Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue
Recovery From Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Is Possible
Chronic fatigue is far more than simply feeling tired.
Chronic fatigue is often accompanied by fibromyalgia symptoms, which can include widespread pain in the muscles and joints, fatigue, brain fog, sleep issues, mood issues and depression. The pain associated with fibromyalgia is most commonly centred on specific tender points on the body.
Symptoms of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue can be very debilitating and can have a significant impact on quality of life.
After being diagnosed with fibromyalgia, you may have been told that your symptoms have no cause and you’ll need to rely on medications to manage symptoms.
Typically, test results will come back as “normal” and you may be offered pain medications, antidepressants and other medications, which may add more unpleasant side effects on top of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue symptoms.
This is the conventional medicine approach to treating fibromyalgia, which focuses on symptom management and doesn’t address the underlying causes of why you are feeling this way.
Functional medicine offers an understanding of the root cause(s) so that we can restore health and vitality.
Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue may be a result of imbalances in the body.
Functional medicine empowers you to understand why you have symptoms so that you can take control of your health and promote balance and healing in the body.
There will often be multiple root causes co-existing simultaneously, all of which will need to be taken into account. Addressing these root causes can improve fibromyalgia symptoms rather than masking them and acting as a band-aid solution.
It’s only when the root causes of chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia are addressed that you can start to find relief from symptoms and regain control of your health.
We work alongside primary care physicians and doctors to complement the treatment you are receiving for fibromyalgia and/or chronic fatigue. We use personalized nutrition, supplements and herbs to restore balance at the cellular level and where feasible, we can facilitate testing to find your individual root causes of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.
Functional medicine can have great success in treating symptoms of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue because we are getting to the heart of why symptoms have developed and restoring the balance that is currently missing in the body. We can uncover factors that are contributing to fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue symptoms and encourage recovery.
