Dry Eyes Syndrome. Up to a third of patients with FM report dry eyes. Many have to use eye drops to prevent painful reddened eyes. Tension headaches are also called muscle contraction headaches, which usually begin at the base of the neck and extend upward to the temples, often forming what is described as a band-like squeezing headache. Migraine headaches are vascular headaches in which some event triggers the blood vessels to the brain to constrict and then dilate, leading to a severe headache, nausea, vomiting, eye pain, and other symptoms.
Many people have headaches which have both tension and migraine features.
The individual may feel like he or she has a bladder infection with frequent painful urination, but urine tests do not reveal any evidence of infection. Irritable Bowel Syndrome or Spastic Colon. Nearly half of patients with FM have frequent bowel cramping, diarrhea, and constipation. MVP is a condition where one of the heart valves, the mitral valve, bulges excessively during the heartbeat. It can be diagnosed by listening with a stethoscope for the characteristic click-murmur, or it can be detected with a soundwave test called an echocardiogram.