Research May Explain Why Common Drugs Don’t Ease Pain From Fibromyalgia

People who have the common chronic pain condition fibromyalgia often report that they don’t respond to the types of medication that relieve other people’s pain. New research from the University of Michigan Health System helps to explain why that might be: Patients with fibromyalgia were found to have reduced binding ability of a type of receptor in the brain that is the target of opioid painkiller drugs such as morphine. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Pain / Anesthetics on October 5th, 2007