You know the fibro study medication that they are advertising on this web site, it is xyrem! They are trying to see if it will work for Fibro. I am on the study medication and it has definitely changed my life. I am not well but man it really is worth it. If I were you I would give it a try. I don't know about it taking many months to help you. It helped me the very first day. (there was quite a bit of nausea that day but that was fine because of the relief from pain.) Because it is a study they won't let me take anything else (except for a small amount of Tylenol) I still think it is worth it. I still hurt some but I went from hurting 7 out of 7 days to only 2 out of 7 days. I wrote a long description of my experience on this forum.

sorry to be sticking my nose in here (I don't forum around much anymore) but I think your dr. is wrong to make a general statement about having to choose between opioids & Xyrem.

I take a ton of Opioids (methadone, oxycodone) & have just been approved for Xyrem use.

According to the Pharmacist at Jazz (Zyrem mfgrs) who spent an hour on the phone with me reviewing my meds & my own neurologist the only issue about using opioids & Xyrem together is that I need to take my last methadone dose 3-4 hours before I take the first Xyrem dose &, because I have a sleep apena as well, I will need to use a CPAP machine to deal with the apenea as all three(opioids, xyrem, apenea) depress respiration.

Per the Mfgr I can take all of the following as well as the Xyrem

methadone

oxycodone

xanax

Welbutrien (buproprian)

provided that I that the last dosage 3-4 BEFORE I take the first Xyrem dosage