I could look around for references - but my friend had decided to start taking taurine after reading a scientific paper saying that it boosted circulation in smokers. I know his muscles had a tendancy to lock/tighten up, if he didn't exercise often to keep them flexible. So while exercise was painful, it was less painful than the alternative - because he was prone to tearing muscles without it. He did have crohn's disease as well, and pretty tightly regulated his diet to stuff that didn't make the crohn's flare up. They did eventually diagnose him with lymphoma, and after treatment for that the fibromyalgia symptoms eased up a bit.

The problem with fibromyalgia is that it's sort of this hodgepodge of symptoms that doctors are throwing together as one disease - and I think that probably it's several diseases that they don't really understand that they're lumping together. So I couldn't really say what helped his fibro is necessarily going to help your fibro, and it's been a while since I've looked into it.

So definitely take any info that you find on the internet with a grain of salt, I wouldn't buy anyone whose trying to sell magic make you better fibro pills, but if specific supplements make sense to you and working for you after taking them - add them. His supplements tended to be ones that boosted circulation. He didn't take sleeping pills or muscle relaxants like a lot of fibro patients do.

There is a supplement that's supposed to be a natural muscle relaxant that helped with the pain - valerian. You can get it as a pill or a tea. My sister is a teeth grinder, and she says that drinking a cup of the tea nightly seems to stop her from clenching her teeth & grinding it.

Good luck with your appointments. Feel free to disregard anything I said that seems nutty.