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I find that a little cannabis helps a great deal. It improves my mood and appetite. It does help with the pain when taken in high enough doses, but that tends to make me veg out in front of cartoons eating doritos.

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I too have tried it and it does seem to help calm my moods when i get too uptight. and like bruxom it's the only time that i seem to get any relief from the restless legs that i suffer from.

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I have found that a little of this just before bed and i finally get a decent nights sleep. Although it doesn't seem to help with my pain it does let me relax for a change. it seems to be more helpful than the muscle relaxers they have me on.

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I want and need pain relief BADLY. I take Ultram, neurontin, klonopin, robaxin and other meds and am still in SEVERE pain. I cannot find anyone in my area to get cannibus from. Can anyone offer any help?

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I'm a hairstylist and the work is extemely hard on me. I've been in pain all of my life and thought it was normal. I got diagnosed with a rare disease called systemic mastocytosis three years ago. I was told that that disease wouldn't cause the pain I'm having. So now they think it's fibromyalgia as well. I have been on a lot of meds to try to conquer the pain and have little energy. I'm 35 and been raising my two sons for years on my own. Recently my older son went to college. My parents are sick. My brother has HIV so we're all moving in together to help out each other financially and emotionally. I've given up. I'm tired of having to support my household on my own. I hate losing my independence, but there comes a time when something has to give. I've had to file bankruptcy because I just can't work all of the time and I have to pay so much for drugs and doctors even though I have insurance. So I'm letting everything go in hopes of relieving stress and helping my pain and emotional pain. As far as cannabis If I have a hard day at work (sometimes I have to work 10 hours straight standing and doing hair) I come home and smoke some. It does help the pain tremendously. In fact, it helps better than morphine. I just become a bump on the couch though. I can't smoke it and work. It does help me relax and sleep well. I don't know what I'd do without it. It's the best pain reliever I've tried. You do have to get pretty blitzed for it to work. I do about twice a week before I go to bed.

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Hi, I have tried cannabis, but the only thing that I found that has worked is Magnesium tablets that can be bought over the counter at drug stores or chemists

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I think I was self medicating even before I knew I had fm. About 2yrs ago I withdrew from a lot of daily activity due to the pain that no one believed I really had. I found when I got home at night and smoke a little, usually a couple of hits from a one-hitter, the pain was not as magnified and I could fall asleep. I finally went to the doc & got my diagnosis when I began to wake up and not be able to go back to sleep and the pain became unbearable during the day. And since my doc won't prescribe pain meds even though otc's don't work, I continue with the routine I established for myself. But I never smoke and go to work or run errands.

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David.. A good source of info on medical use of cannabis is Americans for Safe Access (ASA) http://www.safeaccessnow.org/punbb/ . Check out their forum particularly under the topics of chronic pain and movement disorders. Please return to this forum to share the results with other FM patients on anything you find.
As you know there are many strains of marijuana and each have different medical efficacy, so speaking with other patients who have used medical cannabis might be helpful. ASA also has condition specific booklets on medical cannabis that patients can download and share with their physicians.

The patients I have spoken to consistently comment that cannabis greatly improves sleep and enables one to feel refreshed upon waking.

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