What is fibromyalgia? Fibromyalgia causes pain in your muscles and joints, as well as tenderness when you press certain spots on your body.

Learn more about fibromyalgia, a syndrome with a set of symptoms and no known cause.

The variety and severity of symptoms caused by fibromyalgia vary from person to person.

For most people, fibromyalgia seems to involve a cycle of muscle pain, increased sensitivity to pain, and inactivity that may be made worse by sleep problems and fatigue. Increasing pain causes a person to be less physically active.

Certain factors may increase your risk of developing fibromyalgia. Being female greatly increases your chance of developing this syndrome.

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

There are no specific tests that can confirm a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. It often is diagnosed when other disorders with similar symptoms of chronic pain have been ruled out with lab tests.

Currently, there is no cure for fibromyalgia, but there are many steps you can take to understand your condition and manage your symptoms.

Currently, fibromyalgia can be neither prevented nor cured. But prompt treatment of your symptoms may help reduce the length of a flare-up.

Although fibromyalgia is a chronic condition, there is much you can do to relieve and control your symptoms. Home treatment is the most important part of treating fibromyalgia. There are many things you can do: Exercise regularly. Of all the treatments fo

Medications do not cure fibromyalgia. However, some medicines may help improve fibromyalgia symptoms, especially muscle pain and frequent waking during the night.

There is no surgical treatment for fibromyalgia.

A variety of alternative treatments have been used for conditions like fibromyalgia that cause chronic pain.

A list of resources for information on and treatment of fibromyalgia.

A list of links to information about other conditions that may be related to Fibromyalgia.

A list of resources for information on fibromyalgia.

A list of authors contributing to the topic of fibromyalgia.