Many fibromyalgic patients have sleep disorders. Researchers found that when subjects attempted to enter deep sleep, higher-frequency alpha wave activity intruded, disrupting the normal and necessary periods of delta-wave sleep. Further, when subjects who did NOT have FMS spent several consecutive nights in a controlled sleep environment where noise was generated to disrupt delta-wave sleep, the individuals developed symptoms of FMS. This unrefreshing sleep could be caused by abnormalities in growth hormone. About 30% of fibromyalgic patients have low levels of insulin-like growth factor, another indicator of reduced growth hormone secretion.
Growth hormone is been studied to treat FMS but needs very expensive IM injections.
PREGNANCY and FIBROMYALGIA
Dr. Kurland Norbert If you have fibromyalgia and are contemplating pregnancy, it’s natural to wonder what impact your illness will have on your ability to