Still at the Beginning? A recent review “Current and Emerging Pharmacotherapy for Fibromyalgia” examined the state of drug therapy for FM. It was a bluntly honest review. The news on the drug side has not been, after all, all that good in FM. A large study...
What do a vaccine, a cough suppressant, a drug with only numbers for a name, an anesthetic, and the new migraine drugs have in common? They’re all either being tested in an FM clinical trial or are about to be. FM may not be getting a lot of research but...
Both fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) clearly need better treatments. The FDA-approved drugs for these diseases are too often ineffective, come with too many side effects (fibromyalgia) or just aren’t available at all (ME/CFS). Too many...
“Finding an objective neurochemical change in the brains of people who are used to being told that their problems are imaginary is pretty important…” Marco Loggia Jarred Younger has believed for quite some time that the glial cells in fibromyalgia...
Sleep disturbances and severe stress as glial activators: key targets for treating central sensitization in chronic pain patients?Jo Nijs,Marco L. Loggia,Andrea Polli,Maarten Moens,Eva Huysmans,Lisa Goudman, Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets Volume 21, 2017...
Fibromyalgia syndrome – Novel therapeutic agents. J. Ablin and D. Buskila. Maturitas 2013 “The long term follow-up of FMS patients indicates…..that the degree of improvement achieved by many medications…is modest at best” Ablin and Buskia...
