{"id":13156,"date":"2025-10-24T12:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13156"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:44:00","slug":"what-is-fibromyalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-fibromyalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Fibromyalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Fibromyalgia Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fibromyalgia condition is often misunderstood, but it is real and is believed to affect 2 to 3% of the population globally.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Fibromyalgia<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>long-term (chronic) health condition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that <\/span><b>causes pain and tenderness<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the muscles and soft tissues of the body.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is often accompanied by <\/span><b>fatigue, sleep disturbances, memory<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> issues and mood problems such as stress, anxiety and depression.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It causes <\/span><b>musculoskeletal pain and fatigue<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Causes for Fibromyalgia<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>cause of fibromyalgia is not known<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but studies show that people with the disorder have a heightened sensitivity to pain, so they feel pain when others do not.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People with fibromyalgia usually experience symptoms that come and go in periods called flare-ups.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Symptoms of fibromyalgia<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two most common symptoms of fibromyalgia <\/span><b>are pain and fatigue<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Other symptoms include,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Headaches and migraines, digestive problems such as diarrhoea and constipation, <\/span><b>restless leg syndrome,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as well as face and jaw pain such as <\/span><b>temporomandibular jaw disorders.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Treatment of Fibromyalgia<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While there is <\/span><b>no cure for fibromyalgia,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a variety of medications can help control symptoms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Treatment typically involves a combination of exercise or other movement therapies, psychological and behavioural therapy, and medications.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/all-you-need-to-know-about-fibromyalgia\/article70186253.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fibromyalgia is a long-term (chronic) health condition that causes pain and tenderness in the muscles and soft tissues of the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":69936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3373],"class_list":{"0":"post-13156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-fibromyalgia","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}