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There is a standard treatment for fibromyalgia and it includes use of a tricycyclic antidepressant (TCA) like Elavil and aerobic exercise.
Many diseases don't have cures but only treatments. These range from common diseases like hypertension to inflammatory bowel disorders like Crohn's disease. One difficulty in fibromyalgia is that the pain and tenderness can't be seen and is thus hard to measure. We can see things that we think would hurt by visual inspection or xray, but if we can't see a cause we have difficulty acknowledging its existence.
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