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Can severe stress cause all this fibromyalgia pain?
6 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Yes it's possible: Its difficult to isolate what fibromyalgia is. Much easier to diagnose what it is not. Therefore it's difficult to assess what 'cause & affect' makes it worse as opposed to simply, 'guilt by association.' someone best described it as a water pipe. Pressure (good) makes the water flow but stress (bad) makes the pipe crack!
Answered 10/4/2016
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No: True fibromyalgia is not a response to stress. See a rheumatologist or pain specialist. True that stress can cause pain but stress is not a precipitator of fm.
Answered 3/26/2013
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