Research out of the University of Michigan Health System is shedding new light on why people with the chronic pain condition fibromyalgia report that they do not respond to the types of medication that often relieves other people. U-M researchers say that may be because 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. The study included PET - positron emission tomography - scans of the brains of patients with fibromyalgia and a control group of people without the often-debilitating condition.
You're not crazy. There IS a reason you're in pain.
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