Examining The Three Major Causes Of The Central Nervous System Disorder Known As Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is a relatively common ailment, and it is commonly classified as a central nervous system disorder. To date, many studies have been conducted, which are all geared towards finding out the exact causes of this ailment. For the most part, that work has been fruitful, and as of today, the medical community has a reasonably good understanding of the disease's causes. That is to say that we are now familiar with what the triggers of fibromyalgia is, as well as its underlying causes. This condition will become more manageable and finding a cure would be easier provided we know what we are up against and what is causing the disease. There are a lot of causes of this disease, but we will only be tackling the three major ones right now. These are considered to be the major causes since they are the most obvious and most prevalent causes of the disease that we know about. 
First, there is stress. Surprisingly, it could bring about fibromyalgia. This often acts as a trigger to episodes of the disease in question. It has also been postulated that childhood stress may be an underlying cause for (at least) some of the disease's cases. Take note that people are vulnerable to this disease if they are also suffering from various states of depression. Fibromyalgia becomes more prevalent in children who suffered through depression or been subjected to some sort of abuse by others. 
Changes in the brain's biochemistry as well as certain imbalance in the person's hormonal makeup is also another reason why fibromyalgia takes places. If there is an imbalance in the person's growth hormones, that's when the condition takes place. But there are certain factions in the medical field who would say that growth hormone deficiency is not the cause, but actually the result of, fibromyalgia. Serotonin and dopamine are the two most blamed culprits if the cause of the condition has something to do with the brain's biochemistry. Too little serotonin would be responsible for fibromyalgia happening. Fibromyalgia also exists if the brain does not have enough hypodopaminergia, which is another name for dopamine. These neurotransmitters could have abnormalities if the person is experiencing a lot of stress. However, there will remain the question as to whether stress is causing this abnormality, or if it is a by-product of the abnormality. If you look at patients suffering from fibromyalgia, you will notice that these neurotransmitter abnormalities are a common denominator. But these patients will also readily find a solution to the abnormalities in their neurotransmitter through the use of certain medications, although not all of them work.
Lack of sleep is also blamed to be another major cause of fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia has been proven to have a direct cause and effect relationship with poor sleep. The mechanism may be a straightforward one, or a more convoluted one, where the lack of sleep causes stress (whose effect we examined earlier) or neurotransmitter abnormalities (whose effects we also examined earlier), thus triggering the disease in question here. However, there are also certain cases where lack of sleep alone can lead to this disease.