I've dealt with Fibromyalgia for about the past 4 years. I'm not a whiner, I am very exercise and nutrition conscious, I run on the local EMS squad and use very few narcotic pain meds, in fact when I relocated from west to east, I brought many pain meds with me, all of which have expired. For people who really do have Fibromyalgia and weren't given just the catch all diagnosis, I have found that a combination of swimming, flaxseed oil, pain meds, and muscle relaxants help. I have given up seeking help through the medical profession because I know there are so many seekers that first I have to prove I'm not at the doctor because I am one. So...what I know from taking Kaiser Permanente's 7 week nationally recognized pain management class is that you have to implement a multi-facted approach and you need to get your Mom up and moving. It hurts to get moving, but even more so to sit still. Even if it's just 1 block 2 times a day or a little moving in a pool. Too bad Ohio isn't set up to have affordable ways to get low-impact exercise