Always love a week or a month that will help raise awareness and this week is National Pain Week. So, during this week, we’re going to be talking about conditions that can have an influence on headaches and migraines and also how headaches and migraines can interact and influence these conditions. And so today, we’re starting off with fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that creates multiple regions of pain throughout the body and the musculoskeletal system that is usually more of a dull consistent ache type of pain. The pain can certainly vary in intensity from lower-grade pain to higher-grade pain. General fatigue, sleep disturbances, cognitive disturbances, and strong brain fog are also characteristics of fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia can be quite difficult to diagnose because the signs and symptoms do look like other things and other things do need to be ruled out first before a diagnosis of fibromyalgia can be ruled in and there are actually no tests for...