>> At 07:34 AM 7/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >An acquaintance of mine has been diagnosed with fibromyalgia.  Does anyone
> >have nutritional/dietary info that would help her?
>
Muriel wrote:
>         another thing that is important is getting enough sleep.  Most of these
> women do not sleep well and they do not stretch when they wake up.  I
> always take 400 mg. of magnesium before bed to stop my brain from working
> too hard.  She might want to try low dose (1 mg) melatonin.
>

Low level pain also decreases the quality of sleep for fibromyalgia
patients (I still have some problems with this, even though I've been
gluten-free since last December.)  Going dairy-free helped
considerably, so I agree that both these components are important. I
have also just started using 5-HTP (the new serotonin precursor) and
it seems to help me more than melatonin.  When my symptoms were more
severe, taking magnesium did help with muscle pain.


Molly Ni/Da/na
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