0 a medical condition that causes pain in the muscles and surrounding tissue as well as extreme tiredness
Additionally, the diagnosis of fibromyalgia is easily accepted by the patients, and is less stigmatizing than psychiatric diagnoses.
Prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder in fibromyalgia patients : overlapping syndromes or a posttraumatic fibromyalgia syndrome ?
Latent class analysis of symptoms associated with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
If our interpretation of our results is correct, what are the implications for understanding the clinical heterogeneity of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia ?
These results were unexpected given the usual assumption of the distinctiveness of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
Only well-defined and recognized somatic diseases, but not medically unexplained syndromes such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel or chronic fatigue syndrome, were considered sufficient somatic explanation.
Also, the relationship of such fashionable diagnoses as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, etc., and somatoform disorders remain unclear.
Victimization in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia in tertiary care : a controlled study on prevalence and characteristics.