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61% of ME/CFS patients also have fibromyalgia?
What does this mean, in terms of symptoms and labs tests, to have both fibromyalgia and ME/CFS? Most of the symptoms of fibromyalgia are the same as those of ME/CFS.
The Canadian Consensus definition document for fibromyalgia says (on page 11):
So does this mean that if you have ME/CFS symptoms with no pain, then you just have ME/CFS? If you have pain as well, then you have ME/CFS + fibromyalgia? And if you have pain, but only mild fatigue, mild PEM, mild cognitive dysfunction, mild cardiac dysfunction, and mild immune dysfunction, then you have only fibromyalgia?
I have noticed of late that the diagnosis of fibromyalgia is thrown around alot more and many i didnt think fit what many of us would see as fibro. One example is a guy i know who has had neck pain for a long time and probably osteoarthritis, his doctor has diagosed him as having fibromyalgia. He doesnt have wide spread pain or bad sleep issues etc he just has ongoing neck pain. Its seems any ongoing pain syndrome is know being called fibro. I think its getting very blurry like chronic fatigue??