As people in the fibro community know – facts about the prevalence and nature of the condition are pretty sparse. Even today there are some Doctors who deny its very existence. Diagnosis and many of our readers pointed out here can be very difficult. For lots of reasons as you can see.

Indeed it is unclear still if fibromyalgia is an autoimmune condition. Now, as it happens, autoimmune conditions seem to impact more women then men. According to the American Government’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases between 80-90% of those affected are women.

But is this actually true?

A way of finding out is to ask you the fibromyalgia community. So we have set up a poll to ask people with fibro what gender they are.

The poll is below but do feel free to share it with as many people as possible. The larger the sample the more accurate the results!

Thanks for your help.