Migraine-Fibromyalgia Link Found
Patients at CureTogether who report migraine are 3.5x more likely to report having fibromyalgia than patients who don’t report migraine. This comes from an analysis of 512 patients – please see the chart at http://www.curetogether.com/
About CureTogether
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CureTogether has been called “Yelp for health.” It is a collaboration of people from around the world volunteering to solve real problems in chronic conditions. Patients self-report and rate symptoms and treatments for over 360 conditions. The top conditions at CureTogether are depression, anxiety, migraine, back pain, and vulvodynia. More information is at http://www.curetogether.com.
Migraine-Fibromyalgia Research
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The importance of this finding is that using only self-reported data, we have found an association between migraine and fibromyalgia that has previously been explored only in clinical studies such as:
1. 22% of female patients with migraine were found to also have fibromyalgia. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
2. Migraine, fibromyalgia, depression and anxiety were found to form a “comorbidity constellation”
3. Fibromyalgia is increasingly prevalent with increased headache frequency. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Details of the CureTogether Finding
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Among 270 people reporting migraine, 72 (27%) reported also having fibromyalgia, and the remaining 198 specifically reported not having fibromyalgia. Among 242 people reporting “no migraine”, 18 (7%) reported having fibromyalgia, and the remaining 224 people specifically reported not having fibromyalgia.
This 27% vs. 7% relative risk is statistically significant, with a 95% confidence interval of 2.2 – 5.9.
