Can fibromyalgia get worse or cause mortality?
Pain is the worst symptom experienced in medicine, and patients with chronic pain are victims to bad thoughts. Therefore, psychological support is essential, and the first step of such support is assuring patients that they are not going to die from fibromyalgia. In fact, fibromyalgia as a disease doesn’t get worse. Chronic patients may notice that their symptoms are worsening, but it is most likely due to the increased anxiety and sleep deprivation that give the illusion of increasing pain. Fibromyalgia also doesn’t affect bone or joints, and patients are not at an increased risk of cancer or other terminal diseases just because they have fibromyalgia. Other conditions that occur with fibromyalgia like irritable bowel syndrome may need to be differentiated from malignant disorders before establishing diagnosis, but that’s the closest relation between both conditions.