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A large percentage, perhaps a majority of those with fibromyalgia, or FMS, suffer from poor sleep. In fact, many fibromyalgia patients, before they are even diagnosed with fibromyalgia, begin to complain that they have trouble sleeping, either falling asleep or successfully staying asleep.
What percentage of people with fibromyalgia have sleep related problems? The figure may be as high as eighty percent. And current medical evidence now suggests that the pain experienced by fibromyalgia patients may be directly tied to sleep problems. How is this so? The problem seems to involve something known as delta wave sleep. Delta wave, or stage four sleep, is a particularly deep level of sleep in which the body heals and repairs itself. It is theorized that patients with fibromyalgia who are unable to reach or sustain this deep level of sleep do not sufficiently regenerate. This may be part of the reason why a principal component of FMS is ongoing pain and a lowered sensitivity to pain. It may also explain to some extent the poor memory and concentration alleged by so many fibromyalgia patients since it is at the deeper levels of sleep that the mind is thought to engage in a type of "cognitive housekeeping" in which new information (including recent memories) is arranged and organized within the brain. A failure to achieve or maintain the deep sleep needed for this task might well result in an impaired ability to retain and recall recent memory. |
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