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Safety and Tolerability Study Comparing Sodium Oxybate Given as an Oral Solution to a Single-Blinded Combination of Oral Tablets Plus Oral Solution in Subjects With Fibromyalgia

Information source: Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on October 19, 2009
Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Condition(s) targeted: Fibromyalgia

Intervention: Sodium Oxybate (Drug); Sodium Oxybate & Tablet (Drug); Sodium Oxybate & Tablets (Drug); Sodium Oxybate Oral Solution (6 grams) (Drug)

Phase: Phase 3

Status: Not yet recruiting

Sponsored by: Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Official(s) and/or principal investigator(s):
Yanping Zheng, MD, Study Director, Affiliation: Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Summary

To compare the safety and tolerability of sodium oxybate given as a combination of an oral solution and oral tablets for 4 weeks in subjects with fibromyalgia (FM).

Clinical Details

Official title: Safety and Tolerability Study Comparing Sodium Oxybate Given as an Oral Solution to a Single-Blinded Combination of Oral Tablets Plus Oral Solution in Subjects With Fibromyalgia

Study design: Treatment, Randomized, Single Blind (Subject), Single Group Assignment, Safety Study

Primary outcome: Safety as assessed by adverse events

Secondary outcome: Tolerability assessed by adverse events

Eligibility

Minimum age: 18 Years. Maximum age: N/A. Gender(s): Both.

Criteria:

Inclusion Criteria:

- Subject is able to understand the written informed consent

- Subject is 18 years of age or older.

- Subject meets the ACR criteria for fibromyalgia

- Subject is willing to discontinue prohibited by the protocol

- Subject agrees to use only non-sedating over-the-counter (OTC)medication

- Subject is willing to abstain from the ingestion of alcohol for the duration of the

trial.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Subject has protocol prohibited medical & psychiatric conditions that would exclude

subject

- Subject has a current or past history of a substance use disorder including alcohol

abuse

- Subject has a clinically significant history of seizure disorder either past or

present

- Female subject who is pregnant, nursing or lactating.

- Subject is diagnosed with sleep apnea

- Subject is unable to discontinue protocol prohibited medications

- Subject is experiencing fatigue and/or drowsiness/sedation in association with intake

of allowed medications.

- Subject has taken any investigational drug within 5 half-lives of the investigational

drug prior to signing the informed consent form.

- Subject has an allergic reaction to GHB or sodium oxybate or any of its constituents

(e. g. malic acid).

- Subject is on a sodium-restricted diet.

- Subject has abnormal liver function test or other abnormal lab values

- Subject has an occupation that requires variable shift work or routine night shifts

or cannot routinely spend at least 6 hours per night in bed.

- Subject has any other problems that, in the investigator's opinion, would preclude

the subject's participation and completion of this trial or compromise reliable representation of subjective symptoms.

- Subject has been randomized into a previous Xyrem (sodium oxybate) clinical trial.

Locations and Contacts

Advanced Clinical Research Institute, Anaheim, California 92801, United States
Additional Information

Starting date: December 2008
Last updated: December 3, 2008

Page last updated: October 19, 2009

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