Self-Test for Fibromyalgia

Using the tip of your index finger, apply firm pressure over the following areas of your body:

• Posterior neck muscles at base of neck
• Sternocleidomastoid muscles of neck
• Ribs just under your collar bone
• Upper trapezius muscle
• Levator scapula muscle (where it inserts into shoulder blade)
• Lateral elbows (epicondyles)
• Pelvic iliac spine (bony bumps behind your pelvis)
• Greater trochanters (bony bumps over your hip joints)
• Medial (inner) knees

If you feel unusually sensitive and sore over these areas for more than two weeks in a row, you by conventional definition (remember, there is no “objective” diagnostic test) have fibromyalgia.

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