Ms Jude Bromley:

It is estimated that between 2% and 4% of the population in America and the UK have fibromyalgia but because we are not recognised here there are no official figures. We only know how many are in our support groups. The group in Donegal, for example, has between 120 and 130 members and at least another 40 do not attend meetings because they are not well enough to do so.