Rheumatology

Pain Medicine

Questions discussed in this category

What do you recommend to patients when they are having an acute flare of fibromyalgia symptoms?

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How do you approach patients with fibromyalgia who are reluctant to consider a psychiatric component to their illness but present with clear mood or anxiety symptoms?

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Do you view the difference between oral and sublingual cyclobenzaprine as clinically significant?

Will you try the sublingual formulation in a patient who has failed the oral formulation, or vice versa?

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How do you work with patients to establish reasonable treatment goals for the management of fibromyalgia-related pain?

What tools do you track to assess progress toward these goals?

2 Answers available

Do you use naltrexone in your patients with fibromyalgia?

What are common drug interactions/things to be aware of?

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Papers discussed in this category

The Lancet. Rheumatology, 2023 Dec 05

Naltrexone 6 mg once daily versus placebo in women with fibromyalgia: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Pain reports, 2023 Jun 15

Low-dose naltrexone for treatment of pain in patients with fibromyalgia: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study.

The Lancet. Rheumatology, 2023 Dec 05

Is low-dose naltrexone for fibromyalgia another treatment disappointment?

Frontiers in medicine, 2023 Apr 25

High overlap in patients diagnosed with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or hypermobile spectrum disorders with fibromyalgia and 40 self-reported symptoms and comorbidities.

Arthritis and rheumatism, 1994-01

Comparison of amitriptyline, cyclobenzaprine, and placebo in the treatment of fibromyalgia. A randomized, double-blind clinical trial.

Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.), 2025 Jul 08

Pain Relief by Targeting Nonrestorative Sleep in Fibromyalgia: A Phase 3 Randomized Trial of Bedtime Sublingual Cyclobenzaprine.

Arthritis care & research, 2023 Jul 04

Efficacy and Safety of Sublingual Cyclobenzaprine for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia: Results From a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial.

Annals of medicine, 2011 Jul 19

Fibromyalgia diagnosis and diagnostic criteria.

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