Ms Jude Bromley:

We were asked whether other members of the group have relatives with fibromyalgia. The mother and sister of one lady in my group in Donegal have fibromyalgia, as does the cousin of another lady. The latter lady is from Donegal and her cousin lives in Australia. The research is ongoing but it is suspected that the syndrome is always present but needs a trigger to develop. We do not know how that ties in with genetics but I can see from our groups there is definitely a link.