Causes Of Fibromyalgia

A common question: What causes fibromyalgia?

Till now no one can answer this question accurately but there are a lot of theories but you can’t find enough evidence to support one single theory so we can say according to many studies that there are multiple factors contributing to the disease.

Fibromyalgia Hereditary and genetic Theory

It has been found that People who have a family member with fibromyalgia are more likely to develop Fibromyalgia.
So doctors suspect genetic predisposition in Fibromyalgia mainly because they find families in which more than one person has the conditions. Also, other factors that seem to trigger fibromyalgia don’t cause the disease in most people.
So most probably there are certain genetic mutations that may make you more susceptible to developing the disorder but these gene mutations are still hidden.

Triggering factors for fibromyalgia

In many people the beginning of their fibromyalgia symptoms usually comes after exposure to certain events. These events may be medical illness like the flu, an injury or surgery, or emotional trauma and stress. Post traumatic stress disorder has been linked to fibromyalgia

Central sensitization theory

people with fibromyalgia have a lower threshold for pain because of increased sensitivity in the brain to pain signals as repeated nerve stimulation causes the brains of fibromyalgia patients to have abnormal increase in levels of certain neurotransmitters that signal pain and the brain’s pain receptors develop a sort of memory of the pain and become more sensitive, and then they can overreact to pain signals.

Hormonal and chemical abnormalities

Abnormalities in the levels of serotonin, melatonin, substance P and cortisol levels have been linked to fibromyalgia.

So we can state that Fibromyalgia is a hereditary disease need genetic susceptibility may be initiated by a certain event like emotional trauma or illness as flu or surgery which together lead to chemical  disturbance of the body hormones or nerve cell chemicals.

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