Anita C. Chandrasekaran, MD, MPH, is a rheumatologist at Hartford Healthcare Medical Group in Connecticut. She is board-certified in both rheumatology and internal medicine. Fibromyalgia, a body ...

Fibromyalgia is a real condition — not imagined. It’s estimated that 10 million Americans live with it. The disease can affect anyone including children but it’s more common in adults.

Many people with fibromyalgia -- a debilitating pain syndrome that affects 2 to 4 percent of the population -- have faced the question of whether the condition is real. Increasingly, though, the ...

Many people with fibromyalgia -- a debilitating pain syndrome that affects 2 to 4 percent of the population -- have faced the question of whether the condition is real. Increasingly, though, the ...

The painful condition affects people physically—but it also comes with mental and emotional effects. LaylaBird / Getty Images Medically reviewed by Anita C. Chandrasekaran, MD Fibromyalgia, a ...

The pain and suffering of those with fibromyalgia is real, even to those who do not believe in the syndrome. 3 But fibromyalgia remains a contested illness, 4 a type of illness “where sufferers ...

Fibromyalgia is a rheumatologic disorder sometimes called fibrositis. It is a common cause of chronic pain in the muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The cause of fibromyalgia is unknown. It is six ...

More than 6 million Americans, 90 percent of them women in their prime, suffer the chronic pain and fatigue of fibromyalgia and sometimes struggle for years before being correctly diagnosed.

Dear F.W.: Fibromyalgia is real. There is no blood test, no X-ray, no scan that substantiates the fibromyalgia diagnosis, but […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 66°F.

What is Fibromyalgia? Is it a real disorder based on biological findings or something one imagines? Across the world millions of people -- most of them women -- complain of chronic pain all over ...

Think about living in constant pain. About having a disease no one knows how to cure. In fact, about having a disease no one even identified until recent years. Fibromyalgia (pronounced Fy-bro-my ...

S.S. Answer: Some of my colleagues still doubt it, but I think that fibromyalgia certainly is a real disease. There is no doubt that there are a large number of people with chronic pain in the ...