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Other medications can be used to treat fibromyalgia, including benzodiazepine sedatives for sleep disturbances, non-benzodiazepine sedatives for sleep problems, and anesthetic or botox injections to relieve specific muscle pains. Exercise and physical therapy are also components to treatment that can help reduce pain.
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Study Reveals Wide Range of Treatments Used for Fibromyalgia
A new study published in the October 2012 issue of Pain Medicine investigated the burden of illness and treatment patterns in 1,700 patients with fibromyalgia from July 2008 through May 2010 in 58 care settings in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Despite the fact that only three drugs have received FDA approval for the treatment of FM (Lyrica,…
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