It wasn’t always the case, but today, sleep problems are recognized as central characteristics of fibromyalgia. The presence of disrupted sleep and insomnia, as well as lack of restorative sleep and ...

A study from Norway found the more often women experienced sleep problems, the more likely they were to develop fibromyalgia 10 years later, according to a CNN report. The study began in the mid-1980s ...

Patients with fibromyalgia who used cannabis-based medicinal products demonstrated modest, medium-term improvements in pain, anxiety and sleep, according to data published in Clinical Rheumatology.“It ...

“Sleep is important to restore the body, but also to clear waste in the brain,” says Brian Koo, MD, a neurologist and assistant professor of neurology at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, ...

Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic pain from no clear source. Patients with fibromyalgia frequently have sleep problems: Their deep sleep brain wave patterns are often disrupted by brain waves ...

Pharmacotherapy should not be a first-line approach to sleep disturbances in fibromyalgia. Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) may be the most effective treatment for improving sleep ...

Tonmya (cyclobenzaprine) is a medicine for fibromyalgia in adults that works differently from other options. It was approved by the FDA in 2025 and comes as a tablet that you put under the tongue once ...

If you or a loved one has fibromyalgia, you may be considering treatment options. One medication you might hear about is Savella (milnacipran). Fibromyalgia is a long-lasting condition that most ...

For years, Shatha lived with pain she could not prove — only explain. Fatigue, shifting aches and sleep that never felt ...