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Nutrition.About.com Fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia Patients Have Longer 'Pain
Memories'
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Health) Nov 1 - Fibromyalgia patients
experience
more pain than other people because their bodies "remember" the pain longer,
according to Dr.
Roland Staud, from the University of Florida, in Gainesville,
and colleagues.
"In normal patients, we
cannot elicit pain with [minor] stimuli," Dr. Staud said.
But fibromyalgia patients retain the memory of pain very
well. And they
"sum-up" the pain, "so each successive stimuli increases the sensation and it
lingers...much
longer."
Dr. Staud and colleagues looked at 59 fibromyalgia patients and 65 matched
controls without fibromyalgia.
The subjects' average age was 44 years and
most were female. The researchers applied intense heat to different parts of
the
subjects' hands for 2- to 5-second intervals and studied their response. The
findings were presented here at the
annual scientific meeting of the American
College of Rheumatology.
The researchers found that fibromyalgia
patients had stronger responses to the
heat stimuli than control subjects, regardless of the interval between heat
applications.
This suggests a problem with the central pain processing function
in fibromyalgia patients, according to Dr. Staud.
Fibromyalgia patients also felt pain in a more widespread area compared with
the controls, he added. This is
probably related to genetic or individualized
mechanisms, and results in a greater sensation of pain.
Dr. Staud
is hopeful that the study findings will make physicians take
fibromyalgia patients' complaints more seriously. "It's
completely unclear to me
why other pain problems, such as chronic back pain, are accepted in the
medical community,
while fibromyalgia is not," he said. "Now we are able to
provide evidence for central nervous system abnormalities
in chronic pain
syndromes like fibromyalgia."
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