People with fibromyalgia often experience other symptoms, such as extreme tiredness or problems with sleep, mood, or memory. Fibromyalgia affects more women than men. The pain, extreme tiredness, and lack of sleep caused by fibromyalgia can affect your ability to work or perform daily activities. To apply for disability benefits, call the Social Security office.
Much of the information can be provided by phone, mail or the Internet. You will be asked specific questions about how you are having problems with daily activities. In addition, you'll need to be as specific as possible and describe your limitations and the reasons you can't work. You will be asked to provide the names and addresses of your doctors. The Social Security office will contact each one to obtain the records.
You should be specific about the physical signs and symptoms related to fibromyalgia and pain, and how they affect your ability to work. In some cases, fibromyalgia prevented students from completing higher education or continuing their studies because they couldn't sit for the entire class, or because they couldn't concentrate long enough during class or on a specific task (“I didn't go to college because”). In addition to medical treatment, people can manage fibromyalgia with the self-management strategies described below, which have been shown to reduce pain and disability. Therefore, focus group findings will not only help expand outcome measures in clinical trials, but they will also have the potential to define fibromyalgia in a way that has clinical relevance for patients and doctors.
It's common for fibromyalgia patients to not receive approval to be disabled, especially with the first request. Fibromyalgia should be treated by a health professional or a team of health professionals who specialize in treating fibromyalgia and other types of arthritis. Fibromyalgia often co-exists with other medical conditions, and it's important to recognize and treat fibromyalgia as a separate disorder. Some patients with fibromyalgia feel that it is necessary to have the help of an attorney during the appeal process.
Some doctors may not recognize fibromyalgia or consider the condition to be a psychiatric disorder or simply not credible. The main objective of this research was to determine which symptoms of fibromyalgia (FM) or lifestyle characteristics predict a worse quality of life (CV) in patients suffering from this disease. Participants also mentioned that shame was often associated with a lack of social acceptance of fibromyalgia or when it became clear that their cognitive abilities no longer allowed them to perform simple tasks. In previous qualitative studies of patients with fibromyalgia, individual interviews with patients were used to explore the personal experience of living with fibromyalgia.
Fibromyalgia is a disorder characterized by generalized musculoskeletal pain accompanied by problems with fatigue, sleep, memory and mood. However, there is still a lack of consensus on the full set of domains that should be evaluated in fibromyalgia treatment trials or as part of a routine evaluation in clinical settings. It is an inductive, rather than deductive, approach to obtaining concepts and subconcepts that can help develop a conceptual framework for evaluating the impact of fibromyalgia in patients. The objective of this study was to obtain and evaluate the important symptomatic domains and the impact of fibromyalgia on patients' quality of life and functioning from the patient's perspective.
