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Do you use naltrexone in your patients with fibromyalgia?

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Rheumatology · Feinberg School of Medicine

I do not use low-dose naltrexone as a first-line agent for patients with fibromyalgia. Well-designed RCTs (Due Bruun et al., PMID 38258677; Bested et al., PMID 38226027) have not shown significant improvements in pain or other outcomes in the overall population of patients with fibromyalgia. That sa...

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Rheumatology · The University of Michigan

Anecdotally, I've found LDN helpful in patients with FM who also have prominent dysautonomia symptoms -- as the usual agents [cyclobenzaprine, gabapentin, pregabalin, milnacipran, etc] can often exacerbate their dysautonomia symptoms.

I have also used with patients with FM who may have addictive beh...

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