Objectives: To evaluate fibromyalgia syndrome in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) low disease activity. Settings and sampling: From January 2022 to February 2023, this descriptive research was carried out at Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar. Based on the ACR 2010 criteria for RA, were enrolled study. Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) scores between 2.5 10 considered mild activity, ind...

BACKGROUND The long term adverse effects of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a viral disease, are poorly understood. METHODS Sleep physiology, somatic and mood symptoms of 22 Toronto subjects, 21 of whom were healthcare workers, (19 females, 3 males, mean age 46.29 yrs.+/- 11.02) who remained unable to return to their former occupation (mean 19.8 months, range: 13 to 36 months follow...

OBJECTIVE Sexual problems are commonly seen in women with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). The objective of this study was to reveal the relationship between the severity of symptoms, sleep disorder, and sexual dysfunction in women with FMS. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 140 sexually active women with FMS aged 17-67 years who presented to our physical medicine and rehabilitation outpatient cli...

Seventeen patients affected by fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) (16 females and one male) and 17 matched healthy subjects underwent formal polysomnography, a sleep questionnaire and lung function tests. FMS patients slept significantly less efficiently than the healthy controls (p<0.01), had a higher proportion of stage 1 sleep (mean+/-SD, 21+/-6% versus 11+/-4%; p<0.001), less slow wave sleep (p<0....

All symptoms and most objectively verified abnormalities among fibromyalgia (FMS) patients are characteristic of subsets of patients with hypothyroidism or partial peripheral thyroid hormone resistance. Laboratory tests have shown a higher-than-normal incidence of thyroid disease among FMS patients. Among 40 objectively verified abnormalities that also occur in hypothyroidism and peripheral thy...

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a common and intriguing condition, manifest by chronic pain and fatigue. Although the pathogenesis of FMS is not yet completely understood, predicting the future development of FMS and chronic pain is a major challenge with great potential advantages, both from an individual as well as an epidemiological standpoint. Current knowledge indicates a genetic underpinni...

OBJECTIVE Although 2 recent studies have found associations between catastrophizing and poor medical outcomes in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), neither assessed these findings in comparison with a similar group of patients with chronic pain. Our study examined the complex relationships between depression, catastrophizing, and the multidimensional aspects of pain in women with FMS an...

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is characterized by pain referred to deep tissues. Diagnosis and treatment of FMS are complicated by a variable coexistence with regional pain, fatigue, sleep disruption, difficulty with mentation, and depression. The widespread, deep pain of FMS can be a consequence of chronic psychological stress with autonomic dysregulation. Stress acts centrally to facilitate pai...

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a widespread pain condition associated with fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, sleep disturbance, depression, anxiety, and stiffness. Milnacipran is one of three medications currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States for the management of adult FMS patients. This review is the second in a three-part series reviewing each of the approv...

SIR, We appreciate the comment of Prof. Ernst [1]. Mayhew and Ernst [2] summarized the results of a qualitative analysis of five controlled trials with acupuncture in fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) as follows: ‘Their methodological quality was mixed and frequently low. Three RCTs suggested positive but mostly short-lived effects and two yielded negative results. There was no significant difference...