Can fibromyalgia develop after an injury?

I don't know but, I fell on my left side rather hard three months before I started hurting everywhere.

I hurt the most on the joints I hurt in the fall.

Nicole- welcome! I have read that they believe that fibro sometimes comes from an injury or a trauma. Mine happen after having a severe neck injury. It took years to figure out what was going on because I was blaming all my problems from my neck injury. I thought the surgeon mess up doing my neck. I had scans after scans looking for answers. It was this site where I figured it all out. It was like a light bulb that turned on. I feel very blessed to come across this site. Maybe this will be a life changer for you to.

As I read other post It started to make sense. I am not sure if you have a good fibro regimine going yet? This is a good place to learn and start. Just remember we all react different to treatments and meds. Some work well for others and some don't. I finally am feeling fairly good now. It has taken some trial and error, but all worth it.

I have went down the medicine route, but got no where. So now I treat my fibro mostly natural ways except for pain control. I do take subutex for pain. It has been my life saver. It 's not for everybody, but works well for me.

I hope you continue to visit. I got a good book on Fibromalgia and I could see myself in each page. My Dr's never shared most what I read from the book. My depression is gone and my anxiety is on the side line I found out. Lol Feel free to ask questions.

Post Edited (ak angel) : 11/3/2012 1:00:50 AM (GMT-6)

PS I deleted your other thread, you had two...

Hope that you feel better soon...

I am so amazed. I read thru the symptoms & there are some I have that I didn't even think could be related. I wake in the morning sweaty even though I have a fan, I also get this feeling like my lips are numb, but it was the same feeling I would get when taking my effexor late so I didn't even connect it! I am so grateful I found this forum! Thank you so much

I have had some injuries in the past, though none that occured immediately beforethefibro slowly crept up on me. The oddities in my life include:
being double vaccinated as a child because when i was adopted my initial records could not be found, so i got them all a second time
fell on ice in my mid-twenties and had one of my upper vertebrea pop out of my spine, took weeks to get it punched back in by a chiro
in 2002 a minor car accident gave me a bit of whiplash
in 2003 a miscarriage nearly killed me, and i had to get a transfusion, now i have some sort of antibody e that has to be watched during other pregnancies.
felt my worst in 2004-5-6, diagnosed in 2009 i think with fibro. Did the injuries cause fibro? I dont feel they did, although when fibro flares up it is the injuries that hurt the most. But i chalk that up to pain memory. I got a painful injection in my thigh once, and for a bout a year after, when i didnt feel well that spot on my thigh would urt like i had just gotten the shot again.

yes, check out an article published by a big shot pain physician; Forest Tennant, MD, i believe the name is, "Howard Hughes and Psuedoaddiction". that same mechanism of upregulation or hyperalgesia is the origin of many of the "chronic pain syndromes". RSD or CRPS can be similar to Fibromyalgia at times.