Many Days of Pain...My Arms Ache

I keep seeing those television ads about fibromyalgia and the new medicine that helps with the pain. The women all seem to be able to not only tolerate it well, but it works wonders for them.

The disturbing thing to me is, all of them are helped. We don't get to see the patients who take it and have terrible side effects. Or those ones, possiibly many, who are not helped, at all, by the medication.  One would need to be given the drug to find out the side effects. And to find out the truth of how many have worse symptomes or at the least, no help, you would need to have included in your script that very thin, written on both sides, in very tiny type, paper that is given to the physicians.

This paper usually includes the results of clinical trials, and the numbers of sufferers who took the medication as opposed to a placebo and which group was helped more. Of course, the drug group is always helped more than the placebo group.

If the placebo group is helped at all, maybe I could get some of the placebo to try. That way, no side effects. At least, none that are 'real' and not figments of my imagination. Because side effects are something that I seem to get from everything I take. I am overly sensiitive to chemicals. It's hard for my doctors to find things I can take and have good effects.

The past week, my arms have been aching to the point of my wishing I could take them off and lay them aside. And nothing stops it.

I also have a curuous 'symptom'. Certain portions of me, my body, put off tremendous amounts of heat. I'm feverish too, but this is localized heat. Others can feel it if they get close. They don't have to actually come in contact with my skin; the heat is there much like an electric heater is on. Does anyone else have this problem?

And has anyone taken that new medicine? Without giving details, unless you want to give details, would you be so kind as to let me know if it works or not. Side effects or not?