I've been diagnosed with FB and am in constant pain with weakness, tingling, sleep disorder, fatigue, etc. The pain is at times unbearable and no OTC med helps!
**** off
I have the condition and my sister has MS. She has far more energy than I have and does not appear to be in as much pain
pain is the primary symptom.
Because some types of ms when ambulatory don't display widespread fiber pain after the slightest exercise.
I experience so much pain all over most of the time. I feel unexplained anxiety.
MS patients have numbness related to nerve damage. Fibromyalgia patients have diffuse muscle pain, numbness would actually be a blessing ;)
I think it is fibro because it is a wide overall body pain that lasts and lasts even to the point that meds do not really work but "take the edge off" the pain.
due to the cause of each condition.
Chronic widespread pain
For 2/12/ years I have been worked up for MS and is now finding out I most likely have Fibromyalgia and not MS. I have never experienced such pain all over in my body in all my life. I have dealt with the pain for years and has worsened over the past 3 years . I started out with a virus like illness followed by a 3 month loss of vision in my left eye, optic neuritis and now permanent blurred vision in my left eye. I constantly feel like my skin is burning. It hurts me to simply be touched even hugged.
Fibromyalgia is manifested by the " pain". Multiple sclerosis may involve the symptome of sensory or motor neurons only,
Patient with FM have 18 tender points of painful stimuli in the CNS pathways
Pain is more widespread over the entire body.
I'm not sure. I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia but I think I am MS. But I have been in pain & the symptoms match both. My hips are painful sometimes to touch.
I have it and I'm 15 and it sucks
Constant, chronic pain.
Because I suffer with Fibromyalgia and have for forty years.
I have pain from the bottom of my head to the tips of my toes. Sometimes even my rx doesn't even touch the pain.
Because I have both. Multiple sclerisis is sometimes disabling because function is lost, but the amount of pain and variety of pain caused by fibromyalgia makes it impossible to function, even if function is not impaired.
I have had Fibromyalgia since childhood, now 61. Fibromyalgia is intense pain over the entire body vs MS numbness.
I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and No Day is a Good Day for me for the past12-15 years. I have fogged up brains, cannot think clearly.Cannot focus because I get Mental and Physical fatigue/exhaustion causing pains to increase immensely. I appear physically fit to the eyes to everyone but inside of me is dying or almost dead.Like a bird in a cage, Nobody can see his pain or feel his sufferings :(
I have Fibromyalgia all my life even as a child,I am now 48 years old. I know 2 people with M.S. and they feel sorry for me as they seem to think I'm worse off, I have more and longer flare-ups. I do understand that M.S. can be worse for some people though as I understand you can deteriorate to the point of death.
But in saying that, I have lost 4 friends from a group I run to suicide, one was a GP himself!!
nerve pain , chest pain , arm pain , leg pain , headaches and migrane , memory loss ,stomach pain palpations , depression , fatigue , brain fog , and I can not talk at times I probably forgot something
It is harder to function and think when the pain is wide spread vs limited areas. Plus muscle weakness makes it hard to your everyday routine.
I couldn't honestly say what's more painful, but since I was diagnosed with fibro earlier this year after suffering for years prior, I have read the comparisons between fibro and ms and I can say that I suffer from a lot of both types of diseases. I am constantly in pain, being touched by my loved ones comes with permission first. I can't handle certain touches, or having the shower water touch my face. I've had tremors so bad I can't write, or the food falls off my utensils while eating. It's been a struggle living an everyday life. I only work part-time, 34 hours a week, and when I get home I'm so exhausted I can't hardly move. I wish there were other treatments that actually worked.
