Sandie
I have had fibromyalgia for 15 yrs. I am a nurse, but that doesn't help, with this disease. I hope you are coping ok. I have good days and bad. Elavil for raising pain threshold and helping sleep seems to be the best answer the experts have. If you are on elavil, but not having much luck with it, have your Dr. do an 'amytriptilene' level. They can then tell you if you are getting enough. If you are a smoker, you need extra amounts of the drug. I have recently been put on 'paxil' also. It seems to make me not care that I hurt. (I'm on that for depression). Also, there is some new evidence that this may be a neurological disease 'chiari syndrome'. They are having some improvement, with surgery, to correct a spinal defect. I wish you the best.