Last spring, I invited those of you who have fibromyalgia to participate in a survey about what kind of impact fibromyalgia has had on your relationships with family and friends. I am happy to tell you that the results of that survey have been published in the journal Musculoskeletal Care and I can now share them with you.
We had an amazing... Read more
According to research presented earlier this month at the American College of Rheumatology's Annual Meeting, the pain experienced by people with fibromyalgia may be caused by a problem with the way pain stimuli are processed in the brain. Abnormal pain signal processing may also help explain why some people with fibromyalgia do not respond well to... Read more
A systematic review, published in the October 2012 issue of the journal Addiction, found that only 4.5% of people who are prescribed opioid painkillers for chronic pain develop a problem with addiction.
Study Design and Results
Researchers reviewed 17 studies, which involved a total of 88,235 patients. Most of the studies included... Read more
A case was recently reported of a 70-year-old man who developed rhabdomyolysis after his Lyrica (pregabalin) dosage was increased and he was also given Zocor (simvastatin), a statin drug usually given for high cholesterol. Rhabdomyolysis is the breakdown of muscle fibers that leads to the release of muscle fiber contents (myoglobin) into the... Read more
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,... Read more
