fibromyalgia

[bono1132]

My wife, after years of being told she had a bad spine and painful injections several times a year, was recently diagnosed with fibromyalgia. She tried lyrica but the sides were too bad and they don't have anything else that will work for her as far as prescriptions go. I stocked up on orange triad and oximega fish oil to help, also on 100 mg magnesium tablets, we altered our diet a bit and got her higher on protein and trying to get her in the gym more but the lyrica messed her up a couple weeks. I know there's a lot of well educated peeps on here just curious what else I should get her on, and anyone else dealing with it what kinds of foods and supps you like. Thanks for any help!

[Spaniard]

RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Meditative movement therapies (qi gong, tai chi, yoga) are strongly recommended. Acupuncture can be considered. Mindfulness-based stress reduction as monotherapy and dance therapy as monotherapy are not recommended. Homeopathy is not recommended. In a minority vote, homeopathy was rated as "can be considered". Nutritional supplements and reiki are not recommended. The English full-text version of this article is available at SpringerLink under "Supplemental"

PMID

 22760464 [PubMed - in process]Full text: Springer

- Valdez
I'll be back there's more including one on coq10.

[Spaniard]

Magnesium was one of the supplements most recommended specifically...

I can link if you'd like that is the highlight.

- Valdez

I'm not offering medical advice this is research specific

[bono1132]

Awesome info! With no real meds to help with symptoms I've never delt with anything like this before so anything is worth trying. I def understand the yoga and ti chi aspect as her stress levels are pretty much through the roof. Thank you!

[Spaniard]

"Vegetarian diets could have some beneficial effects probably due to the increase in antioxidant intake. There is a high prevalence of obesity and overweight in patients, and weight control seems to be an effective tool to improve the symptoms. Some nutritional deficiencies have been described, it is not clear whether they are directly related to this disease or not."

I personally don't think a total vegan diet is the way to go but that is my personal opinion. Looking into juicing for extra micros may be helpful.

Easy antioxidant is green tea and the health benefits are vast.

- Valdez

[bono1132]

Magnesium was one of the supplements most recommended specifically...

I can link if you'd like that is the highlight.

- Valdez

I'm not offering medical advice this is research specific

As far as the magnesium goes I know its the most recommended I'm just not sure how much she should be on

[bono1132]

Vegetarian diets could have some beneficial effects probably due to the increase in antioxidant intake. There is a high prevalence of obesity and overweight in patients, and weight control seems to be an effective tool to improve the symptoms. Some nutritional deficiencies have been described, it is not clear whether they are directly related to this disease or not.*

Easy antioxidant is green tea and the health benefits are vast.

- Valdez

Will def give that a shot too. She was doing great for a while this year and has kept off ten pounds since the beginning of the year but hasnt made progress because she was always in so much pain. Awesome infos man, thank you

[Spaniard]

RESULTS: CoQ(10) were reduced in both cell models. Oral supplementation showed an improvement in clinical symptoms and restored levels.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with FM showed an important dysfunction in CoQ(10) levels and might benefit from oral supplementation.Crown Copyright © 2012. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

PMID

 22342824 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Full text: Elsevier Science

- Valdez

[Spaniard]

As far as the magnesium goes I know its the most recommended I'm just not sure how much she should be on

Magnesium supplementation is tricky. You don't want magnesium levels too high. There wasn't a dose in the study I don't think... Hold on

- Valdez

[Spaniard]

"CONCLUSIONS: Several types of alternative medicine have some potential for future clinical research. However, due to methodological inconsistencies across studies and the small body of evidence, no firm conclusions can be made at this time. Regarding alternative treatments, acupuncture and several types of meditative practice show the most promise for future scientific investigation. Likewise, magnesium, l-carnitine, and S-adenosylmethionine are nonpharmacological supplements with the most potential for further research. Individualized treatment plans that involve several pharmacological agents and natural remedies appear promising as well."

PMID

 20192908 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Full text: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

- Valdez

[bono1132]

I saw something recomending around the 300 mg range so between the partial doasage of OT and the magnesium supplement and her diet she should be good! Looked up a bit about the CoQ10 and will def pick some up tomorow and hopefully once the effects from the lyrica wear off she's really excited to give yoga a shot at our gym!

[Spaniard]

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the intracellular levels of the high energy adenosine triphosphate nucleotide ATP and essential divalent cations, calcium and magnesium, in platelets of patients affected by primary fibromyalgia syndrome (FMs).DESIGN AND METHOD: Platelet ATP and cation concentrations were measured in 25 patients affected by FMs and 25 healthy volunteers through a chemiluminescent and a fluorimetric assay, respectively.

RESULTS: Significant lower ATP levels were observed inside platelets of FM patients (fmol ATP/plt: 0.0169+/-0.0012 vs. healthy controls, fmol ATP/plt: 0.0306+/-0.0023, mean+/-SEM) (*** P<0.0001). A trend towards higher calcium concentrations (P=0.06) together with significant increased magnesium levels were also reported in platelets of patients by comparison with controls (P=0.02).

CONCLUSIONS: This preliminary study suggests that disturbances in the homeostasis of platelet ATP metabolism-signaling and calcium-magnesium flows might have a relevance in the pathogenesis of FMs.

PMID

 18634773 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Full text: Elsevier SciencePrevious

This study is extremely interesting to me. I have a video that you should watch with your wife, its about a Dr with MS that ate a paleo diet, took creatine and fish oils and basically cured herself.

Creatine is being studied for a ton of different diseases etc... It too is an amazing supplement with benefits outside of training environments.

- Valdez

[bono1132]

Wow! Reading that just blew my head for a sec

[Spaniard]

Follow this link to the thread and you'll find the video

http://anabolicminds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=194200

Good luck buddy

- Valdez

[Spaniard]

Minding your mitochondria

- Valdez

[bono1132]

When she was able to work out I always had her on creatine bcaas and c4 for a pre workout, along with lean protein shakes and creatine for recovery. Now I've got her on orange oximega and while we have not been eating a paleo diet most of our meals generally consist of eggs chicken steak or fish mostly grilled, now she's looking at paleo diet info and I've got a list for some more sups for tomorrow and get her back on the creatine!

[bono1132]

We watched the video! That's some powerful stuff! Def going go be very active helping her deal with this now that I have some info... Cus let's face it she doesn't remember fish oil and multis unless I put them in her pill cases

[bioman]

Ecklonia based supplements seem to help some people as well.

[Spaniard]

We watched the video! That's some powerful stuff! Def going go be very active helping her deal with this now that I have some info... Cus let's face it she doesn't remember fish oil and multis unless I put them in her pill cases

You sound like a good guy. Very supportive . If adding supplements in her case I'd stick with plain old creatine instead of c4 or anything fancy. SNS Magnesium creatine chelate would be another option and you could kill two birds with one stone. We have Monohydrate as well

Good luck again!

- Valdez

[bono1132]

Luckily I had some mcc already! It's been years of dealing with the back issues and were only 27. I've been into lifting for a while and its very frustrating for her to be constantly set back because of what we thought was a deteriorating spine and very frustrating to find out that the doctors that have run an insane amount of tests, treatments, pt, and one doctor who told her she was just overweight and needed to just lose weight, never ****ing thought of this. It sucks that its something that will never really go away but at least we know what it is now and can do something about it! I was thinking of getting reduce xt to try for weight loss and cortisol control