The term ‘sickness syndrome’ refers to a constellation of non-
specific symptoms that develop in connection with many ailments,
especially infections. Simply stated, when you get an infection
you feel lethargic, fatigued, sleepy, and somewhat depressed.
You feel sick. Fibromyalgia results in those same symptoms, not
(of course) because it’s caused by a ‘bug’, but fibromyalgia
might trick your brain into thinking you’ve got one doozy of an
infection – an infection that never seems to go away. To see how
fibromyalgia does that, and the results of such trickery – read
on. Your brain does what it’s told. Basically, when your body
senses that you have a bacterial or viral infection, it sends a
message to your brain: “Hey, there’s an infection out here,
please make the person act sick so that we can get better
faster.” “Will do!” says the brain And it sets to work making
you feel lethargic, fatigued, sleepy and depressed. It’s good
for you. It’s pretty easy to see how being sleepy might help you
heal faster (you go