The Trials of Fibromyalgia

While surfing the net, I found a site that listed current clinical trials for those that suffer from Fibromyalgia. You can take a more active part in your own healthcare by participating in clinical trials. By participating in a clinical trial, you may be able to receive a form of treatment not yet available to the public. The results from these trials may advance medical research helping others as well as yourself. These trials can often help answer questions encompassing Fibromyalgia.

Clinical Trials are available in various states and countries. The following link will allow you to view open trials by category. Each category lists the areas in which the specific trials are available.

Trials available are:

·        Alternative Therapies 

·        Biofeedback and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

·        Fatigue

·        Devices

·        Juvenile Fibromyalgia (FM in children)

·        Medications

·        Non-pharmacological Treatments

·        Sleep

·        Other

·        International Trials

To access the link, please click below

http://www.fmaware.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_clinicalTrials

Trials and tribulations befall us all, so why not undergo a trial that may benefit you or another person suffering from Fibromyalgia? A clinical trial may not be for you, then again, it may be just what you needed and you never knew it. I look back on a clinical trial for Lyrica that was done at the local University Hospital a few years back. I would have found relief from the majority of my pain a year sooner. I think I will check into a trial. Couldn’t hurt…well it might, but then again, progress is never painless. 

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get!