Fibromyalgia used to be called fibrositis but there is no inflammation associated with it so the name was eventually changed. I remember in the early 1950's our old country doctor told my mother she had fibrositis. I think her mother had it also and I have it. I think great- grandma might have had it , too, based on some of the OLD letters I read. Grandma would say she had to take a "physick" for a certain illness (lumbago, reumatix) and I found some recipes for them in her things. Yikes! Some of the ingredients are scary. They must have worked to some degree because many of those folks were tough. I'm surprised that modern medicine hasn't found a good and effective treatment for fibro. I gave up because everything I take for it has side effects I can't live with.