Status:

COMPLETED

Fibromyalgia and Naltrexone: The FINAL Study

Lead Sponsor:

Odense University Hospital

Collaborating Sponsors:

University of Southern Denmark

University Hospital Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg

Conditions:

Fibromyalgia

Eligibility:

FEMALE

18-64 years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

This study evaluates the effect of low dose naltrexone (LDN) on pain in women with fibromyalgia (FM). The study is designed as a parallel randomized (1:1) double blind, placebo-controlled superiority ...

Detailed Description

Low dose naltrexone (LDN) is used widely as off label treatment in patients with fibromyalgia, despite the lack of larger randomized controlled trials (RCT) supporting an effect. LDN has antagonistic...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Women aged 18-64 years
  • Understands and writes Danish
  • Fulfills the American College of Rheumatology 1990 criteria for fibromyalgia
  • A minimum score of 4 in self-reported average pain during the last 7 days on a 0-10 numeric rating scale at baseline
  • All fertile women have to use safe anti conception (Spiral, birth control pills, contraceptive patch, contraceptive vaginal ring or gestagen injections) for 3 weeks before and 1 week after the trial. If the patients' normal lifestyle includes sexual abstinence, they do not have to use anti conception. Instead they can give an oral informed consent, that they will be sexually abstinent during the trial. A woman is considered non-fertile if she is sterilized, hysterectomized, bilateral oophorectomized or is postmenopausal. A woman is considered postmenopausal when vaginal bleeding has been absent for 1 year and is confirmed by measurement of follicle-stimulating hormone.

Exclusion

  • Known allergy against naltrexonehydroclorid
  • Pregnancy or breastfeeding. A negative pregnancy test has to be available for all fertile subjects at baseline
  • Use of opioids or NSAIDs during the 4 weeks before inclusion in the trial
  • Abuse of alcohol or other substances
  • Inflammatory rheumatic diseases
  • Demyelinating diseases
  • Active cancer
  • Liver dysfunction
  • Kidney dysfunction
  • Psychotic diseases
  • History of suicide attempts
  • Suicide ideation - evaluated using Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (Item 9 has to be answered "never")

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 6 2021

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 27 2022

Estimated Enrollment :

99 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04270877

Start Date

January 6 2021

End Date

December 27 2022

Last Update

December 29 2022

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Pain centre, Odense University Hospital

Odense, Denmark, 5000