Many people with fibromyalgia find that stress makes their symptoms worse. Reducing stress, or finding healthy ways to cope with it, may help reduce your pain.

Many conditions are reported either to be associated with fibromyalgia or to share similar symptoms. Because there are so many other conditions with similar symptoms, diagnosing fibromyalgia can be difficult.

Because fibromyalgia is difficult to diagnose and sometimes occurs with other muscle or joint diseases or chronic pain conditions, determining just how many people have this condition is difficult.

Learn about fibromyalgia symptoms and when its important to call your doctor.

For fibromyalgia, call your doctor if you have had the following symptoms for more than 6 weeks without an obvious cause: widespread muscle tenderness and pain, particularly on both sides of the body, disturbed sleep, and muscle and joint stiffness that d