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Because the most common symptoms of fibromyalgia involve pain and problems with motor control, the prevailing view is that dysfunction in the nervous system causes the disease. But a study published Thursday (July 1) in
suggests the disease may actually be caused by antibodies that interact with the nervous system.
“The widespread paradigm at the moment is that this is a disease that emanates from the brain,” lead author David Andersson of King’s College London tells
. “I think our findings suggest that that’s not the case.”
Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a painful and poorly understood chronic illness that causes widespread pain, emotional distress, fatigue, and brain fog. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that it affects at least 2 percent of the adult population in the US, and according to
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The cause of a mysterious illness that affects millions of people, yet has struggled to be recognised as real, might finally have been discovered.
People with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS or simply fibromyalgia) experience a heightened response to physical stimuli and pain. It affects somewhere between 2 to 8 percent of the population, previous research has found, but it s difficult to diagnose because there aren t any obvious observable physical symptoms, nor does it damage tissue.
There have been numerous different treatments tried but with only limited success, since no one s been sure what s behind it - the most common explanation being that patients brains process pain abnormally.