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What Are The Symptoms Of Fibromyalgia?
I have been diagnosed with degenerative disk desease , central canal stynosis, and I have pain in my whole body. sore to touch or bump against something, all joints hurt and cant hardly get up or down without pain in chest shoulders, legs, neck, arms, feet ...could that also be a sign of fibromyalgia? im in terrible pain.
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Fibromyalgia is a bit difficult to diagnose since there are no scans or blood tests for it. It really is a diagnosis of exclusion--made when all other possibilities are ruled out. It does require paired areas of trigger points throughout the body.
If most of your joints are involved, that is more likely an autoimmune disorder like rheumatoid arthritis
Fibromyalgia is a bit difficult to diagnose since there are no scans or blood tests for it. It really is a diagnosis of exclusion--made when all other possibilities are ruled out. It does require paired areas of trigger points throughout the body.
If most of your joints are involved, that is more likely an autoimmune disorder like rheumatoid arthritis
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