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Natural Cures for Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a long term condition affecting the soft tissues (muscles, ligaments and tendons) rather than the bones and joints. It usually presents as chronic pain, stiffness and aching in the muscles, mostly near joints such as the shoulders and hips. It can be difficult to differentiate from CFS although the latter is usually precipitated by a flu like illness. It may be associated with symptoms of headache, weariness and poor concentration. Many patients have disturbed sleep and others may have bowel disturbances.
It may be confused with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Fibromyalgia Treatments
Modern Western Medicine
Medical treatment is mainly supportive with the use of NSAIDs (Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs) like Meloxicam (Mobic), Naproxen (Naprosyn), Nabumetone (Relifex), Etodolac (Lodine) and Diclofenac (Voltarol), or more simple drugs as paracetamol for the pain. If the pain is severe stronger painkillers may be prescribed such as codeine and other opiates. Treatment designed to relieve the muscle spasms such as diazepam may be prescibed and if there is a very specific "trigger point" steroid injection into that point may help. Finally Low-dose tricyclic antidepressants, such as amitryptiline - can ease pain and help with disturbed sleep, as can selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors such as fluoxetine (prozac), sertraline (lustral) and citalopram (cipramil).
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Natural Cures from Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Fibromyalgia
| Autogenic Training |
| Biofeedback |
| Healing Touch |
| Asian Bodywork Therapy |
| Aromatherapy |
| Acupuncture |
| Chiropractic |
| Hypnosis |
| Massage |
| Neurolinguistic Programming |
Please also check out Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category.
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Fibromyalgia
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
| Mrs. | Cindy | Fisher | British Columbia | Canada | |
| Mr. | Simon | Henderson | London | Great Britain | |
| Mr. | Michael | Wolfes | California | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Debby | Shapiro | Colorado | United States of America | |
| Dr. | Peter | Zilahy | Connecticut | United States of America | |
| Mr. | Dan | Rowlands | Florida | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Pamela | Bellamy | Georgia | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Mary | Cook | Georgia | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Laura P. | Strickland | Georgia | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Laurel | Colpitts | Louisiana | United States of America | |
| Mrs. | Pamela | Heyen | Missouri | United States of America | |
Natural Cures for Fibromyalgia Blog
Add your contributions to the "Natural Cures for Fibromyalgia" blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Fibromyalgia Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Fibrohugs | Canada | National |
| FM-CFS Canada | Canada | National |
| Fibromyagia Support Net | Great Britain | National |
| Fibromyalgia Association UK | Great Britain | National |
| Pain Relief Foundation | Great Britain | National |
| Ukfibromyalgia.com | Great Britain | National |
| Irish Chronic Pain Association | Ireland | National |
| American Fibromyalgia Syndrome Association | United States of America | National |
| Fibromyalgia Network | United States of America | National |
| National Fibromyalgia Association | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
Places to Eat and Stay, Tourist, Town and Travel Guides
These sections are designed to provide help in finding restaurants, cafes, hotels, resorts, towns, beaches, travel companies and so on that are user friendly for our communities.
Shopping Zone
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | Great cookbook by Glenis Lucas. Introduction by me! |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | |
