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Many additional research studies were conducted on the muscles of fibromyalgia patients.
Report after report seemed to suggest that their was ?some? type of abnormality
in the muscles of patients with fibromyalgia, but the findings were non-
Thankfully, new research has emerged that has proven very helpful to patients suffering
from fibromyalgia. See while early research reports found common muscle abnormalities
in fibromyalgia patients, newer research suggests that fibromyalgia is a problem
in the nervous system. The muscles have little or nothing to do with the cause of
your pain. So if my muscles are normal why do they ache all the time? It certainly
feels like your muscles ache when you have fibromyalgia. In fact one of the ways
we diagnose fibromyalgia is to press on the muscles to see if they are sensitive.
The pain is very real in fibromyalgia, but it?s not coming from the muscles. To
understand the pain of fibromyalgia, you must first understand how the nervous system
deals with pain. I want you to think of a radio. Specifically the dial on the radio
that controls how loud the music plays. We are going to use the radio as an example
of how your body deals with pain. When the tissues of the body become over stressed
and irritated they activate the nerves that carry pain signals to the brain. This
is like turning the radio up. The brain and spinal cord have switches that turn
the pain signals down or off. Just like lowering the loudness on the radio. So
you have irritation-
I?d like to keep this as simple as possible, but we must talk about one more thing so you can get the big picture. The ?switch? in the body that is supposed to turn down the pain, uses a chemical called serotonin to operate. Without getting too technical serotonin activates several pain control switches in the brain and spinal cord. So in patients who don?t have fibromyalgia when pain signals enter the spinal cord on their way to the brain, serotonin is released and activates many different switches to turn off the pain signal. In other words if the music is too loud serotonin turns down the radio.
So why doesn?t serotonin turn off my pain signals like it?s supposed to?
