Research suggests it’s a disease of the central nervous system
By Bret Stetka
“I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery. When I go to bed, I think,`When will it be morning?’ But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn…Depression haunts my days. My weary nights are filled with pain as though something were relentlessly gnawing at my bones.”
Job suffered badly. And his Old Testament woes are considered by many to be one of the earliest descriptions of fibromyalgia, a painful, puzzling disorder that still has experts bickering and patients frustrated, bereft of relief. The Bible isn’t exactly a paragon of medical accuracy, but Job’s ailment does sound an awful lot like the modern interpretation of fibromyalgia. The classic diffuse pain, aches and discomfort aren’t the half of it; depression, fatigue, stiffness, sleep loss and generally just feeling really bad are common too. Fibromyalgia patients — 2 percent to 8 percent of the population — have also endured decades of dismissals that it’s all in their head — a psychosomatic conjuring, a failure of constitution.
WOMEN. HEALING. VIOLENCE. 