What is the risk of passing on fibromyalgia?
Just looking for general facts. What is the likelihood for a man with fibromyalgia passing on the condition to future children? Percentages, hopefully. I haven't been able to find much on this subject.
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1. First, only about 20 percent of people diagnosed with fibromyalgia are men. However, studies are showing that fibromyalgia often has a hereditary component.Here is a good site:
2. It does appear that there is a genetic predisposition to developing fibromyalgia, and having a parent or sibling with fibromyalgia increases ones risk. But because research seems to point to a combination of genetics and environment triggering symptoms, it really isn't possible to pinpoint a percentage. It isn't something that a genetic counselor can test you for and say that you have a 25% chance of passing it on or some other percentage like can be done for some inherited disorders, since there is no way of predicting environmental factors for future children.
3. there is no statistic
1st, most people are falsely diagnosed with FMS, they really have a different condition...some are not sick at all as soome docs use it as a general label for pain --even if its due to lifestyle-like sleeping on a bad mattress ad voluntarillly only sleeping 4 hours a day..
there have not been generational studies that indicate numbers, onlya notice of a trend that it tends to run in families
