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Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) is wide spread pain in the body, lasting more than 3 months.
Patients must experience tenderness in 11/18 points, developed by American College of Rheumatology.
FMS is often accompanied by:
* unrestorative sleep patterns * fatigue * headaches * irritable bowel & bladder syndromes * morning stiffness * paresthesias * anxiety and depression
FMS is classified as a chronic "non-inflammatory" myopathy
FMS is thought to affect 6 million people in the United States alone
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| Enteroviruses have been implicated in the development of Fibromyalgia Syndrome
In France, researchers found 20% of FMS patients to have EV RNA in muscle biopsies, as compared to 13% of controls. The search for EV RNA however, was limited to skeletal muscle, not the GI tract.
There is no approved treatment for Fibromyalgia Syndrome. An antiviral has never been studied in FMS.
FMS patients can identify an active EV infection through a stomach biopsy or antibody test.
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