The main symptoms of Fibromyalgia Syndrome are chronic pain and tenderness in muscles and connecting tissue.
It usually starts as a slight periodic pain that steadily increases in frequency and intensity over a period of several weeks or even months.
FMS can be suspected, if the pain gets stronger and finally persists continuously over a period of at least three months and is connected with sensitivity to touch and pressure on tender points.
At this stage it is obviously difficult for the victim to establish if sleeping disorders which most likely would appear at the same time are part of a disease or just consequence of the pain.
But if the pain and the sleeping disorders are further aggravated by any kind of bowel, bladder or breathing abnormalities, numbness or tickling on the skin, muscle spasms, chronic fatigue, lack of focus for the daily challenges of life, signs of depression or memory lapses, the final diagnosis will most likely be Fibromyalgia Syndrome.