There is a recently study referenced on the Women’s College Hospital website citing a study performed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology that women who don’t get enough sleep are much more likely to suffer from Fibromyalgia:
The researchers found that women with sleep problems were significantly more likely to develop fibromyalgia than those who did not. They also found a strong relationship between fibromyalgia risk and severity of sleep problems, and particularly high risks in women ages 45 and older.
Compared to women with no trouble sleeping, the overall risk of developing fibromyalgia was almost doubled in women who reported sometimes having sleep problems, and more than tripled (3.4-fold risk) in women who reported having sleep problems often or all the time.
For women 45 and over, those who sometimes had sleep problems had more than 2.5 times the fibromyalgia risk of women with no sleep problems. This increased to a 5.4-fold risk for women who often or always had sleep problems.