Joint Hypermobility Syndrome and FMS

Hi all. I was reading a book about JHS and how it can be a cause of FMS. The book is titled "Hypermobility, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain" and is written by Drs. and Professors. The authors explain that, because of JHS, daily activities such as sitting at a desk for the day, carrying groceries working in the garden etc, can cause micro traumas in the body because the joints tend to move further than they should. These constant micro traumas then cause the nervous system to become over sensitive to pain and cause FMS. I may have have JHS (my fingers, toes, knees, elbows are double jointed) but have not been officially dx'd and I have worked in IT for 15 years and have sat at a desk for most of that time and before that I worked as a carpenter but had to change careers because of back pain. I would never have thought that it was a problem but from looking up the symtoms of JHS it could have caused a lot of the problems I have experienced over the years. Does anyone else have any experience with this? I am really interested to find out if it was JHS that caused my FMS. Thanks in advance

Acheybody, does your daughter fall a lot? My 26 yr old daughter has hyper mobility and she has started falling. She is complaining that her knees feel like they have shards of glass all the time behind the knee cap. We can be standing in line at the check out and have to grab on to something to keep from hitting the floor.

She is away visiting her sister overseas and has fallen down the stairs 2 times in 2 weeks.

I have always been clumsy and accident prone. Anyone who knows me knows how clumsy I am. Yes Mrsppmrxky, I hope your daughter wasnt hurt badly too. I dont think I had similar problems with my knees, I do have the regular FMS pains in my knees though. There's a few books on amazon about hypermobility, mind you they are hard to read. I am going to my doctor in the next week or so and will bring this up with her and my rhumey.

I am very interested to find out if this could have caused my FMS. hypermobility seems to be a genetic trait that can be passed on to a child by one parent, both parents dont need to have the gene. So I want to make sure that my kids don't get FMS because of this, if there is any risk, I'm not saying there is yet anyway. All of the symptoms I have had over the last 6-7 years, or even longer, are exactly what is discussed in the book. But then again who knows, FMS is like that... I'll let you know if I find out anymore. Here are a few interesting links that got me started:

http://arthritis.about.com/cs/jh/a/hypermobfms.htm
http://www.fmpartnership.org/Files/Website2005/Learn%20about%20Fibromyalgia/Articles/Joint%20Hypermobility%20And%20Fibromyalgia.htm


Sean

A friend of ours suggested that we might want to look into Ehlers Danlos. That is common with Celiacs.

Hmmm, sounds just like my daughter! She used to put both feet behind her head, then put a brush in one, and brush her hair that way.

Debbie