Fibromyalgia Symptoms
Cardinal Features:
 • Sleep disturbances: Insomnia, Frequent awakening, Non-restoring sleep
 • Pain: Generalized (head-to-toes), Described in terms of neuropathic pain, paraesthesias
 • Fatigue: Physical, Mental
Other Common Features:
 • Psychiatric symptoms: Anxiety, Depression, Post-traumatic stress disorder
 • Cognitive dysfunctions: Concentration difficulties, Memory deficits
 • Autonomic Disturbances: Blurred vision, photophobia and xerophthalmia, Feeling of instability, Xerostomia, Variations in responses to cold at the extremities (including Raynaud phenomenon), Orthostatic hypotension
 • Regional pain syndromes: Migraine or headache, Stomach ache or dyspepsia, Abdominal pain or irritable bowel syndrome, Dysmenorrhoea, Vulvodynia, Dysuria
 • Hypersensitivity to external stimuli: Hypersensitivity to light, odours and sounds, Chemical sensitivity
 • Stiffness: Morning stiffness not exceeding 60 min

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