sleep and fibromyalgia

Disordered sleep is such a prominent symptom in fibromyalgia symptoms such as waking unrefreshed, fatigue, tiredness, and insomnia and the worst is all your joints getting so stiff you can’t move but you have to or it hurts so bad you try to sleep through but you can’t you can’t open your eyes or you’ll be awake all night . Several studies of normal sleepers, disrupting deep sleep nightly for 7 to 14 days with either noise or awakenings resulted in symptoms indistinguishable from patients with fibromyalgia. When someone with fibromyalgia gets stressed from no sleep its starts so many other problems, I cant function properly,I get a flair and so on .

Sodium oxybate (Xyrem) is a drug used in narcolepsy that works in part by increasing deep sleep. patients with fibromyalgia ask if it is available to them. In 2010 the FDA rejected its use for fibromyalgia as being too risky. It is chemically very similar to the date rape drug GHB and they felt that the risks of wide dissemination outweighed the benefits. Whether it is insomnia, restless legs syndrome, or sleep apnea, I can say that treating the associated sleep disturbance has a very positive effect on their fibromyalgia I see an improvement in fatigue, cognitive function, and pain when the sleep disorder is addressed.