Chronic pain conditions have frustrated doctors and patients alike for decades. Patients suffering from fibromyalgia have perplexed the medical community so intensely that many are written off as hypochondriacs and drug seekers, leaving them frustrated and without relief. It has long been assumed that there is some genetic component to fibromyalgia and a tendency toward chronic pain. Research has recently uncovered some candidates for this genetic connection, and today we will focus on one of these: COMT. COMT is Catechol-o-methyltransferase, the enzyme responsible for regulation of availabil ..read more