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Fibromyalgia is linked to increased subjective sensory sensitivity across multiple senses.
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- Visual Hypersensitivity as a Transdiagnostic Marker of Surgical Pain Response in Arthritis and Chronic Pain Syndromes.Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Sensory Modulation Disorder as a Diagnostic Marker in Fibromyalgia: Associations with Stress and Symptom Severity.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Multimodal hypersensitivity and somatic symptoms predict adolescent postmenarchal widespread pain.Pain · 2025Article
- Pain in systemic lupus erythematosus: emerging insights and paradigms.Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2025Review
- Fibromyalgia, Depression, and Autoimmune Disorders: An Interconnected Web of Inflammation.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- A Comprehensive Analysis of Fibromyalgia and the Role of the Endogenous Opioid System.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Investigating Self-Reported Sensory Intolerance and Perceptual Ability Across Sensory Modalities in Fibromyalgia.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- Fatigue, interoplastic and nociplastic distress in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, Gulf War Illness, and chronic idiopathic fatigue.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
Changes in subjective sensory sensitivity - reporting sensory stimuli as being atypically intense or weak - are a transdiagnostic symptom of several disorders. The present study documents for the first time the sensory sensitivity profile of fibromyalgia, taking a questionnaire measure that asks about different sensory modalities and both hyper- and hyposensitivity (the Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire, GSQ). The fibromyalgia group had higher overall scores on this measure. This was linked more strongly to sensory hypersensitivity and was pervasive across all senses that were surveyed. Although differences in hyposensitivity were found, these were sporadic (perhaps linked to the symptoms of fibromyalgia itself) and did not resemble the pattern documented for autism (e.g., self-stimulating and repetitive behaviours were not a feature of fibromyalgia). We suggest that individual differences in subjective sensory hypersensitivity may be a multisensory dispositional trait linked to fibromyalgia which ultimately becomes most pronounced for pain.
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