title: Drug treatment for fibromyalgia.
abstract: The term 'fibromyalgia' probably covers a variety of diagnoses for which we have no formal diagnostic tests. Nevertheless, it remains a cause of discomfort and disability, often amenable to non-drug treatment that should always be tried first. This article reviews the different drug treatments available that are of interest to the rheumatology community because the drugs that often procure pain relief are not always the same as those that are conventionally used for degenerative or inflammatory polyarthritis. This, in turn, may provide a clue to causation.
authors.affiliation: University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. Howard.Bird@leedsth.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Howard A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Bird