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but fibromyalgia is also an orphan disease that is not claimed by a specialty and instead awkwardly straddles the fields of rheumatology, neurology, and sleep and pain medicine.
Patients with fibromyalgia have “widespread pain in multiple connective tissue areas”
More than half of women with fibromyalgia report childhood sexual abuse, and 90 percent have experienced a sexual or physical assault in their lifetime
Sleep studies show that fibromyalgia subjects show abnormal “awake-type” brain waves all night long, with reduced and interrupted deep sleep and frequent “mini-awakenings”
