Optimal treatment for patients with co-occurring PTSD and fibromyalgia requires coordinated, multidisciplinary care.

Ever feel like your entire body is staging a protest, leaving you completely exhausted, no matter how much sleep you catch? If that deep, widespread ache refuses to leave for months at a time, you ...

Fibromyalgia may often cause “invisible” symptoms, such as sleepiness and migraine. Sometimes, though, fibromyalgia may cause visible skin symptoms, like rash. It’s not easy to spot fibromyalgia. This ...

Low-dose naltrexone does not provide real clinical benefit for patients with fibromyalgia compared to placebo, according to a clinical trial.

A combination of medical treatments, such as pain medication, fibromyalgia drugs, antidepressants, and sleep aids, can help manage fibromyalgia symptoms. A person may need to try different options to ...

Many studies link fibromyalgia and depression. In fact, people with fibromyalgia are up to three times more likely to have depression at the time of their diagnosis than someone without fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia is a condition marked by widespread chronic pain and fatigue with no known cause. Though the pain may not have been caused by an injury, it is real. When fibromyalgia is diagnosed and ...

Pain—whether it's an achy joint or a sensitive limb—is agony enough by itself. But when you can't figure out what's causing the pain? Then it can feel more like torture. Unfortunately, that kind of ...

Fibromyalgia and lupus are both chronic conditions that share some of the same symptoms. Diagnosis can actually be difficult because the conditions appear to be similar. Each condition requires a ...

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that causes widespread pain throughout the body. One study indicates that people with endometriosis may be more likely to have fibromyalgia than those without.

As many as 10 million Americans are living with fibromyalgia. Magnesium may help manage symptoms like pain, muscle cramps, stress and poor sleep. Yet, nearly half of us don’t consume enough ...

Fibromyalgia is a complex syndrome with a wide array of symptoms, including chronic widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, cognitive dysfunction, and psychological issues. The diagnosis and ...