i have fibromyagia and at night im always having a hard time sleeping a becouse of stiness pain and b becouse i get some weird like pinching sensations at rest what can i do to relieve this, has any one heard of a vital wrap im trying to get my insurance to pay for this its a heat and cold like pump that wraps around your body for pain.
10/26/08 11:48pm
Good luck with getting the Vital Wrap reimbursed. It certainly sounds like an intriguing idea. Unfortunately there haven't been any studies that examined its effectiveness in FM and I wasn't able to find much information on it.
I assume you've tried sleep medications (?). You should also make sure you're practicing good sleep hygiene and consider doing relaxation/meditation-type exercises before you go to sleep to try and get in as deep a sleep state as possible.
Below is some information on sleep hygiene and connected to the page are some alternative remedies for sleep. Good luck with the VitalWrap and your sleep - getting better sleep is a very important part of getting better with FM.
http://phoenix-cfs.org/TrtSleepHygiene.htm
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