"Fibromyalgia" - Die Laughing at the Psychiatric Nutcases

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Subject: Die Laughing at the Psychiatric Nutcases

Date: Nov 28, 2007 7:12 PM

Compare the title of the report, and the nonsense in between, to the
final conclusion:


**** The pain treatment effect of pregabalin did not depend on
baseline anxiety
or depressive symptoms, suggesting pregabalin improves pain in
patients with or
without these symptoms. ****




: Pain Med. 2007 Nov;8(8):633-638.Click here to read Links

The Effect of Anxiety and Depression on Improvements in Pain in a
Randomized,
Controlled Trial of Pregabalin for Treatment of Fibromyalgia.

Arnold LM, Crofford LJ, Martin SA, Young JP, Sharma U.

Women's Health Research Program, Department of Psychiatry,
University of Cincinnati
College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Objective. To assess symptoms of anxiety and depression in a large
cohort of
fibromyalgia patients and to determine the impact of these symptoms on
response
of pain to pregabalin treatment. Design. Patients completed the
Hospital Anxiety
and Depression Scale at the baseline visit in a randomized, controlled
trial of
pregabalin for treatment of fibromyalgia. Mean anxiety and depression
subscale scores
were calculated, and proportions of patients by symptom severity were
determined.
The difference between the proportion of patients reporting anxiety
and depression
at baseline was tested using McNemar's test. Baseline anxiety and
depression
were evaluated as covariates by including them-as interaction terms
with treatment-in
an ancova model. A path analysis evaluated the association between
improvements
in anxiety and depression and pain relief. Results. In total, 529
patients were
enrolled. Significantly more patients reported anxiety symptoms (71%)
than depressive
symptoms (56%) (P < 0.0001). Improvement in pain symptoms with
pregabalin compared
with placebo did not depend linearly on baseline anxiety or depression
scores. By
path analysis, 75% of the pain reduction was not explained by
improvements in anxiety
and depressive symptoms. Conclusions. Anxiety symptoms were more
common than depressive
symptoms in this cohort. Our results suggest patients with
fibromyalgia should be
routinely assessed for the presence of both anxiety and depression.
The pain treatment
effect of pregabalin did not depend on baseline anxiety or depressive
symptoms,
suggesting pregabalin improves pain in patients with or without these
symptoms.
Much of the pain reduction appears to be independent of improvements
in anxiety
or mood symptoms. PMID: 18028041 [PubMed - as supplied by
publisher]



LMAO. For all of their psychiatric bullshit, they proved that the
pain of Fibromyalgia
is real since it is relieved by the meds, and is INDEPENDENT of their
bullshit "anxiety
and depression" signs - "the anxiety and depression" are likelier
due to the fact that these psychiatric nutcases don't believe that the
pain
is real.

These psychiatrists are so stupid they don't even know when they're
revealing
their stupidity - which they do every time they open their mouths.


Kathleen M. Dickson
ActionLyme.org