Managing Chronic Pain with Fibromyalgia

Those who suffer from chronic pelvic pain syndrome with widespread pain showed an increase in grey matter and brain connectivity within certain areas of the brain that are not prevalent in the pain-free control group. This showed that their pain would not be cured if the doctors treated their pelvis alone.

Harris’s research found something even more fascinating. He said, “What was surprising was these individuals with widespread pain, although they had the diagnosis of urological chronic pelvic pain, were actually identical to another chronic pain disorder: fibromyalgia.”