As Dr. Moldwin notes, pain with bladder filling—that is, as you take in fluids—is more indicative of IC/BPS than pain with peeing, which is a dead ringer for a UTI.

Nociplastic pain arises from changes in how one's central nervous system processes pain. Fibromyalgia is a condition marked by widespread body aches and tenderness, along with fatigue, and mood ...

Teasing Apart Nociplastic Pain: Key Abnormalities and Risk Factors. The evidence that FM was likely driven more by central nervous system ... In a 2020 study of RA, for example, ...

How to assess the presence of nociplastic pain. The typical pattern of nociplastic pain is fibromyalgia. Patients with fibromyalgia can be identified using the 2016 revision of fibromyalgia diagnostic ...

Nociplastic pain is not included in the PCP definition and should therefore be understood as a descriptor of pain characteristics, rather than a diagnostic entity. Furthermore, current classification ...

An eight-item questionnaire, called Central Aspects of Pain, reliably measures nociplastic pain across a variety of chronically painful musculoskeletal conditions, according to data published in ...

Rheumatologists and rheumatology have had a prominent role in the conceptualisation of nociplastic pain since the prototypical nociplastic pain condition is fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia had been ...

For example, although adverse childhood experiences increase the risk of developing nociplastic pain, only about 10% of those who develop nociplastic pain do so via this pathway.45 Moreover, brain ...

Therefore, investigators aimed to characterize the extent of nociplastic-like and nociceptive inflammatory pain experienced by patients with active RA. The investigators conducted a cross-sectional ...