Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition whose symptoms include muscle and tissue pain, fatigue, depression, and sleep disturbances; it often mimics or appears together with other chronic conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), lupus, and arthritis. “There are usually other things that are triggering it, so you have to individualize treatment for each patient,” says [...]
Most doctors are not too enthusiastic about natural and homeopathic means of treating fibromyalgia.
Low-dose naltrexone (LDN) may be useful in treating fibromyalgia, according to research published online April 22 in Pain Medicine. Jarred Younger, Ph.D., and Sean Mackey, M.D., of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., analyzed data from 10 women with fibromyalgia who went through a single-blind crossover trial with two weeks of [...]
10 women with fibromyalgia to take part in a small pilot study at Stanford over a 14-week period to test the new use of a low dose of a drug called naltrexone for the treatment of chronic pain. The drug, which has been used clinically for more than 30 years to treat opioid addiction, was [...]
A low dose of naltrexone, a drug commonly used to treat alcoholism and drug addiction, is effective in relieving pain and fatigue in some patients with fibromyalgia, researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California have found. Click Here For More Info
You have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. Now you need to focus on the best treatment for Fibromyalgia for you. The good news is that doctors know what is wrong with you. You finally have the reasons why your body hurts all over and you can’t sleep, and you are exhausted during the day even when [...]
Fibromyalgia is a chronic and painful condition that affects the muscles of the body. It can lead to extreme fatigue, sleep problems, depression and digestive disorders. While fibromyalgia does not seem to do any permanent damage to the body in any way, the symptoms can be difficult to cope with and lead to other side [...]
Fibromyalgia is considered a syndrome, which means that a cluster of symptoms will develop with no known cause attached. This makes a condition like fibromyalgia difficult to diagnose, since a doctor will need to perform a comprehensive workup based on symptoms, family history and perhaps medical tests. Unlike other diseases and illnesses that can be [...]
Although the causes of fibromyalgia are unknown, its sources of pain, called “trigger points,” are not. These are multiple tender points on the body. In making a clinical diagnosis, a physician confirms the presence of fibromyalgia trigger points on at least eleven out of eighteen parts of the body. These painful areas are typically located [...]
Fibromyalgia affects five percent of the population which is about 6 million people in the United States. This condition produces intense pain throughout the body of the victim of this awful syndrome. The people who suffer from fibromyalgia also feel great fatigue and have a difficult time sleeping at night. These people are very disturbed [...]
Fibromyalgia syndrome affects many people every year, and the causes and cures remain elusive for some of these patients. Although fibromyalgia syndrome affects so many people, the experts in the medical field have not been able to provide great insight into this condition. Some people seem to develop fibromyalgia syndrome more readily than others, and [...]
Fibromyalgia is characterized by severe joint and muscle pain, fatigue as well as a number of other symptoms. It usually affects women more than men and is usually passed from person to person through their genetic makeup. If you have fibromyalgia, you have likely spent a long time trying to find fibromyalgia relief. Well, the [...]
It happens in a split second—you feel an impact of some sort as you are in your car, and as a result you feel your neck thrust backward and forward. Frequently occurring as a result of rear-end car accidents, this sensation, known as whiplash, is quite common.
Many people feel tired throughout the day and they usually attribute it to a lack of sleep. These people will try everything, from changing beds to changing pillows to taking sleeping aides, thinking it has something to do with their quality of sleep that’s causing them to feel so tired throughout the day. However, it [...]
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a condition wherein people experience a great deal of fatigue and weakness, making it difficult to perform even the simplest tasks, such as eating, dressing or walking. Although this disease has been around since 1700 with a different medical name, many doctors doubted its existence and regarded it as a [...]
The first question is always the same when a doctor first gives the diagnosis of fibromyalgia: What is fibromyalgia? The problem as of this writing is the question still remains unanswered. There is no definite answer. In the United States, it is estimated that over 6 million people suffer fibromyalgia.