Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain
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To examine the real-world role of tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) in fibromyalgia (FM) treatment. ⋯ Research covering 1999 to 2005 using the same methods found that 15.9% of patients with FM used TCAs during the year before FM diagnosis and 20.7% used TCAs during the year after. These findings suggest that TCA use among the patients with FM is uncommon and may be declining in real-world practice.