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What made you think you needed to see a doctor and be diagnosed with Fibromyalgia?

Yes, I was diagnosed in 2001.

In 1999, I suffered a back injury at work. Even though I followed my treating physician’s advice, including physical therapy and home exercises, the pain in my back just wouldn’t ease up.

Within a year, I had widespread pain that felt like I’d overtaxed my muscles. (To this day, the area of my injury is extremely sensitive to the touch, as if someone kicked me in the sacrum.) My physician referred me to a rheumatologist who confirmed the diagnosis of fibromyalgia…after nearly six months of medical testing to rule out other medical conditions. I had loads of blood tests, x-rays, MRIs, an EMG test of my muscle function, and a nerve conduction test.

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There isn’t one tried-and-true treatment for fibromyalgia, so I can only tell you what has helped me.

Move. Don’t be overly sedentary because your muscles will tighten and cramp. Stretch frequently.

Eat. And I mean real food. I eliminated all fast food and most processed food. Now, I buy ingredients, not food. This naturally reduced my weight by 30 pounds and ensured I was getting proper nutrition. (I don’t recommend supplements because they’re not regulated, so you have no idea what you’re getting.)

Hydrate. Make sure you’re drinking sufficient fluids throughout the day.

Think. Chronic pain irrevocably changes your life. There is a grieving process for the “you” you’ve lost, which must eventually lead you to acceptance. Once you’ve accepted this new life, you’re capable of finding new ways to do things that are physically demanding, like pacing your activities, getting help from family and friends, and the like. Sometimes, thinking is difficult; fibromyalgia includes cognitive “fog.” My solution is lists, alarms, and reminders.

Medicate. Fibromyalgia pain can be difficult to treat. It doesn’t stem from inflammation, infection, or injury. And it doesn’t begin in the peripheral nervous system but in the brain. For these reasons, NSAIDs and opioids are useless. Some people are helped by antidepressants, muscle relaxants, and/or anti-seizure drugs. Personally, I make cannabis edibles. (Yes, it’s legal where I live.) It’s the only medication I’ve found that treats the pain, muscle tension, and depression.

Also, if, like me, the fibromyalgia is disabling, don’t despair. You now have the priceless gift of time, and can do whatever you like with it. Even after nearly 20 years, I don’t get bored. I read voraciously, dabble in writing, watch movies, play computer games, answer questions on Quora, participate in forums, etc.

Yes, of course, there is suffering; chronic pain is unrelenting and demoralizing. But you absolutely can still have an enjoyable life, even though it’ll be different from the one you planned.

Lastly, be aware that fibromyalgia makes many people more susceptible to autoimmune diseases—I currently have three—so ensure you choose a rheumatologist who understands fibromyalgia AND considers you as part of your health care team.

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02/25/2022
What would you advise to someone who is young and has Fibromyalgia?

Bless your heart! I would say to you to get a notebook dedicated to writing down everything you eat and how you are feeling every day. Write down your pain levels and fatigue levels and how your food affects you. If any foods cause you to have abdominal pain eliminate them from your diet. Additionally, stop all sugar except in the form of fresh whole organic fruit.

This is because I believe that fibromyalgia is caused by a disorder of the gut biome. This means that you’ve taken so many antibiotics they have stripped the normal bacteria out of your intestinal tract and you now have abnormal bacteria in your gut. You can put them back in by eating probiotics. You can eat raw cheese in moderation, but not pasteurized.

The most available raw cheeses are imported Parmesan, Romano, and swiss cheeses. They should be marked made with unpasteurized milk. Raw cheeses have been fermented and will add good bacteria to your diet but pasteurized dairy products will add inflammation to your body. You should only eat grass-fed butter. Kerry Butter from Ireland is the best known.

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You can eat live fermented foods like Bubbies pickles, or Kombucha, or go to your local farmers market and see if anyone is selling live fermented pickles. You want the kind that is only pickled in salt and water, or in whey and has to be refrigerated. You don’t want pickles in vinegar. Other fermented foods are miso (if you can tolerate soy), which is fermented soy paste, and can be used to make yummy soups.

Put a spoonful in a small pot of boiling water, and add green onion, minced ginger, garlic, and a few cut-up veggies. You can also add cut-up firm tofu and or small pieces of meat. Cook until the veggies are barely tender, just a minute or two.

If you are thinking that this doesn’t sound like your normal fast-food diet, you would be right. It will be a new way of thinking for both you and your Mom, and a new way of shopping. You need to have as much organic food as possible, and as little pre-processed and fast food as possible. When you start removing junk from your diet your body will start to tell you when you’re feeding it the right things.

Your pain will decrease and your energy will increase. Say goodbye to chips and crackers and desserts except for fresh fruits. Say goodbye to pizza, hamburgers, and fries. Try eating homemade soups and stews and grilled fish with herbs on, and big salads and lots of veggies.

Make your own salad dressings using fresh garlic, olive oil, lemons, a little mustard, or some herbs. Mince, then mash the garlic with salt, add freshly ground pepper, the juice of 2 lemons, and twice the amount of oil to the lemon juice. stir in a little dijon mustard to taste. You won’t want bottled salad dressing after you’ve tried this!

Make bone broths with organic animal bones. Chicken, beef, and pork all make wonderful broths. Your goal should be to get as much gelatin in the broth as possible, so use the feet. Julia Child’s recipe is the best. The broth will heal your gut and you should eat some every day.

Master Recipe For Basic Stock Julia Child) Recipe – Genius Kitchen You can find chicken feet at farmer’s markets and Chinese grocery stores. And good news, you can eat chocolate, but just a little, and it needs to be at least 70%.

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OK, enough food! Exercise if you can. If you’re too tired or too much in pain, then don’t. One of the things people don’t ever understand is how tired you are and how much you hurt. You can’t explain. Don’t even try, unless you use the pain scale, which is a method doctors and nurses use to quantify pain. 1 is no pain and 10 is screaming out loud pain.

So figure out where you are between one and 10 and that will help you to track it. Write that in your notebook every day and show it to people when they tell you to stop being lazy. My rule of thumb is that I can work through it up to level 4.

Level 5 and above is too much pain to be working or exercising through, although I can do seated work at 5–6. If you must take pain medicine, use an NSAID, like Ibuprofen or Naproxen. Don’t take Tylenol. It’s very liver toxic and it’s a useless medicine. It doesn’t touch the pain.

Try not to take pain medicines, because they will ask how you are feeling, and what your diet is doing to you.

Get your doctor to do a nutrition test on you. It’s a blood test that checks your nutrition levels. It’s very common for people with fibromyalgia to be short on magnesium, potassium, and B vitamins, for example. It’s also common to have hypothyroid of one sort or another. You need to test both for T4 and T3, and if you’re low on any of these, then you need to take supplements for them.

Find stuff that’s quiet and constructive that you like to do. Get off your screens if you have any energy. Learn to knit. Paint or find other art projects to do. Make jewelry. Be productive and happy as much as you can. On good days, go to school and try and keep up.

This disease will not change who you are. You are still you, and you are important and lovable. Be good to yourself, and don’t beat yourself up over this, because it’s not your fault. It’s modern life, sad to say.

God bless you!

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02/25/2022
What are some ways to soothe bad fibromyalgia flare-ups before bed?

I always find it helpful to soak in a hot Epsom salt bath (the calm scent one or relax one), it helps the aching body as the water cools stay as long as you can handle it and then pat dry do not rinse.

There are periods when I’m cold and can’t warm up a hot bath or shower…. Then there are periods I’m hot and can’t cool down- yep as cold of a shower as I can stand.

I also put on calm music to relax me.

I do not like taking a lot of medication so I try not to take much at all but in the past a small 5 mg of Flexeril before bed when my muscles won’t stop spasming. I say in the past because it’s been over 4 months since I’ve taken one.

I have recently started a small dose of CBD oil at bedtime and have found great relief. The pain that is left is from my arthritis and that is soothed through a CBD cream, neither of the products has THC in it. Since I began taking it at bedtime, I’m asleep within 30 min and I sleep through the night, waking rested and ready to face the day. I have been able to sweep, mop, and vacuum my house in one day versus having to spread it out over 4 days…

My skin doesn’t hurt to touch anymore so my husband has been able to hug me and hold me more, which is a great thing. I feel greater than I have in years.

Make yourself a nightly routine and do it every night at the same time, oh and sometimes I drink hot tea before bed.

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02/25/2022
What makes your fibromyalgia the worst?

My case is not particularly bad compared to many, so I try hard to be grateful it isn’t worse. Fibromyalgia evolves with life, usually constantly piling on and adding to the list of symptoms.

Once in a great while, a problem might scale back or go into remission. I had bad migraines consistently approximately 3 days per week for 30 years, but those have since tapered off and now are only a few per year.

Cold weather has begun to set off daily & nightly strong leg and foot pains. It can be difficult to sleep through.

Most of my other fibro symptoms occur without any extra help from the weather. Fatigue is and always has been the worst symptom, it just never lets up(many years). Anxiety and depression are daily problems along with severe IBS and sensitive bladder with no special triggers needed.

These are bad enough that most of the leisure/fun things I once did are no longer realistic. I still work in an office and it takes just about everything I have.

Hyperalgesia consistently limits what things I can accomplish on any given day without really severe foot pain. It makes my plantar fasciitis into agony. Pushing myself causes immediate and lingering pain any time it involves being on my feet for an hour or more (sometimes it doesn’t even take half that long).

Some other less common symptoms I have to occur more randomly and there are no clear triggers.

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02/25/2022
Who tests for fibromyalgia?

Traditionally, rheumatologists do the testing to find fibromyalgia. That is because originally, nobody knew what fibromyalgia was and they assumed, as it was linked to pain in joints and muscles, that it should fall under the department of rheumatology.

So, in a lot of countries, they are still the ones that do the testing. The way you test to see if you have fibromyalgia is in two stages: the first one is the clinical diagnosis, which includes trigger points on your body, a review of all your symptoms, and sometimes a questionnaire to see how your fatigue and pain affects your daily life.

The second one is an “exclusion diagnosis”, which means that you have to be checked for every disease that presents similar symptoms (MS, Spondylitis, rheumatoid polyarthritis…). So, they will make you take MRIs, blood tests, sleep tests, and a bunch of other stuff that takes ages, just to be sure you don’t have of one those other diseases.

Once you’re “officially diagnosed” with fibromyalgia, you can stay at your rheumatologist, although most have a certain disdain for the disease, or you can seek someone who gives a shit. It can be a neurologist or a physiotherapist. In any case, once the diagnosis is official, you need someone asap that you can trust and feel is in your corner. This is vital. If the doctor you have in front of you is “fibro-skeptic”, run.

Also: there are now tests to objectively “see” fibromyalgia in a patient but they aren’t commonly used. However, if someone says “there is no way to biologically see if you have fibromyalgia”, it’s a lie. We can now see altered responses to pain stimuli in the brain on cat scans, or high levels of nerve capillaries in the hands through a biopsy.

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02/25/2022
Fibromyalgia is a Painful Condition that is very Real to the Suffering Patients

The pain of fibromyalgia is real and the patients need help. The most frustrating element for fibromyalgia patients is that some healthcare providers think it is a “fad disease” and that erodes the doctor-patient trust that is so essential in treating patients with painful conditions. I will highlight a few points about fibromyalgia in plain English without any medical terms so that patients and families with no medical background can understand it.

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1. Sad reality about fibromyalgia:

If you are suffering from fibromyalgia and you think your doctor does not seem to believe your pain is real, you are not paranoid. Yes, some doctors are very skeptical of fibromyalgia pain and think it is all in your head. Medical doctors are trained to believe in scientific facts and physical evidence.

If there is a disease that is not detectable by blood tests or MRI scans, the scientists in us tend to have a hard time accepting the reality. Before high-resolution MRIs were invented, many patients with Multiple Sclerosis were dismissed as having psychiatric issues.

When they could see spots in the brain images that could explain the unusual symptoms of patients with multiple sclerosis, they started to believe those patients. Similarly, there may be a day in the future when they can find some objective evidence to explain the pain but until then, you will be seeing some skeptical doctors.

2. Just because you can not see it does not mean it is not real:

Medical science is still primitive when you understand how complex a human body is. We can measure and see many different structural components of the human body and can analyze myriad of chemicals that run in our veins but we still do not completely understand how pain is generated.

There are many good theories of how pain originates but theories are just theories. It is a mistake to dismiss something as not being real when science can not completely explain it. You need to listen to the patient closely and with an open mind if you want to truly understand what is real and what is not.

Yes, there will always be some patients that fake pain to get pain medications but you can not dismiss a whole class of patients based on a few who abuse the system. When you listen closely, you can find out that the pain in fibromyalgia patients fits a certain pattern and they do have a pattern of point tenderness. The pain is real, the suffering is real. Ignoring that fact does not do justice to patients suffering from fibromyalgia.

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3. Role of blood tests and scans:

Many patients with fibromyalgia think that the diagnosis was made after they had several blood tests and scans in the hospital. In reality, blood tests and scans are typically done to explore any other possible explanation for the symptoms.

Sometimes patients with typical pain of fibromyalgia can have other problems that can be detected by these tests. When everything is normal, they get the diagnosis of fibromyalgia. This is how patients get the misconception that the diagnosis was made from the tests.

4. Most important treatment for fibromyalgia patients:

If you are a healthcare provider treating patients with fibromyalgia, the most important first step to successful treatment is to listen to the patient and acknowledge their pain and suffering. Just to know that they have a doctor willing to listen to them and work together to help relieve their suffering gives them the hope and strength they need to overcome this painful suffering.

Medications are important but trust is the major factor. With mutual trust, it becomes easier to work together to find the medication that works for that individual patient. It may take some time with trial and error but eventually, something will work as long as they have a common goal and mutual trust.

5. Things you as a patient can do to win over the skeptical doctor

Unfortunately, you may have to work with a skeptical doctor if your choice is limited. But they are not necessarily bad doctors. They are just concerned about prescribing pain medications to people that might get dependent on pain pills. They are hesitant to give medications to a disease that they can not see on x-rays. There are certain things you can do to win them over.

First, try to be as objective as you can about your pain. Do not say things like, “I hurt all over, I have been in pain all my life, nothing works for my pain.” That may be the reality but if you word your concerns more objectively, the scientist inside the doctor may be willing to recognize the pattern and be forced to do something about it. You can say, ” I have pain in my shoulders, equally on both sides.

The pain goes down to my back and my hips. It feels like sore muscle pain. My pain is fairly constant but gets better at times and gets worse at times. Ibuprofen only slightly takes the edge off, takes it down from a 9 to 8 but the relief only lasts for about 2 hours….” You get the idea. Be as specific about your pain as you can and try to talk quantitatively and factually than emotionally.

That will help overcome the stereotypical image of the fibromyalgia patient screaming “I hurt all over” in the minds of the doctors and make them want to help you.

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02/09/2022
Fibromyalgia Diagnosis, Leaves you Exhausted and Unable to Think

People with fibromyalgia often describe their symptoms as a flu-like infection that doesn’t go away. It leaves you exhausted and unable to think or find the right words (symptoms of fibro fog). Many people with Fibromyalgia are exhausted to the point of collapse. No amount of sleep is refreshing or restful, and often the muscle pain keeps the person from getting any sleep at all. Symptoms can be debilitating and often the patient feels as if they have to push themselves to the breaking point to just do the simplest things.

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•Constant pain throughout the body, often in the hands, feet, arms, legs, back, neck, and chest

The pain is unrelenting and is often described as burning, stabbing, radiating, tingling deep aching, or roaming. This pain does not ease with over-the-counter pain medication or other common remedies, and it is often more severe than what normal people feel. For example, if you pat someone gently on the back, it would not hurt them, but for someone with fibromyalgia, a simple hug or pat on the back can feel like being stabbed. The slightest touch is excruciating, for no other reason than the nerves are overly sensitive.

•Fatigue that no amount of sleep or caffeine/energy drinks resolves

The fatigue is not like the normal fatigue of a person who works hard and gets tired. It is a type of tiredness that lingers for months at a time and never goes away. Doing the simplest tasks, like making a meal, taking a shower, or getting dressed exhaust the person to the point where they feel they must take a nap. When doing regular household chores, they must stop and rest frequently before the task is complete. They have little to no stamina to speak of. The equivalent would be a “normal” person trying to live and function after not sleeping at all for three days.

•Sleep difficulties

Like insomnia, tossing and turning (because of pain), waking up several times a night, and a general sense of unrest in the mornings, as if you have not slept at all. The person often can not get through the day without a nap, because they are so tired and don’t sleep well at night. Typical sleep aids do not help. The brain simply doesn’t go into a deep enough stage of sleep to be restful for someone with Fibro. As a result, the person does not dream nearly as much as someone without Fibro.

•Brain fog, characterized by forgetfulness, memory problems, concentration problems

Being “spaced out” and unable to recall conversations, facts, numbers, or names, despite common “memory tricks“, lists or reminders. Often the person reads at a much slower rate than they are normally used to and comprehend less, or they mispronounce or stumble over words. Often they misspell words because they literally can’t remember how to spell.

•Morning stiffness that makes “jumping out of bed” impossible

Often the stiffness is so bad that the person can’t move very well for several minutes or hours in the morning. Simple stretching does not take the stiffness away. The muscles of the body are constantly tight, despite regular massage and stretching.

•Muscle knots, cramping, a weakness that is not due to strenuous physical activity and overuse

These things are a daily occurrence, despite rest and hydration. The most noticeable weakness is often in the arms and hands, and any repetitive activity (climbing stairs, typing, walking, kneeling, bending, lifting, etc.) aggravates and increases muscle pain. Often a person with Fibro can not lift a normal amount of weight that most people would find easy to carry. Their muscles just don’t work right.

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•Digestive and metabolic disorders

Like IBS, heartburn, indigestion, intestinal cramps, diarrhea, and constipation. Gluten intolerance, insulin resistance, and other food sensitivities aren’t always a major concern by themselves but coupled with all the other symptoms, are part of the diagnosis of fibromyalgia. The brain doesn’t send out the right signals to the body to be able to digest and process food properly.

•Headaches/migraines are usually a symptom of some level of chemical or sensory sensitivity

Loud, high-pitched noises, bright lights, sunlight, perfumes or other strong smells, or certain chemicals in foods can cause headaches to worsen. Headaches are common and often feel as bad as a severe hangover, without the fun of drinking. Over-the-counter pain relievers do not help.

•Balance problems like feeling dizzy, lightheaded, and blurred vision

Are all part of the neurological component to fibromyalgia’s effect on the body. Someone with fibromyalgia will often fall over, trip over things, or drop items they are holding. The person is not clumsy or stupid or slow. It is simply because the brain misfires and sends the wrong signals to the muscles and nerves. These things happen on a daily basis, not just every once in a while.

•Sensitivity to weather changes is often one of the key signs of fibromyalgia

People with fibromyalgia often have a hard time controlling their body temperature. The extreme heat of summer or the frigid cold of winter is often much more pronounced for someone with Fibro because they cannot cool or warm their body as well as a normal person. They will get heatstroke or hypothermia a lot faster than someone without fibromyalgia. Ironically, sometimes a person with fibromyalgia may feel like they are boiling to death in below 20 weather, or be freezing cold and shivering in 100 degree summers.

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02/09/2022
Agonizing Pain, Debilitating Fatigue, Joint Stiffness, and Sleep Deprivation has given me Fibromyalgia

After 27 years of service, decorated U.S. Army Brigadier General Becky Halstead (Retired), the first female West Point graduate in U.S. history to command at the strategic level in Iraq and Afghanistan, decided to retire after being diagnosed with fibromyalgia – a medically unexplained syndrome affecting the muscles and connective tissues. Currently, the disease affects as many as 12 million Americans and has been reported two times as prevalent in deployed veterans.

“Agonizing pain, debilitating fatigue, joint stiffness, and sleep deprivation-you name it and I felt it,” says Halstead. “There I was in Iraq, responsible for over 20,000 military men and women, and I privately struggled to physically keep myself going.”

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Initially, Halstead was prescribed every drug imaginable, though the pills only masked the pain and resulted in a spiral of reactions affecting her psychological and physical health. It wasn’t until a close friend suggested chiropractic that she was able to find relief and return to a normal, nearly pain-free life.

She discovered that the comprehensive treatment of chiropractic care improves joint motion, reducing and in some cases eliminating the pains and symptoms associated with fibromyalgia – such as fatigue, sleep deprivation, and depression.

“Chiropractic services helped improve my whole outlook on dealing with this chronic ailment,” she says. “The spinal adjustments along with the postural and nutritional advice I received helped to treat the fibromyalgia and allowed me to have many days with minimal pain and most days without any medications. The care of a doctor of chiropractic was life-changing for me.”

Today, Halstead is a spokesperson for the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising public awareness of the benefits associated with chiropractic services. Brig. General Halstead has made it her personal mission to educate others suffering from fibromyalgia – and to consider consulting with a doctor of chiropractic, as she did.

“Chiropractic services are a viable option that can positively impact overall wellness and health,” she concludes.

Up to this point, we have presented the benefits of chiropractic services mostly in the context of treating and avoiding sports injuries. But the value of therapy extends much further. Even those who do not actively participate in sports place constant stress upon their spines during the course of a typical day.

This causes the vertebrae to gradually become misaligned. As a result, you may experience chronic back and neck pain as well as many other impairments. A professional chiropractor can adjust your spinal column, and restore your body’s natural processes.

The hands-on nature of chiropractic services requires patients to visit the chiropractor a number of times. To be treated by the best chiropractor, a patient needs to go into the office. A chiropractor may provide acute, chronic, and/or preventive care thus making a certain number of visits sometimes necessary. Your doctor of chiropractic should tell you the extent of treatment recommended and how long you can expect it to last.

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02/09/2022
When you Got Fibromyalgia?

The brief answer is that in 2002 I was 33 and I took up running again after a four-year absence due to a ruptured disk that needed surgery to fix. When I began to run it became a real joy in my life. It was a mind over matter hobby that helped me to discover how far I could push my body and learn to listen to it at the same time.

During my running years, I knew already that my mother had Fibromyalgia and from there, her symptoms became something I learned about and talked with her about.

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So in late 2003 at 34 years of age, I began to experience some painful realities. For instance, when I would sneeze I felt a powerfully strong wave of pain flush through my upper body. The kind of cringe-worthy pain that kept me stunned until several moments when it disappeared or until I sneezed again which was normal since I typically sneezed twice in a row. This sort of pain I kept to myself and I’m glad to say that I don’t experience this as much as I did early on.

As a runner, I felt like I could run for miles and feel the better for it physically and mentally. So in late 2003, my second set of symptoms came with great discouragement when on Monday I ran 11 miles with such satisfaction that I couldn’t wait to push myself further on Tuesday.

But on Tuesday I experienced a fatigue brand new to me. No pain and no stiffness that seemed foreign to me but the fatigue worried me. I could not even run a half-mile without having to turn back. This continued to be sort of a pattern with me at the time. As healthy as I was there should be no excuse for this fatigue.

I saw my doctor and we went over my symptoms and landed on depression, which was and has been a true struggle since my high school days. Possibly I’m not sleeping well enough and lack certain vitamins. But these symptoms are not typical with fibromyalgia even if I trace back to this timeframe as my onset.

It wasn’t until 2007 when I sat down with my mother and knowing full well what she was going through it really was quite easy for both of us to fully self-diagnose me with fibromyalgia. From there it took a few years to get a doctor to believe what I already knew.

So this is my brief version, there are many years of loss and pain that only people with chronic pain live with could possibly relate to.

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02/09/2022
I tell you about Fibromyalgia as Experiencing Pain where there’s no Injury

When people ask, I explain Fibromyalgia (“FMS”) as “experiencing pain where there’s no injury.” This is why it’s so difficult to treat.

Based on my experience, and that of about 50 other people with a connection to FMS that I’ve questioned over the years, I have believed for many years now that it is caused by trauma – physical trauma, like a car accident, or emotional trauma, such as a bad divorce, because the physical affects the emotional and the emotional affects the physical, they cannot be separated.

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Since most of the answers here are from three years ago, they cannot be judged in terms of validity as much in the scientific and medical communities can change in three years. Nonetheless, a common thread among many of them is their reference to stress, depression, and other maladies often caused by trauma.

As to the suggestion that genetics may be a cause, I think medical research will find, if it hasn’t already, that any connection to genetics is related instead to family dysfunction and the extent to which that may lead to a person being more susceptible to experiencing PTSD in situations that might not trigger PTSD in others, but even that is a stretch.

In the final analysis, I think research will find that FMS is not caused by genetics.

I had the hallmark symptom of FMS feeling bruised all over within weeks of the trauma-triggering event without knowing what it was, but it was 14 years before I awoke one morning with full-blown FMS. The intervening PTSD that lasted nearly all of that 14 years was so intense, both physically and emotionally, that, if I did have FMS sooner than that, I wouldn’t have known it.

I believe, instead, that it wasn’t until the severe PTSD (finally diagnosed in year 9) began to subside that FMS made its appearance. The following describes what I believe happened internally. It’s what makes sense based on all the things I was experiencing physically.

With trauma, the “fight-flight-freeze” response is triggered which releases adrenalin, but when this release of adrenalin continues for too long, the body/brain forgets how to turn it off.

As a result of this disruption in brain chemistry, the neurotransmitters become confused and end up super-sensitive, so the sensitivity to pain that some mentioned as a possible cause doesn’t cause FMS. It’s one of its consequences.

It’s my understanding that over the last year or so, the medical community has come to believe that trauma is the cause, but, as was the case in my situation, the trauma-triggering event can precede the appearance of FMS by years.

Of all the drugs and other treatment options I’ve tried, low-dose Methadone has worked the best, eliminating the weakness that, after 20 yrs. with FMS, seems to trouble me the most. If I could remain in motion 24/7, I wouldn’t have much difficulty at all. Guess that’s why I end up staying up all night so often.

I’ve noticed that, though the FMS has gradually subsided over the years except for the weakness and inability to sleep more than 2–4 hours, a flare can be easily re-triggered by stressful situations.

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02/09/2022