Doctor Silverman is the Medical Director of the Fibromyalgia Rehabilitation Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Clinical Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology at the UCLA School of Medicine. This is the edited chat transcripts of the hour chat session. Nobody expects complete relief or la la land. My starting point for pain is a multidisciplinary approach which teaches self management. The treatment of FM is the same whether or not the FM is associated with trauma.
Ok lets go on with the treatment please.
LS oxycontin helps me with severe pain and fatigue. What would you suggest. I prefer that we consider other analgesics first and consider adjuvant analgesics such as neurontin. If everyone doesn't mind, we'd like to post it now. My name is Wendy Nesin.