibromyalgia patients change as a result of ongoing nerve stimulation. This alteration entails an aberrant elevation of specific pain-signaling molecules in the brain.
As a result, the brain’s pain receptors appear to form a kind of painful memory and grow more sensitive, causing them to overreact to both painful and nonpainful signals.
An event that results in either physical stress or emotional (psychological) stress is frequently what sets off fibromyalgia.
The pain associated with fibromyalgia is often described as a deep, persistent ache that is accompanied by tenderness in specific points on the body known as “trigger points”.