To get into the clinical trial, I had to go through the whole fibromyalgia diagnosis procedure again: they apply 10 pounds of pressure (pressing till your thumbnail turns white) on 18 different points. I had severe pain in all of them. Then they have a little device called a dolorimeter that measures exactly how much pressure it takes to invoke pain. On some points, I couldn't take more than 1.5 pounds (remember, it takes 10 pounds to make the diagnosis, so I'm way more sensitive than required).
Everyone in the study will be on placebo at some point. This is apparently my week. Either that, or this stuff is a complete flop as a sleeping pill. I'm still wide awake in the middle of the night. We'll find out Monday if the second package of pills works better.
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Hi. My name is Ava. I'm 44 and have Chronic fatigue, Fibromyalgia. and a few other conditions which make the other two even worse. In regards to you being more sensitive then required I am sure that is true. The reason I say this is because I saw mt medical records and under diagnosis it listed the CFS and FMS and others and it also said Chronic Pain Syndrome. I asked my doctor what that was. He explain that many people with chronic pain problems develop this condition. Chronic Pain Syndrom involves a malfunction in the section of your brain that interprets pain. It interprets pain at a more intense level. So what may feel like a tap to someone else would feel like a punch to someone with Chronic Pain Syndrom. From avatami@aol.com
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