Pain and Fibromyalgia – Where does it hurt?


Acupuncture and fibromyalgia

Acupuncture and fibromyalgia

As we all know fibromyalgia is a very painful medical condition. Indeed it is the symptom which gets the most mentions in a lot of the research we have conducted over the years.

In particular members of the fibromyalgia community have localised as well as “all over” pain. Indeed people with fibromyalgia often have severe headaches and women have very painful periods.

But in this blog post and poll I would like to focus the area of fibromyalgia pain which could be referred as “tender points”. Or , put another way, parts of the body where people feel pain when pressure is applied. This is also called Allodynia.

Most often these pressure points will be found:-

  • back of the head
  • area between the shoulders
  • front of the neck
  • top of the chest
  • outside of the elbows
  • top and sides of the hips
  • insides of the knees

but of course their are others.

The aim of this blog is to allow our readers to share a bit more about their tender points. There are two ways you can help. Firstly it would be great if you could take the poll below.

Secondly we would love it if you could share how you treated the pain and the tenderness in the comments section below.


You might also be interested in some previous research we conducted into treatments for fibromyalgia here.

 

RobinKayeSkinner I would love to say I was successful at treating the pain but it is all so temporary that is like a blip on the radar Just so painful some times just cant move and some days bed ridden..

Fibromyalgia. What natural, complementary or alternative treatments have you used for fibromyalgia?

Fibromyalgia Treatments

Fibromyalgia Treatments

As regular  followers of this blog will know we take a great interest in the area of natural, complementary or alternative treatments  for particular medical conditions.

In this blog we would like to focus on the area of fibromyalgia and natural treatments for fibro.  We have covered an overview of the possible treatment in the past so you might like to check out our previous blog on the subject here https://patienttalk.org/natural-treatments-for-arthritis/.

Today we want to find out a bit more about the natural treatments you, our readers, use to help with your FMS.

So we have decided to run a short poll to find out what treatments you have use.  You can find the poll below but it would also be great if you could tell us more in the comments box below.  In particular we are interested in more detail about the fibro treatments and how they worked out for you.

Many thanks in advance!


Fibromyalgia – what treatments do you use for your fibromyalgia? Take our poll

Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia – what treatments do you use for your fibromyalgia? Take our poll.

If you have any comments on your medications please feel free share more information in the comments boxes below