Hello fibromites and ME/CFS fighters! I found a neat website for Canadians today and wanted to share it. It's called Fibrocentre.ca. I looked around it some and it seems to be very informative and user-friendly. I recommend the site whether you live in Canada or not. The site includes a quiz to print and take to your doctor if you suspect fibromyalgia. It also includes a fact I did not know: an estimated 1 million Canadians suffer from chronic pain due to fibromyalgia. In a country with a population of 33.7 million, the number of people with fibromyalgia is staggering. Fibromyalgia is much more common that doctors first realized. This is of course, is bad, because people are in pain. It is also good, though, because with such a large portion of the population having this illness, we will get more research done.
Here are some other sobering facts:
Here are some other sobering facts:
- 1 in 50 Americans, or between 3 and 6 million people in the USA have fibromyalgia
- More than 1 million Americans have ME/CFS and 80% of those are not diagnosed
- 819,858 in the UK have fibromyalgia
- 250,000 in the UK have ME/CFS
- 270,877 in Australia have fibromyalgia
- 54,327 in New Zealand have fibromyalgia
- 1,035,420 in Egypt have fibromyalgia
- 937,159 in Turkey have fibromyalgia
- 918,242 in Iran have fibromyalgia
- 345,170 in Iraq have fibromyalgia
- 387,869 in Afghanistan have fibromyalgia
- 1,121,217 in Germany have fibromyalgia
- 821,947 in France have fibromyalgia
- 789,752 in Italy have fibromyalgia
- 14,488,092 in India have fibromyalgia
- 17,668,147 in China have fibromyalgia
- 1,124,457 in Vietnam have fibromyalgia
- 1,958,470 in Russia have fibromyalgia
- 649,296 in Ukraine have fibromyalgia
- 359,259 in Uzbekistan have fibromyalgia
- 2,504,316 in Brazil have fibromyalgia
- 1,427,759 in Mexico have fibromyalgia
- 374,683 in Peru have fibromyalgia
- 970,387 in Ethiopia have fibromyalgia
- 112,966 in Somalia have fibromyalgia
- 129,752 in Chad have fibromyalgia
- 604,629 in South Africa have fibromyalgia
- Fibromyalgia is most commonly diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50
- 80% - 90% of all fibromyalgia cases are women
- 90% of ME/CFS cases are women
- ME/CFS rates are somewhat higher in Nigeria than in the USA, according to one study
- Fibromyalgia is most prominent amongst American women with Canadian women coming in a close second
- Fibromyalgia may often co-occur (up to 25-65 percent) with other rheumatic conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and ankylosing spondylitis
- Women who have a family member who has fibromyalgia are more likely to develop fibromyalgia themselves
- Fibromyalgia is the 2nd most common ailment affecting the musculoskeletal system after osteoarthritis
- Fibromyalgia primarily affects women of childbearing age, but children and men may also be affected
Intersting site ... Thank you
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