Symptoms attributed to breast implant illness frequently overlap with conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and irritable bowel syndrome. People can be mistakenly diagnosed with fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome or told that their chronic headaches and muscle weaknesses are psychosomatic. Patients with fibromyalgia find relief in group treatment multidisciplinary programs can be used to teach patients to manage the symptoms of fibromyalgia, for which there is no 'magic pill. Many patients who meet clinical criteria for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome could be suffering from the recently described entity mast cell activation syndrome. A drug for parkinson's disease, the dopamine agonist pramipexole, offers hope to patients with fibromyalgia, say researchers reporting the first trial of the drug in this condition
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