fibromyalgia

It seems like all of my friends are having jaw pain. As we trudged deeper into our 30s, I was prepared to hear about bad backs and tricky knees. But the mouth stuff was unexpected. Some were grinding their teeth at night and needed mouthguards. Others had doctors inject botulinum toxin, commonly referred to as Botox, into aching jaws. And we are all now extremely familiar with a new body part: the TMJ, or temporomandibular joint, which connects the jawbone to the skull. TMJ is a common, convenient shorthand for jaw…

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t’s never too late to start new habits, but it’s not uncommon to wish you’d started them when you were way younger. Recently, I asked the adults of the BuzzFeed Community to share a habit or routine they do now that they wish they’d started sooner, and I’m taking some mental notes: 1.”Constantly waking up at the same time every day. It sounded so hard and pointless in my 20s, but it really does give you better sleep, and I’m now used to being awake at a certain time. I enjoy my weekends more…

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Haley Hernandez, Health Reporter Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that includes widespread pain, fatigue, and other symptoms that can significantly impact a person’s quality of life. “The first time I had a flare, I told my husband, like, I feel like I’m dying. Like, I feel like there’s something very, very wrong with me,” Lory Valadez said. “Even with my most recent flare, it’s the same kind of pain where I’m like, if I were to be dying in pain, this is what it feels like.” Valadez was a healthy…

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Andie Willis has been battling with the UK’s healthcare system since the age of 16. Andrea Willis, also known as Andie, has been battling with the UK’s healthcare system since the age of 16. Now in her 40’s she has found a treatment that works for controlling her pain and gives her a better quality of life. Andie Willis, 49, lives with constant pain due to the debilitating condition fibromyalgia, resulting in symptoms including muscle spasms, a dry mouth and constant fatigue. But fibromyalgia isn’t the only health condition Andie has…

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Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain condition that predominantly affects women. Evidence implies that FM is associated with dysfunction of the central nervous system (CNS). In this study, we investigated the structural differences between FM patients and healthy control (HC) subjects using a multivariate approach. Source-based morphometry (SBM) was applied to structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) data consisting of 20 FM patients (46.4 ± 12.5), and age and gender-matched 20 HC subjects (42.1 ± 12.5). SBM revealed greater grey matter volume (GMV) in the bilateral thalamus in FM patients. Conversely, lower GMV was found…

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Fibromyalgia, Pain, and Substance Use Disorders Key points Fibromyalgia affects between 4 and 10 million and 60 million people suffer from > 3months of pain Opioid, Cannabis, and Alcohol Use Is Particularly Risky Self-Medication in Pain This Is Especially True in FM’s nociplastic pain- brain pathways involved in FM are also involved in addiction. Fibromyalgia and chronic pain create a “fertile breeding ground” for self-medication and iatrogenic addiction. . Fibromyalgia involves abnormal pain processing; the brain struggles to turn off pain signals. Many brain pathways involved in fibromyalgia are also involved in addiction.…

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In a milestone moment for chronic pain management, Tonix Pharmaceuticals announced on August 15, 2025, that its novel sublingual therapy Tonmya has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – marking the first new drug for Fibromyalgia in more than 15 years. The medication is now commercially available by prescription in U.S. pharmacies, offering new hope to the roughly 10 million American adults affected by this debilitating condition. A first-in-class, non-opioid approach Tonmya represents a new therapeutic class: a non-opioid, once-daily sublingual tablet designed for bedtime use.…

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With no existing cure for fibromyalgia, a chronic pain syndrome, current treatments focus on managing the symptoms like pain, fatigue and poor sleep, with exercise being a key part of the recommendations. Otherwise, the only solutions available are cognitive therapies and antidepressants, due the variability of symptoms from patient to patient. The only FDA-approved drugs to treat fibromyalgia are antidepressants duloxetine (Cymbalta) and milnacipran (Savella), and antiepileptic pregabalin (Lyrica), and drug discovery efforts have had limited success in recent years.  The 2024 FDA fast-track ruling on Tonmya (cyclobenzaprine HCl sublingual tablets) has…

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Background: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic condition characterized by widespread pain, fatigue, and mood disturbances. Management often involves pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, but optimal treatment strategies remain unclear. Objective: To compare the effectiveness of dry needling combined with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) versus trigger point injections for pain management in fibromyalgia patients. Methods: A randomized controlled trial was conducted with 42 fibromyalgia patients. Participants were randomly assigned to Group A (dry needling with SSRIs) or Group B (trigger point injections). Pain, depression, and fibromyalgia impact were assessed using the Visual Analog Scale…

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