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By Barbara Bradley Bolen, Ph.D., About.com Guide to Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue and IBS

Tuesday October 28, 2008
When it rains, it pours. Sadly, this is sometimes the case when it comes to a person’s health. Very unfair, if you ask me! Regardless of how I think the world should be run, the reality is that fate doesn’t always dole out one major health problem at a time. Sometimes, various health conditions are related, increasing the odds of having to deal with more than one problem at a time. Often, it is the treatment for one problem that leaves a person vulnerable for another. Other times, it just seems to be bad luck.

There are two health conditions that frequently seem to go hand and hand with IBS – fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Adrienne Dellwo, About.com Guide to Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue has just published an article that addresses this issue. “Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Why Do They Go Together?” If you suffer from either of these conditions in addition to IBS, read the article and check out all of the other valuable information Adrienne has posted on her site.

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