Disturbed Sleep Patterns And Fibromyalgia

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Fibromyalgia has been linked to disturbed sleep patterns and also insomnia. It won't be an exaggeration if it is said the Fibromyalgia and sleep disorders go hand in hand. It has been estimated that that eighty percent of the sufferers experience some kind of disturbed sleep pattern with Fibromyalgia. The disorder of fibromyalgia makes the patient exhausted and fatigued.

The disturbed sleep pattern in fibromyalgia further aggravates the symptoms in the patient. The human sleeping behavior follows a distinct pattern and there are stages in the sleep. In the fourth stage of sleep there is the deep sleep when the nervous system works to set the neurochemicals. But in the sufferers of fibromyalgia this stage is disturbed by pain and there is because of this a certain P substance is released in the spinal cord which works to make the pain grow in the body. Thus the patients of the fibromyalgia disorder do not receive enough deep sleep and their body remains under fatigue and stress.

When the patient does not get adequate sleep his symptoms grow and the feeling of fatigue is thus the general complaint of fibromyalgia patients. When the nervous system cannot set the muscles there starts muscle pain and even muscle ache. The normal sleep leaves the individual feeling refreshed but a FMS patient constantly feels tired and let down. Thus the lack of sufficient sleep makes the symptoms worse.