Men with fibromyalgia



FMS or fibromyalgia disease has a very strange and confusing etiology and the cause and diagnosis of the disease has not been ascertained yet. The disorder cripples the individual’s muscles making them weak stiff. The FMS disease comes in different symptoms and makes the diagnosis more difficult. The pain in the muscles and tissues, the tender points on specific regions of the body coupled with constant fatigue are the main symptoms of the disease. The American College of Rheumatology has defined certain diagnostic criteria for the disease. The FMS disease is not contagious and does nothing in terms of the patient’s life expectancy unless there are no other complications of other diseases. it is believed that as many as 80% of fibromyalgia patients are women thus disease mainly affects women but it also affects men which then becomes a different thing.

Disease:

The fibromyalgia disease has been found in women who are of the child bearing age but men are also prone to the disease the ratio for men and women is 9:1. When any man has the disease he does not get the kind of treatment like women do of the same disease because the disorder is mainly associated with women. Men have tough time in dealing with the disease. Study suggests that one out of eight FMS patient is male. The figure may mislead because the disease is so much associated with women that men getting diagnosed with the disorder are quite few even if they may be suffering from FMS. The disease being a woman’s disease many men do not get diagnosed with FMS and the number of unreported FMS men patient may actually be at least thirty percent. The diagnosis of the disease in men gets difficult because men try not to report the severe pain to the physician and they thus report milder pain and get diagnosed for some other disorder. Even the doctors tend to overlook the FMS symptoms in men because they think that it only affects women.

The symptoms of FMS in men are different from women. In some they are located to the specific areas while others report the fatigue sign is the most severe in them. But it has been observed that men tend to have milder pain than women in the FMS disorder. The symptoms in men are short and less frequent than in women. The misreporting of symptoms for FMS in men prevents the right diagnosis of FMS.





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