complicated, because many symptoms are common to other musculoskeletal, endocrine, or neurological diseases.
A very careful study of the patient’s history will be necessary to rule out the presence of other pathologies . There are no specific diagnostic tests for fibromyalgia, and it is essentially a diagnosis by exclusion. The specialist of reference is a rheumatologist, who will first make the diagnosis and then prescribe the most appropriate treatment for each individual case.
Fibromyalgia syndrome is often confused with multiple sclerosis , but the latter requires a specific diagnosis: a brain MRI
