Hope for Fibromyalgia sufferers?

[saffronrose]

Low-Dose Naltrexone reduces the symptoms of Fibromyalgia

Naltrexone is also called Revia by its manufacturer, DuPont Pharma.

Fibromyalgia Symptoms are reduced by low-dose naltrexone: A pilot study.
Pain Medicine (2009)
Jarred W. Younger and Sean C. Mackey

Comments

[saffronrose]

I'm glad to hear that! I seem to have a number of online friends & acquaintances with fibro or similar illnesses, so I wanted to distribute that info widely.

[androgenie]

interesting...I was on naltrexone about 9 years ago (I was told it had some clinical utility in people that self injure, which is why I was put on it), but it made me hurt worse....interesting though! I hope it helps folks!

[saffronrose]

Sorry to hear that. Have you had anything better since?

[androgenie]

sadly nope. Therapy helped the issues that were related to the SIV, but for pain no (as I typed that, I sighed pretty loudly....today's a bad pain day, along with some nerve issues).

[saffronrose]

So sorry--wish I could help.

[davesslave]

My friend Selah suffers from fibromyalgia. I'm going to let her know about this.

[saffronrose]

Great!

[brightlotusmoon]

This actually reminds me of a plant called kratom. It binds to opiod receptors and has been traditionally used to treat opiate addiction in parts of South Asia. It's also a painkiller, muscle relaxant, mood enhancer, anti-diarrheal, aphrodisiac, and mild anti-depressant. And I can say that it absolutely reduces my fibromyalgia symptoms.

Sometimes when a pharmaceutical drug comes out that sounds like a medicinal plant, I have to wonder if the drug was processed from the plant!

[saffronrose]

That kraton sounds like some marvel! Truly multifunctional.

When people claim herbs and plants are "natural" with "no side effects", one wonders what they're thinking. If they work, they contain a drug, although not necessarily one harvested for investigation by pharma. Some work less strongly than a synthehsized version--but something there was working for enough people to warrant investigation, and we don't necessarily learn that origin.

[brightlotusmoon]

Exactly. Everything has side effects. Just because some people don't experience those side effects doesn't mean the product is wonderful. Kratom has a bunch of side effects. It's a drug. It's a medicine. Which is why I'm careful with it.