The latest drug to treat fibromyalgia is an
anti-epileptic drug which reduces the release of glutamate. See the
following link:
http://www.emea.eu.int/humandocs/PDFs/EPAR/lyrica/084504en6.pdf
Fibromyalgia patients may be helped by avoiding food additives containing excitatory
neurotransmitters like MSG and aspartame:
http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm/id/3061
See also our page on Multiple Sclerosis with links to
more articles.
See also our page on Epilepsy.
As of this writing (August 7, 2006), a study of 18
patients with depression was conducted using ketamine - a glutamate blocker
that targets the NMDA receptors. This treatment helped over 70% of
those patients within one day of treatment - giving hope to many
patients and physicians that depression sufferers need no longer wait
several weeks for conventional anti-depressants that work on dopamine and
seratonin.
http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/63/8/856
Ketamine is usually used as a form of anesthesia
for both humans and animals. If this glutamate blocker stops pain so
well - is it a leap to imagine that MSG, (which raises blood levels of free
glutamate and stimulates the NMDA receptors that Ketamine blocks) may
actually cause the pain on fibromyalgia?