Understanding The Treatment Fibromyalgia In Pregnancy

By Shaun Marsh

The cause of fibromyalgia is not yet known until today. The focus of most treatment processes are on alleviating the symptoms and improving the quality of life. The combination of conventional and alternative medicine is one of the most famous treatment regimens, which consists of prescription medicine, alternative medicine, and exercise and lifestyle modification.

But, it is also known that the approach is always trial and error. It means that the approach is tweaked in various ways to meet the needs of one patient. Moreover, the method is modified entirely for the benefit of a single patient. It is important that patients have to allow the medical personnel work as a team so that a plan can be devised properly for each patient.

Nevertheless, there is only limited information and background for the disease process, which make the entire treatment regimen limited. There are no studies done to prove that one single approach is working for most cases. No one has ever understood how the disease works particularly during pregnancy.

The lack of understanding about the disease process puts the fetus and the mother in danger. There has been conflict in the evidence of the process of disease and its effect to pregnancy. It is imperative therefore that further research is needed in order to discover the appropriate treatment as well as the course of disease on pregnancy.

It is important that researches are done so that no life will be sacrificed when time has come to deliver the unborn baby to the world. However, it is already known that pregnancy can aggravate the symptoms of fibromyalgia. But, this has to be taken further.

It is important that we know that that the most challenging phase in pregnancy is the third trimester since the symptoms tend to be increasing in frequency. This indicates that the progression of the disease is going. - 30287

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