When Langer returned home, she continued to seek out her own solutions for feeling better. I learned to not over-focus on feeling bad. Each patient is unique and has different symptoms. These points are often right where a muscle's tendon attaches to a bone or right in the middle of a muscle. Diagnosis requires presence of at least 11 of the 18 possible points.
Many people have a high tolerance for pain, so they never produce a reaction.
This way he can better monitor its progress or improvement. Treatment Weinberger says most treatments for fibromyalgia are multi-faceted but address several common elements. Weinberger recommends moderate exercise later in the day to help strengthen muscles, reduce pain, and promote better sleep. So it's often helpful to prescribe something that helps them get more non-REM sleep. Weinberger says that non-REM sleep is the truly restful sleep that most people with fibromyalgia have difficulty getting.