Fibromyalgia News

Fibromyalgia pain: Options for coping If you have fibromyalgia, difficult days are inevitable.

Fibromyalgia Pain at Night 10 Tips for Better Sleep Do you toss and turn at night because of fibromyalgia pain or discomfort? "People with fibromyalgia tend to have very disturbed sleep," says Doris Cope, MD, director of Pain Management at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

A healthy diet and regular exercise are essential to anyone who wants to feel well. For someone with fibromyalgia, those two things play a critical role in helping to reduce pain, increase energy and improve quality of life.

NEWSBRIEF: If you take Ultram ER for round-the-clock fibromyalgia pain treatment , you'll soon have a generic option of the same drug.

It's a vicious cycle: A poor night's sleep makes your fibromyalgia symptoms worse, and then the pain makes it hard to fall asleep at night.

Every moment of every day is filled with uncertainty. If you do some light housework, you may pay for it later... or you may not. If you go on that family outing, you may develop a severe migraine from the light or the noise... or you may not. When you wake up in the morning feeling as if you've fought with a Mack truck and lost, you don't know if you'll be able to even sit up without help, never mind trying to take the lid off the toothpaste tube. When you go to bed at night, you don't know if those muscle relaxers the doctor gave you are going to help you, or make things worse by relaxing your body too much. And yes, it's possible for the muscles to become too relaxed, which in turn, leads to pain that defies the charts. On a scale of one to ten, the pain can feel like a thousand after you've taken muscle relaxers to help you sleep.

This is a small part of what living with fibromyalgia is like. But it's not all there is. You also have to live with the disbelief others offer when you try to explain to them why you can't do things the same way, why you can't make it in to work, why you can't go out, why your life has all but come to a stop

DEAR DR. GOTT: I am writing to you because of your willingness to share information on remedies that have been reported successful by your readers.

The recent article on the difficulty in treating fibromyalgia reinforces the urgency in making available sibutramine hydrochloride monohydrate (Meridia) to FM sufferers. Some doctors have found it to be successful in treating this widespread disorder. An 83 percent success rate was noted in an article in the September 2002 issue of Arthritis and Rheumatism journal...

A campaign for a pain relief product endorsed by 1970s tennis star Virginia Wade has been banned by the advertising watchdog for discouraging people from seeking help for serious medical problems.

Copy in the ad campaign made a number of claims including that it was "specifically recommended" for conditions including back pain and sciatica, arthritis and fibromyalgia.

A WOMAN who suffers from a debilitating illness is offering expert advice to fellow sufferers.

The cognitive dysfunction of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome is a major problem that can impact our lives as much as pain or fatigue.

The flu vaccine topic is always controversial among those of us with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome , and H1N1 added a whole new layer to that this year.

Fibromyalgia is a condition that can cause intense and sometimes unabating pain all over the body. For this reason many patients afflicted with the disorder find it difficult to complete their everyday activities, let alone consider an exercise regimen.

A short investment of time in mental training can help you manage pain, concludes a new study.

Fibromyalgia will likely affect many areas of your life, and unfortunately there's no "one thing" that will make you feel better.

AFTER spending years as his mother's carer, Danny Stepney has launched his own Swindon therapy charity to help others - but is struggling to meet growing costs.

Danny, 25, of Oakhurst, had cared for Christine, 51, constantly in the past few years after she was crippled by the muscle disease fibromyalgia.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used by more than a third of all Americans. This is one in an occasional Associated Press series on their use and potential risks.

Brenda Witak didn't know it at the time, but her daughter Kendra's love for horses was just what she needed to alleviate her fibromyalgia.

I think we all know a few people who've been hit with the flu this year, both the seasonal one and H1N1 (swine flu). It's kind of a no brainer that the flu would hit those of us with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome harder than it does most people -- what doesn't?

Dear Dr. Gott: The recent article on the difficulty in treating fibromyalgia reinforces the urgency in making available sibutramine hydrochloride monohydrate to FM sufferers.

Regarding Wayne Madsen's Oct. 28 commentary, 'Should prescription drug ads be banned on TV?' the ads for drugs do alert people that fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome and other illnesses are real.