Non-profit Fibromyalgia Foundation

Welcome to the National Fibromyalgia Foundation

Our Mission:

Support research for the cause, treatment and cure of Fibromyalgia, while increasing awareness.

There are an estimated 12 million people who suffer with Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) in the United States. This is a severe and debilitating disease that is widely unknown and misunderstood by the general population and often misdiagnosed by doctors. FMS harms every aspect of a person- physically, mentally, and emotionally. The major symptoms include severe pain throughout the body, extreme fatigue, depression and anxiety, memory loss and decreased cognitive motor function. There are many additional symptoms as well.

The cause and proper treatment of FMS is unknown. Treating the myriad of symptoms is impossible, yet that is the only advice doctors can offer. This syndrome is so debilitating that people often cannot work, yet most disability programs won’t consider FMS a valid disease for approval because it is difficult to diagnose. Individual health insurance is nearly impossible to acquire if diagnosed with FMS. Your organization probably has several members who suffer in silence from FMS.

Relationships are shattered because FMS is misunderstood. Many people don’t even know they have FMS. The majority of people afflicted with FMS will have gone through years of emotional abuse, being told they are a Hypochondriac, even after being properly diagnosed. FMS is said to age a person’s mental and physical capabilities by 20 to 30 years. Join our cause and let’s begin offering hope to FMS sufferers and their families today.

The National Fibromyalgia Foundation is determined to privately fund research to discover and develop the cure of FMS and end this hopeless, low quality of life that FMS sufferers live with.