The fibromyalgia disease is the disease of the muscles, which is characterized by widespread pain all over the body, or the pain may be more acute in some points of the body. The disease is mostly found in women than in men. Women are at the greatest risk of this disease when they are in their menopause period. The ratio for men and women for this disease is given as 9:1. The disease may affect anyone from the age group of twenty to sixty. The FMS disease is seen in three to six percent of the total population. The disease has been a mystery but now scientist and investigators have come closer in identifying the real causes of the mysterious disorder. The FMS condition is now associated with the dysfunction of the nervous system. The research in this disease has not yet yielded any cure and the sufferer has to use many medicines for the treatment of the variety of symptoms found in this disease. The gender of the patient, the age, the disturbed sleep pattern, and rheumatic disease are the risk factors for fibromyalgia.

Studies:

The individual with sleep disturbances is the most prone to fibromyalgia and the family history of the person which states that there have been relatives who have had this condition are at the greatest risk of FMS, and scientist are now almost confirmed or accepting the role of genetics or family history in the cause of FMS. Based on the reports of most FMS sufferers, fibromyalgia seems to run in families as there are many other ailments that are the legacy of their family. Dr. Muhammad B. Yunus at the University of Illinois who was the first to coin the terms has done research on the possible link between family history and fibromyalgia and he found that there exists a poor relation between the HLA allele, which is a specific genetic location and the emergence of fibromyagia.

The environment in the family in which everyone lives also may be linked to the genetic predisposition of FMS because everyone shares the same environment. The women folk are at the greatest risk of fibromyalgia then it must be that the aunties, sisters, mothers, grandmothers and other relatives who are blood relatives then one must be able to find the FMS disorder in them also but that always does not happen. Thus the relation between the disease and the hereditary factor is a close one.