Fibromyalgia is Declared as a New Long Term Disability

Fibromyalgia is to be recognized by health professionals in Northern Ireland as a long-term condition.

People who suffer from it mutter of aches all over the body, as well as profound fatigue.

Other symptoms include headaches, sleep pennilessness and difficulty concentrating.

Despite the severity of symptoms, people living with the condition in NI have said their voices have gone unheard and their symptoms ignored.

Chronic aches

After stuff inundated with complaints, the Patient and Client Council in Northern Ireland three years ago pressed the specimen for fibromyalgia to be recognised as a long-term condition.

Having interviewed sufferers and lobbied politicians and health professionals, defended services are to be established wideness the health trusts.

Martina Marks, who lives in County Down, said it was a relief to be taken seriously.

“I have lived with the pain since 1997. At times it can be chronic, with aches in my muscles and joints,” she said.

“Often the pain is unbearable and then you have to contend with a sleep disorder, headaches and just not stuff worldly-wise to deal with everyday life.”

‘All well-nigh pain’

Fibromyalgia has worsted health experts for decades. It does not show up on thoroughbred tests or scans and is often difficult to diagnose.

Kevin Davies, a professor of medicine at the University of Sussex and an expert in fibromyalgia, said: “People who present with problems will go for scans and thoroughbred tests, but nothing shows up as it is all well-nigh pain.

“But that doesn’t midpoint there isn’t a problem – it’s just the doctor can’t make a diagnosis of which he feels secure about.”

It is thought well-nigh one million people are living with the condition wideness the UK.

Fibromyalgia is recognized as a condition by NHS Choices in England and Scotland, meaning treatments should be misogynist to patients.

However, in practice the availability of services is patchy as not all health trusts have the resources to target the condition specifically.

While there is no specific icon for Northern Ireland, it is thought virtually one in 25 may be coping with symptoms – a majority of them undiagnosed.

Louise Skelly, director of operations at the Patient and Client Council, said: “What we are surprised well-nigh is how many patients have come forward, wanting to share their stories.

“They felt very isolated and very vacated and what we moreover discovered is that the clinicians moreover have found this a difficult zone to work in so they have welcomed the sharing of knowledge and information.”

Concerns taken seriously

Its recognition as a condition will raise sensation of it among the public, but moreover among health professionals.

Once diagnosed, patients will receive a “pathway” that will outline what services are misogynist including medication or translating virtually exercise and volitional therapies.

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According to patients, the biggest transilience is having their concerns taken seriously.

Martina Marks was not diagnosed for 10 years.

“It was a very long journey. I hadn’t heard of it and neither had my GP,” she said.

“It was important that I got a diagnosis, considering I’d been going through variegated treatments, seeing variegated doctors and nothing was giving me relief.

“Some of them don’t understand the illness and I think we need an sensation wayfarers for the medical profession to understand the variety of symptoms with fibromyalgia and the severity of it.”

While there is no cure for the condition, there is vestige that lifestyle changes including relaxation, heat, exercise and nutrition can make a difference.

Severe cases will be treated with medication.

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