Nerve conduction tests in patients with fibromyalgia: comparison with normal controls

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Paresthesias in the extremities are a common complaint in fibromyalgia (FM) patients, and the role of the peripheral nervous system in paresthesias in FM patients is not clear. I would like to thank Drs. Caro and Winter for their interest and who raised several points on my paper about nerve conduction tests in FM patients with paresthesias [1]. They mentioned the low mean age of the FM patients in my study as a possible source of bias. In the review of the studies on FM published from different cities of Turkey in recent years, the mean age of the FM patients reported were similar and even lower than the population presented in my study [2, 3, 4]. In addition, the control subjects were age- and sex-matched with the FM patients. However, certainly new studies including older and male patients from different geographic areas will better serve for generalizing results of the present study to all FM population. …