Fibromyalgia is a complicated chronic situation which mainly attacks women. According to latest research from ten sufferers 9 are women.  However, it is not a life threatening disease but once a person becomes its victim it is difficult to get a cure of it.  

Fibromyalgia occurs when the victim takes a lot of stress and then starts experiencing tiredness in the tender parts of the area. The major symptoms would include

• Getting tired often
• Stiffness in shoulder, neck and jaw muscle
• Pain in abdomen trunk
• Itching with muscle tremor
• Feel of urinating too often
• Depression
• Lack of concentration
• Legs are restless.

Since the actual cause of Fibromyalgia is unknown its treatment is also difficult. The doctors usually prescribe medicine to subside the symptoms of Fibromyalgia. Its cure includes both medical ways and self help methods. Let’s discuss the self-help, natural methods first:

The "Self-Help" Methods

• You need to exercise more. Patients suffering from Fibromyalgia need to be physically fit to reduce the pain.
• Do yoga regularly
• Lessen your use of alcohol and coffee.
• You need to keep your stress level low, therefore try to have a control on your emotions and behavior.

Your doctor’s treatment:

Along with these self help methods, the doctors will also prescribe you medicines to give you a relief from fibromyalgia:

• Recommend small dose of tricyclic anti-depressants to overcome serotonin deficiency. This will help you getting a better sleep and also in reducing your pain
• Local anesthetics are also prescribed with corticosteroids to give relief to local pain
• Pain killers are often given like paracetamol or ibuprofen.
• If you are a patient suffering from severe fibromyalgia then strong narcotic pain killers should be included.