It wasn’t always the case, but today, sleep problems are recognized as central characteristics of fibromyalgia. The presence of disrupted sleep and insomnia, as well as lack of restorative sleep and ...

—These findings challenge the traditional view of fibromyalgia as primarily a pain disorder and reframes it as a condition in which sleep and psychological resilience are key determinants of ...

“Sleep is important to restore the body, but also to clear waste in the brain,” says Brian Koo, MD, a neurologist and assistant professor of neurology at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, ...

A study from Norway found the more often women experienced sleep problems, the more likely they were to develop fibromyalgia 10 years later, according to a CNN report. The study began in the mid-1980s ...

Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic pain from no clear source. Patients with fibromyalgia frequently have sleep problems: Their deep sleep brain wave patterns are often disrupted by brain waves ...

Pharmacotherapy should not be a first-line approach to sleep disturbances in fibromyalgia. Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) may be the most effective treatment for improving sleep ...

Patients with fibromyalgia who used cannabis-based medicinal products demonstrated modest, medium-term improvements in pain, anxiety and sleep, according to data published in Clinical Rheumatology.“It ...

Tonmya (cyclobenzaprine) is a medicine for fibromyalgia in adults that works differently from other options. It was approved by the FDA in 2025 and comes as a tablet that you put under the tongue once ...

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that causes pain throughout the body, as well as fatigue. Research suggests that fibromyalgia happens when the body's central and peripheral nervous systems don't ...

For years, Shatha lived with pain she could not prove — only explain. Fatigue, shifting aches and sleep that never felt ...