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Do You Have Fibromyalgia? A Self-Test

     Only your physician can diagnose you with fibromyalgia and then treat you.  Here is a simple self-test that I found in a book to use to help you determine if you may have fibromyalgia syndrome. Grab a scratch piece of paper and jot down your answers to the following “yes” or “no” questions. Then, read my analysis at the end of the list. If you think that you may be a possible candidate for fibromyalgia, make an appointment with your physician and find out for sure. 

1)      Do you have a lot of pain in certain specific areas of your body? If so, do these areas lack any obvious damage (such as bruising or swelling)?

2)      Is your overall body pain sometimes severe?

3)      Do you have trouble sleeping on three or more nights per week?

4)      Do you feel exhausted about half the time or more?

5)      Do people often say that you look sick?

6)      Do you turn down social invitations rather than risk having to go out feeling achy and tired?

7)      Do you find yourself wondering whether your aches and pains will ever go away or if you’ll feel like this forever?

8)      Are you always losing things and forgetting things? Do you have so much mental confusion that you sometimes wonder if it could be an early onset of Alzheimer’s disease?

9)      Are you having trouble finding any real pattern to your pain because some days it’s bad and some days it’s not?

    10) Have you started to feel “down” about your pain and fatigue? Are you wondering whether depression could be the underlying problem?

So what do the results mean, click here to find out