Cure For Fibromyalgia - By: Michael Little

There are many unknowns with fibromyalgia. Experts are not sure what causes it or how to deal with it. They don’t know what might cure it, if anything. They don’t know why it seems to affect more women than it does men. They often don’t even know you have it, and missed diagnoses are very common.

So what do we know about fibromyalgia? It has nothing to do with arthritis, because arthritis involves the skeletal system, while fibromyalgia affects the muscular system. It’s a chronic condition, and it can last a long time, possibly even afflict you for your entire life. It normally develops in 20-50 year olds, and four to six million Americans have it. It prevents you from a restful sleep. We know, thankfully, that it’s a progressive disease.

There is hope on the horizon though, for the millions who live every day with constant pain and muscle stiffness. Research continues to find a cause for fibromyalgia and the hope is, once a caused has been identified, work can begin to find a cure.
Some experts are beginning to believe the underlying cause of fibromyalgia is related to disturbances in the endocrine system and the autonomic nervous system. More specifically, the stress response of both those systems.

The crossing over of the nervous system with the endocrine system, referred to as ‘neuroendocrine axis’, has been studied closely in relation to the sleep disturbances found in most fibromyalgia patients. Studies have shown that fibromyalgia patients have their non-REM sleep phase disturbed by alpha waves that shouldn’t be there, often keeping them from moving to stage 3 and stage 4 of sleep.
Insulin growth factor is released during those stages of sleep. A third of Fibromyalgia sufferers have low levels of that hormone because they often don’t reach those stages.

Further studies indicate that by artificially creating the disturbed non-REM sleep, they can actually produce some of the symptoms of fibromyalgia. With alpha waves intruding when they shouldn’t, it’s little wonder that so many fibromyalgia patients endure night after night of ‘non-refreshing’ sleep. Other endocrine and neurological abnormalities they’ve found include elevated levels of certain neurotransmitters in the cerebrospinal fluid that enhance pain perception, up to three times higher than normal levels. Fibromyalgia patients also tend to have lower than normal cortisol production.

While all this may sound very technical to some people, this is the bottom line because now researchers are making progress in the area of finding a cause for fibromyalgia. No one knows how long its going to take to take to pinpoint it exactly, but it should and it will give hope to those poor people suffering from it. Of course, then they’ll have you believe that they are beginning work on how to cure it which could be somewhere in the late future.

Alternatively you’ve landed on the right page. It’s not necessary for you to continue hurting while you wait on scientists to develope a cure. There is a Cure For Fibromyalgia and you can join find more info here http://my-fibromyalgia-cure.blogspot.com/

About the Author

My name is Michael Little I have been studying Fibromyalgia for the past 25 years and continue to write informative articles on Fibromyalgia I also have a blog at http://my-fibromyalgia-cure.blogspot.com/

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