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February 26, 2020February 26, 2020

Addiction Medicine Naltrexone May Relieve Tenderness, Fatigue in Fibromyalgia, Pilot Study Shows

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Daily low oral doses of naltrexone — a medicine normally used to treat opioid or alcohol addiction — may relieve tenderness, fatigue, and pain in people with fibromyalgia, a pilot ... Read more

June 5, 2017June 5, 2017

Fibromyalgia Pain Symptoms Improve with Reduction of Blood Inflammatory Markers, Study Shows

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Fibromyalgia (FM) patients treated with a low dose of Revia/Vivitrol (naltrexone) showed improved pain symptoms, a pilot study found. These patients also experienced significantly reduced inflammatory markers in their blood. ... Read more

March 29, 2016March 29, 2016

Understanding Brain Immune Interactions in Fibromyalgia May Lead to Better Treatments

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While fibromyalgia is increasingly viewed as a serious medical problem, patients are still regularly dismissed with demeaning comments like the disease is just in their heads. But new brain research might ... Read more

October 23, 2015October 23, 2015

UAB Researcher’s Focus Is Fibromyalgia’s Many Mysteries

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Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic illness of indeterminate cause, a syndrome — that is, a constellation of signs and symptoms observed in, and characteristic of, a single condition — ... Read more