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Fibromyalgia

Check Your Fibromyalgia Symptoms

How Does Fibromyalgia Affect Your Life?

Fibromyalgia causes you to hurt all over. Fibromyalgia pain can come from painful tender points, aching muscles, chronic headaches, or neck and back pain. It also can cause fatigue, anxiety, and depression that affect your sleep, your career, or your ability to lead an active life. Take a minute to think about how you have felt over the last six months. Which of these statements describes how fibromyalgia affects your life?

  1. I have deep, sharp, dull, throbbing, or aching pain all over my body that doesn't go away.
  2. On many nights, I have difficulty sleeping because of pain.
  3. I am constantly tired and inattentive during daytime hours.
  4. I have widespread, deep muscle pain and stiffness.
  5. I have painful tender points or localized areas of tenderness around joints that hurt when pressed.
  6. My symptoms make me feel anxious and depressed.
  7. I have searing pain throughout my body that results in forced bed rest, along with loss of activity.
  8. I am unable to exercise and be active.
  9. I am not able to do the things I want to with family or friends, so I spend a lot of time alone.
  10. Chronic fibromyalgia pain has made it hard for me to work at my job.

Reviewed by David Zelman, MD on September 15, 2012

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