Fibromyalgia is not a disease.

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Fibromyalgia is not a disease, but a painful chronic condition.

1) Introduction • Is one of the most devastating and misunderstood illnesses of our time.

•  Wake up day after day feeling exhausted and in pain
•  Frustration of not being believed and being told that there’s nothing wrong with you.

If you have fibromyalgia, you want answer to these basic questions:

• Why did this happen to me?

• How can I bei in so much pain all the time?

• Why am I so exhausted? • Why is there a always something else wrong with my body?

• What can I do to get better?

2) Common Fibromyalgia Symptoms

• Widespread, variable aches and pains • Fatigue • Morning stiffness • Restless sleep • Pain  exacerbated by excise • Non-inflammatory pain that doesn’t respond to medication •  Increasze sensitivity to allergens • Confusion or difficulty concentrating • headaches • abdominal  cramping • numbness or tingling • easily irritated skin • sensitivity to temperature • sensitivity to  bright light or loud noises • sensitivity to intense tastes or smells • skin that readily flushes • discomfort in crowds

3) In a Nutshell

• People with firbromyalgia have an overactive sympathetic nervous system, also known as the body’s fight-or-flight response.
•  An overactive fight-or-fight response results in the continual release of adrenaline, dopamine, and other important stress-related hormones. If this elevated fight-or-flight activity continue, dopamine will become depleted.
•  Disruption in your sleep cycle ( prevent dopamine from replenished at night)
• Dopamine act as a filter, a pain blocker. If you lost its protection, your sensations are suddenly amplified.
• The pain cause by depleted dopamine continues to trigger the fight-or flight response, and fibromyalgia become a self-perpetuating illness.

4) Firbromyalgia Cycle initiated

The three categories of triggers for fibromyalgia are:

•  Sleep disruption - sleep apnes, restless legs syndrome, physical pain, chronic painful disorder, painful trauma, psychological stress, anxiety and panic disorder, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder
•  Physical pain
•  Psychological stress Cycle of the Fibromyalgia Poor Sleep + Stress + Depress ⇒ Depleted Dopamine • ⇒ Fibromyalgia initiated⇒ Pain

5) Woman are more suscequences and severe Firbromyalgia.

• Genetic difference in fight- or- flight response

• Thendency to be easily aroused from sleep

6) The pain threshold The amount of dopamine in a person’s brain determines his or her pain threhold.

If the pain registers 10 on the severity scale

• Healthy person- normal level of dopamine (5) feel pain severity of (5), 10-5=5
• Moderate Fibromyalgia- reduce level of dopamine (2) feel pain severity of (, 10-2=8
• Severe Fibromyalgia- no pain threshold remaining, feels a suicidal pain, 10-0-10  

7) Do I have Fibromyalgia?

• a history of widespread musculoskeletal pain lasting longer than three months in all four quadrants of the body.
• eighteen different tender points across the body

 Posssible Fibromyalgia Tender points

9) How can Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine help?

•  Improving sleep quality by reduce stress and relax the muscle and mind
•  Stimulate the secretion of the dopamine to increase the pain threshold. Reduce the sensation of feeling the pain.
•  Relieve fatigue, depression and anxiety symptoms
• Break the Firbromyalgia Cycle and working toward to the recovery.