It wasn’t always the case, but today, sleep problems are recognized as central characteristics of fibromyalgia. The presence of disrupted sleep and insomnia, as well as lack of restorative sleep and ...

A study from Norway found the more often women experienced sleep problems, the more likely they were to develop fibromyalgia 10 years later, according to a CNN report. The study began in the mid-1980s ...

“Sleep is important to restore the body, but also to clear waste in the brain,” says Brian Koo, MD, a neurologist and assistant professor of neurology at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, ...

Patients with fibromyalgia who used cannabis-based medicinal products demonstrated modest, medium-term improvements in pain, ...

For years, Shatha lived with pain she could not prove - only explain. Fatigue, shifting aches and sleep that never felt restorative crept into her life during her teenage years, long before she had a ...

Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic pain from no clear source. Patients with fibromyalgia frequently have sleep problems: Their deep sleep brain wave patterns are often disrupted by brain waves ...

Pharmacotherapy should not be a first-line approach to sleep disturbances in fibromyalgia. Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) may be the most effective treatment for improving sleep ...

If you or a loved one has fibromyalgia, you may be considering treatment options. One medication you might hear about is Savella (milnacipran). Fibromyalgia is a long-lasting condition that most ...