The effect of concomitant fibromyalgia in HIV infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy: a prospective cross-sectional study, 2019, Demirdal

Open access, https://ann-clinmicrob.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12941-019-0330-0

 

Abnormally high. Suggesting either poor diagnosis or that the aforementioned widespread pain found in HIV patients is similar to FM, to a degree anyway.

Right idea, but detection doesn't mean diddly-squat without useful treatments. Proper treatment would to those things, not mere detection.

This seems to be the interesting bit. Though that's a big spread:

Only tables, doesn't appear to be figures.

That was interesting too:

More likely that it reveals that typical questionnaires used for fatigue assessment make little distinction between what is actually experienced and reported by patients with what researchers have redefined fatigue to mean, i.e. something entirely different based on some perception of tiredness. Typical.

Given how specific antiretroviral therapy is, not much of a surprise that it doesn't have any effect. FM could be similarly caused by immune response to infection, but it's unlikely to be caused by a specific virus, let alone a retrovirus. Still, some interesting things out of this study.