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Increasing evidence implicates central oxidative stress, maladaptive synaptic plasticity, and neuroinflammatory alterations in its pathophysiology. This study investigated the therapeutic effects of molecular hydrogen (H2) in a reserpine-induced murine model of fibromyalgia, with emphasis on sex-dependent and region-specific mechanisms. Male and female C57BL\/6 mice received repeated reserpine injections to induce fibromyalgia-like symptoms. Mechanical allodynia, thermal hyperalgesia, cold allodynia, and depressive-like behaviors were assessed, followed by molecular analyses in the spinal cord and amygdala. Reserpine induced persistent nociceptive hypersensitivity and depressive-like behaviors in both sexes, with earlier cold allodynia in females. Hydrogen-rich water (HRW) progressively reversed mechanical and thermal hypersensitivity and rapidly abolished cold allodynia, showing greater efficacy in females. HRW also normalized depressive-like behaviors in both sexes. At the molecular level, HRW reduced spinal oxidative stress and ERK-dependent plasticity without altering spinal NLRP3 expression, whereas it fully reversed NLRP3 upregulation and HO-1 downregulation in the amygdala. HRW additionally engaged sex-dependent antioxidant pathways in the spinal cord. 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