Benefits of Tanning in Fibromyalgia Patients
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Conditions studied: Fibromyalgia Syndrome
In brief
* To establish whether ultraviolet light exposure acutely reduces perceptions of pain in patients with fibromyalgia. * To establish whether a series of UV light exposures has a cumulative effect on fibromyalgia pain.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00447083
- Run by
- Wake Forest University
- People needed
- 19
- Starts
- 2005-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2008-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-11-13
Who can join
Age: 25 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Fibromyalgia patients who meet the fibromyalgia criteria, and who have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia by a board certified rheumatologist. The fibromyalgia criteria {as defined by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR)} require the patient to have: at least 3 months of widespread pain defined as: bilateral; above and below the waist, including axial skeletal pain; and pain to palpation with 4kg of pressure at a minimum of 11 out of 18 predefined tender points.
- Ideally, patients should not be taking medication for treatment of fibromyalgia, and they should not be taking psychoactive medications on an as needed basis for treatment of fibromyalgia. However, if patients are taking psychoactive or other medications for the treatment of fibromyalgia, then they should be on a stable dose, defined as no change in dosage in the 4 weeks prior to study enrollment.
- Patients must agree to not partake in tanning bed UV exposure during the study.
You may not qualify if…
- Fitzpatrick skin type 1 ("never tan, always burn")
- Past or present skin cancer
- Current use of photosensitizing drugs (current use of photosensitizing drugs will be evaluated via a patient questionnaire at time of patient enrollment - see Appendix 1),, psychoactive medications (not a stable dose, defined as no change in dosage in the 4 weeks prior to study enrollment), or illicit drugs
- Pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or breast feeding
- Significant visual discrimination of UV versus non-UV conditions
- Greater than 6 indoor tanning sessions over the past year
- Concurrent photosensitive disease, positive antinuclear antibody test, positive anti-Smith antibody test, or positive anti-dsDNA test.
Where it is running
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
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