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Why painkillers fail for Fibromyalgia patients
Fibromyalgia patients often suffer from chronic pain, but for some reason they find commonly prescribed pain medications are not very effective. Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System believe they may know the reason. Pain killers, like Darvocet,Vicodin, and Oxycontin, work by binding to opioid receptors in the brain and spinal cord. The study [...]
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1 Comment » World Fibromyalgia Day – May 12, 2008
Heanne Hambleton lives in England and has found what so many other Fibromyalgia patients have experienced world wide–that it is difficult for friends, family, and neighbors to understand and appreciate the pain and suffering. It is sometimes difficult to comprehend how someone can look so normal, but be in constant pain. In a recent post, [...]
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Fibromyalgia (FMS) Fibromyalgia seen as a potential $2 billion market
Currently, over 20 drugs are in development for the treatment of fibromyalgia. That number is expected to grow in the next year. At present, the only drug to be approved for the treatment of fibromyalgia, by the FDA, is Lyrica. Sales of Lyrica are expected to reach $641 million in 2016 according the business forecasting [...]
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Fibromyalgia (FMS) A child’s growing pains may actually be Fibromyalgia
Most guidelines suggest that Fibromyalgia affects people over 40 and affects 9 times as many women as men. It might be time to revise that traditional thinking according to a Daily Mail article. A recent study found 6% of school age children in Mexico, Finland, and Israel reported muscular pain. Often when school age children [...]
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Fibromyalgia (FMS) Cymbalta used to treat fibromyalgia pain
CNN Money recently ran a Dow Jones Newswire story about Eli Lilly’s recent study using Cymbalta for reducing pain in fibromyalgia patients.* Eli Lilly’s study claims that after one week fibromyalgia patients using Cymbalta had less pain than the control group taking a placebo. After three months, fibromyalgia patients receiving Cymbalta experienced significantly greater reduction in [...]
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Fibromyalgia chronic pain may be due to constricted muscles
It is difficult to discuss Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) without chronic pain entering the discussion. There are a lot of theories about what causes the pain and just as many theories that purport to offer a treatment to alleviate it. Yale researchers believe that they may know what causes fibromyalgia patients to experience chronic pain. They [...]
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NIH addresses chronic pain
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) consists of numerous institutes that address a variety of medical issues. Often the addressed diseases and conditions deal with chronic pain and the NIH has prepared information to address those issues at a variety of web sites. Acupuncture for Osteoarthritis of the Knee Acupuncture for Fibroymyalgia Arthritis Information Arthritis [...]
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Arthritis and Lupus, Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia (FMS), General, Medical Issues, Orthopedic One woman’s struggle to survive fibromyalgia
Lindsay is a blogger who frequently posts about her struggle with Fibromyalgia (FMS). She has been dealing with it for the past decade and only identified it as FMS for the past 5 years. She is the kind of woman who does not accept things at face value. Her inquisitive mind searches for the whys [...]
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Fibromyalgia (FMS) Is fibromyalgia in the body or mind?
In a Rheumatology Journalarticle researchers report on how they measured the blood flow and skin temperature in the area of 5 known tender points of both Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) patients and a control group without the syndrome. Blood flow was measured using a laser Doppler flowmetry and skin temperature was measured with an infrared thermometer. [...]
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Fibromyalgia (FMS) Two Chiropractors offer overview of fibromyalgia literature
Currently, Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is primarily diagnosed when a patient has 11 tender points (out of a possible 18) in all 4 quadrants of the body. This criteria was developed by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) in 1990. In 1994, the Vancouver Fibromyalgia Consensus Group, (VFCG), convened and found fibromyalgia presents several clear issues: [...]
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