Fibromyalgia and Homeopathy
July 6, 2007
If you feel pain all over your body, muscles ache all over and you frequently feel exhausted and unrefreshed even after a sleep. Also there are these points in your body where slight pressure causes severe pain and it so happens that even after numerous tests no diagnosis has ever been confirmed. If this sounds familiar, you may have fibromyalgia.
What is fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia syndrome is a chronic disorder although it resembles arthritis due to excessive pains, it is not at all like arthritis. It does not cause any damage or inflammation of joints, muscles and tissues.
Widespread muscle pain, fatigue, and multiple tender points are few of the important symptoms that often characterize the disorder. Tender points are specific places on the body where even slightest pressure causes extreme pain?they can be present on the neck, shoulders, back, hips, and upper and lower extremities.
As more medical advancement is being made to understand this strange disorder it is becoming more and more evident that sleep plays an important role in this disease. Usually people with fibromyalgia seem to wake up with tired-up feeling even though they seem to sleep enough. This morning fatigue is being linked to a kind of sleep disorder where a person is not able to go into deep sleep. Recent medical studies have suggested that this sleep problem is due to alpha wave interrupted sleep pattern, a condition where deep sleep is interrupted often by bursts of activity in the brain similar to wakefulness. So people suffering from fibromyalgia are deprived from this restorative phase of sleep.
In addition to the above mentioned symptoms those suffering from fibromyalgia may show a wide array of symptoms-, morning stiffness, headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, painful menstrual periods, numbness or tingling of the extremities, restless legs syndrome, temperature sensitivity, memory problems, depression or a variety of other symptoms
What causes fibromyalgia?
Although it is still unclear as to what causes this disease, some evidence points towards its association with emotional or physical stressful events. Some researchers link this disease to other auto-immune disorders. They believe that those suffering disorders such as arthritis etc. are more likely to develop it. This disorder is more prevalent in females.
Homeopathy and fibromyalgia.
The treatment available with conventional medical system is just palliative, where as Homeopathy offers an effective form of treatment, aiming at curing the disorder. This statement is based on a hardcore research done by the National Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, United States . This study involved patients affected with fibromyalgia; they were selected beforehand according to symptoms referring to a specific homeopathic medicine. The results showed a significant superiority of the homeopathic treatment, as regards pain, the quality of sleep and the overall condition.
Homeopathic treatment in such disorders is based on assessing one individual group of symptoms and thereby finding the most suitable medicine. Mental and physical make-up both are taken into consideration while prescribing. It is this holistic approach that gives homoeopathy an edge over the conventional system.
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Reduce stress levels
As stress causes an increase in the symptoms of fibromyalgia, make sure to reduce your stress levels. Also make sure to follow a regular daily routine as people who tend to reduce their physical work due to pain, end up suffering more.
Getting enough sleep
Ensure adequate sleep in order to reduce fatigue. Follow a regular pattern in going to bed and getting up at the same time each day and limiting daytime napping
Regular exercise
Although initially the exercise would increase the symptoms, but eventually regular exercise would lead to reduction of the symptoms
Eat right
Having a regular balanced diet is essential in fighting all chronic disorders, especially if one suffers from irritable bowel syndrome along with.
Adjust your activities
Keep your daily activities on an even level. If you exert too much on a good day, you might have too many and severe bad days.
his feature ( authored by Dr. Vikas Sharma ) was earlier published in The Tribune(north India?s largest circulated daily newspaper). Dr. Vikas Sharma is regular Homeopathic columnist for The Tribune.You can mail him at vikas@drhomeo.com
is there any specific med for fibromyalgia, csn u please advise me , ive already sent u a mail
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title algia and Homeopathy | Homeopathy at DrHomeo.com. Thanks for informative article
What kind of diet you will recommend .Which food product should be avoided.Is drinking cold milk everyday is ok if one is suffering from fibromyalgia.
Is there any link between fibromyalgia and sleep deprivation?
Dr.,
Stress, lack of sleep, and lack of exercise all contribute to more free radicals in ones body. Is this why high levels of antioxidants are helping relieve fibromyalgia pain? http://nutritionandwealth.blogspot.com
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Hi I am Ashish ;
I just want to confirm whether i have this disease or not so i want to know that in this disease does pain in head increases due to breathing and the pain is relieved when a cloth is kept on nose or when warm air is inhaled???
Sub.: Years of Severe Neurological Tightness in Muscles especially calf muscles and others major disorders/ malfunctions in the body.
Sir,
I am a lawyer working at High Court, Lucknow and a very meritorious student having topped in LL.B. and LL.M. examinations. I started realising tightness specially in my calf muscles in the year 2005 after passing through a five years long phase of stress. I was unable to understand the reason behind the tightness and pain in my legs and initiation of health problems started in January, 2007 by going through when there were stomach disturbance / vomitting and skin roughness in my foot. The physician asked me for a detail blood pathological test and suddenly everything appeared e.g. high cholestrol levels, blood sugar, acidity/collitis etc. I was on the medication and when in July 2007, my left leg started feeling heel pain, I rushed to several orthopedicians / physiotherapist alongwith Cardiologist since my cholestrol levels / sugar was not in control. It was found by a Physiotherapist after two months of exercise in January, 2008 that it was a neurological tightness and I was advised to consult a Neurologist. Thereafter, I consulted several Neurologist in Lucknow/Delhi, in VIMHANS (Delhi) but no one was able to diagnosis the cause of the tightness as every test carried out was normal. Finally I consulted at Fortis Hospital, Noida where again test were made out (EMG & other test), but everything was normal. The Neurologist started my medicine GABAPENTIN on the assumption of Channelopathy, alongwith supplements of calcium / vitamin-E etc. It is relevent to mention that the heaviness in head/
headache/ lethargy/giddiness was treated by a senior Phystriatist at Fortis Hospital, Noida, giving antideprission medicines such as VENLOR XR 75, SENSIV AL25, RIVOTRIL 0.5 MG etc. The treatment of Cardiologist for control of high cholestral / blood sugar etc. was in regular continuation The muscles tightness which was released daily by a qualified Physiotherapist at Lucknow started some signs of relief with GABAPENTIN (Treatment of Neurologist) till March 2009 (reliefupto 60%), after which it became stagnant. Some tests such as LDH, CPK & Resting Plasma Lactate were made out which were much higher in value. On my compalint of down fall of relief, PREGABID ME-75 was started in place of GABAPENTIN on 13.05.2009. Again in June, 2009, several tests including MRI of brain and survical were made, but the down fall which started inspite of regular medicine and physiotherapy slashly fell from July, 2009 to Oct, 2009 from 60% to 10%. Another symptom for the past 1 year was spreading of tightness of muscles in neck, abdomen, sholder and stomach muscles. Sleeping disorder with severe weakness in the body alongwith heaviness in head and emptyness of head was also enhancing. Some times I was not able to even stand due to pain, cramps and weakness in calf muscles. The goldenera of my legal career is on the threshold as I was not able to concentrate & Letharginess in whole body made me lying on the bed for hours daily.
In Oct. 2009 the assumption of Channelopathy / Stiffness was made a question mark by the Neurologist and he started thinking of FIBROMYLGIA giving PRE GALIN 75/150 MG alongwith ZYLENO FORTE and antidepression medicine. At present, the tightness of muscles and other symptoms mentioned above are at their extreme. There has been no option else left with the patient now. Please guide me accordingly I would be highly thankful.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully
(Manmohan Singh)
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