Category: Fibromyalgia

According to WebMD, “The first medication doctors will often try for people with fibromyalgia is an antidepressant, which helps relieve pain, fatigue, and sleep problems. In addition, antidepressants help depression, which is commonly seen in people with fibromyalgia. Older antidepressants, called tricyclics, have been used for many years to treat fibromyalgia.” “The tricyclic antidepressants, including Elavil (amitriptyline) and Pamelor (nortriptyline),

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According to Livestrong.com, “Fibromyalgia and multiple sclerosis are potentially debilitating disorders that lead to chronic pain. Fibromyalgia is characterized by muscle pain and stiffness, profound fatigue and difficulty sleeping. Multiple sclerosis can cause a wide range of symptoms, including vision problems, muscle weakness, painful muscle spasms and poor bladder control. Both fibromyalgia and multiple sclerosis tend to affect women more

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Fibromyalgia (or pain in the muscles) is not a disease. According to ezinearticles.com, “It’s actually classified as a “syndrome” rather than “disease“. A “syndrome” is defined as a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease or the like. In contract, the word “disease” is a term which implies that all people with a given disorder

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According to fibrocenter.org, “Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts longer than 3 months. That’s the main symptom of fibromyalgia: widespread muscle pain and tenderness that lasts longer than 3 months. Widespread pain is defined as pain both above and below the waist and on both the right and left sides of the body. At its best, fibromyalgia may

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According to eHow.com, “Look at pain management over-the-counter medications types which consist of ibuprofen, naproxen or acetaminophen,” and “Consider prescription pain management prescriptions such as Tramadol/Ultram and Lyrica, which are non-narcotic medications, or low dosages of anti-depressants, which are serotonin re-uptake inhibitors such as Cymbalta, which helps to improve sleep and relieve pain.” Moreover, when it comes to sleep problems,

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  Fibromyalgia is a syndrome (fibromyalgia syndrome, or FMS), or a cluster of problems. People who have fibromyalgia suffer with pain, either all over or in particular places, have sleeping problems, are overwhelmingly tired and may have many other symptoms. Five to ten per cent of the population has fibromyalgia. Most of them are women, but men and children do

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According to fibrocenter.org, “Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts longer than 3 months. That’s the main symptom of fibromyalgia: widespread muscle pain and tenderness that lasts longer than 3 months. Widespread pain is defined as pain both above and below the waist and on both the right and left sides of the body. At its best, fibromyalgia may

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According to eHow.com, “Look at pain management over-the-counter medications types which consist of ibuprofen, naproxen or acetaminophen,” and “Consider prescription pain management prescriptions such as Tramadol/Ultram and Lyrica, which are non-narcotic medications, or low dosages of anti-depressants, which are serotonin re-uptake inhibitors such as Cymbalta, which helps to improve sleep and relieve pain.” Moreover, when it comes to sleep problems,

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By solving a long standing scientific mystery, the common saying “you just hit a nerve” might need to be updated to “you just hit a Merkel cell,” jokes Jianguo Gu, PhD, a pain researcher at the…

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