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Fibromyalgia: Understand how it's diagnosed
No specific test for fibromyalgia
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Diagnosing fibromyalgia
Old guidelines required tender points
Excluding other possible causes
Tests that may be needed
More clues for fibromyalgia diagnosis
Possible fibromyalgia triggers
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Fibromyalgia symptoms include widespread body pain, fatigue, unrefreshing sleep and mood problems. But all of these symptoms are common to many other conditions. And because fibromyalgia symptoms can occur alone or along with other conditions, it can take time to tease out which symptom is caused by what problem.
To make things even more confusing, fibromyalgia symptoms can come and go over time. That's why it can take a long time to go from fibromyalgia symptoms to a fibromyalgia diagnosis.
