{"id":124506,"date":"2021-07-01T22:22:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/fibromyalgia-could-actually-be-an-autoimmune-disorder-mouse-study-suggests"},"modified":"2021-07-01T22:22:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:22:51","slug":"fibromyalgia-could-actually-be-an-autoimmune-disorder-mouse-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/fibromyalgia-could-actually-be-an-autoimmune-disorder-mouse-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Fibromyalgia Could Actually Be an Autoimmune Disorder, Mouse Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fibromyalgia-could-actually-be-an-autoimmune-disorder-mouse-study-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is one of the most common chronic pain conditions out there, yet we still know shockingly little about it.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, the debilitating condition \u2014 marked by widespread pain and fatigue \u2014 has been vastly understudied, and while it\u2019s commonly thought to originate in the brain, no one really knows how fibromyalgia starts or what can be done to treat it. Some physicians maintain it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4709307\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doesn\u2019t even exist<\/a>, and many patients <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/health-family\/medical-gaslighting-the-women-not-listened-to-or-viewed-as-overdramatising-or-catastrophising-1.4386203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report feeling gaslit<\/a> by the medical community.<\/p>\n<p>New research on mice has now found further evidence that fibromyalgia is not only real, but may involve an autoimmune response as a driver for the illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is one of the most common chronic pain conditions out there, yet we still know shockingly little about it. For decades, the debilitating condition \u2014 marked by widespread pain and fatigue \u2014 has been vastly understudied, and while it\u2019s commonly thought to originate in the brain, no one really knows how fibromyalgia [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}