Sounds an odd question given that fatigue is one of the severest symptoms of fibromyalgia.

In fact today we are looking at it from another way and would love your help.

The objective of this blog post is explore not fatigue as simply a symptom of fibro but to find out how many people suffer from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (and/or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis).

There seems to be three schools of thought from healthcare professionals. A small minority ( and thankfully getting smaller) who do not think either condition exists. A group who believe that in fact they are exactly the same and yet another who will accepting similar symptoms think they are separate medical conditions.

And fibro is seen as pain based while CFS looks at fatigue.

That being said there is a huge amount of social media output which links CFS and Fibromyalgia. So I have a question for my readers. How many of you have who have been diagnosed with one of the conditions have also been diagnosed with the other?

To help us find out more please take part in the poll below.

Obviously straight diagnostic reporting does not give us the entire picture so please share anything you think would be of interest with our readers in the comments section below. For example if you are a person with fibro do you think your symptoms also match say Myalgic Encephalomyelitis but have not been diagnosed etc.

Everything you have to say if of great interest to please do take part.

Many thanks in advance!