Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Examining The Three Major Causes Of The Central Nervous System Disorder Known As Fibromyalgia

By Mary Willson


The central nervous system disorder known as Fibromyalgia is quite common and it happens to many people quite a lot. This painful ailment has been under study for a long time now, as many are trying harder to figure out what causes it. As a result, it is safe to say that the medical world is now benefiting from those efforts, giving them more than an enlightening glimpse of what's behind this condition. But there are underlying causes of this condition, and there are triggers as well, and both have to be identified. The improved understanding of the condition's causes has, in turn, made its management easier and more effective. We are going to look at three causes of this disease, although there are many other causes as well. These three major causes are exactly that: major. They are the most often spotted causes of the disease, as compared to the others.

First, there is stress. Surprisingly, it could bring about fibromyalgia. This often acts as a trigger to episodes of the disease in question. It has also been postulated that childhood stress may be an underlying cause for (at least) some of the disease's cases. People who suffer from depression and stress are also eventually vulnerable to fibromyalgia. If you compare children who had a depressing and problematic childhood to children who were stress-free, the former are actually much, much happier.

Fibromyalgia is also brought about when hormones become unbalanced or when the brain's biochemistry undergoes changes. To be more specific, imbalance in one's growth hormone's is pinpointed to be the cause. However, some medical experts agree that it is the other way around: growth hormone deficiency is a result of the condition known as fibromyalgia. Now if we turn to the brain's biochemistry as the culprit, the ones most focused on are serotonin and dopamine. We are looking at a situation where too little serotonin can cause this particular disease. Fibromyalgia also exists if the brain does not have enough hypodopaminergia, which is another name for dopamine.

One reason for these deficiencies in the brain is stress, as we talked about earlier in the discussion. But then again, there is also that argument: is stress the cause or the result of the neurotransmitter abnormalities? If you look at patients suffering from fibromyalgia, you will notice that these neurotransmitter abnormalities are a common denominator. What is also known is the fact that these patients do often (but not always) benefit from the use of medications that rectify the said neurotransmitter abnormalities.

Having poor sleep will also bring about this condition. There have been many studies that support this theory correlating sleep and the disease. Lack of sleep or poor quality of sleep will also cause fibromyalgia in pretty much the same manner as stress or abnormalities in neurotransmitters in the brain also do, and sometimes in tandem with both. But we can also have a situation where sleep problems independently cause the disease.




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