Does My Fibromyalgia Qualify for Social Security Disability?

Fibromyalgia is a rheumatic disease of chronic inflammation of muscles, tendons and other tissue.The disease is poorly understood by the medical community and is only generally described by the American College of Rheumatology Guidelines as "primarily widespread pain in all four quadrants of the body".
Fibromyalgia can be disabling. But to do so for SSA disability is difficult. There is no known cause, there is no cure and most importantly its symptoms are entirely subjective. The diagnostic testing currently used and accepted by the medical community involves testing, matching of a detailed list of symptoms and a painstaking exclusion of other possible disorders. It is not unusual for the patient to have long periods of "nothing-wrong" diagnoses and still suffer from the disease. Although Fibromyalgia may not be a disease that is readily diagnosed in a lab, the Social Security Act does not require more to establish its presence. Brown v. Barnhart, 182 Fed. Appx. 771 (10th Cir. 2006)