fibro is a result of trauma or injury?

I think mine was from mental stress along with physical stress. But there are many who have suffered trauma...

Hugs, Karen...

Mine developed after a sustained time of emotional trauma.

I'm not at all sure, but sometimes I think mine started after a 3rd-degree back burn to my mid-back. I was 13 at the time. It was very traumatic; I leaned against a stove, caught fire, had skin grafting and had to be out of school for a whole semester.

I didn't feel any symptoms for a couple of years, but in high school my lower back started hurting...I was also tired a lot of the time. That's when I started trying to eat as well as possible and really get into exercising. At the time, I didn't really think anything of it - I just needed to try harder to be healthy.

It wasn't until my first pregnancy that my symptoms really began to escalate...moreso with each one. By my early 30s, I was having full-blown Fibro symptoms. I was diagnosed (I think) in 1993.

It seems we are all over the map on this one....

Debbie

I have also been told the same thing. Many of my friends have had emotional stress or trauma occur in their lives. I have had both. So I do believe this is true.

I have had symptoms dating back over ther last 30 years or so, but not full on pain until a year ago.My daughter was born with a lot of health issues and has undergone many surgeries(including life saving heart surgery, and a major hip surgery involving a body cast). I developed post traumatic stress and think years of staying strong for her have brought about my fibro diagnosis.

I think fibro can be a result of trauma or injury, but does not necessarily have to be. Until we have a firm understanding of what the condition is, exactly, then we can start to learn the conditions under which it begins. There are just too many variables, otherwise, that are anecdotal.

We all, including normal people, have accidents, illnesses, emotional traumas. It is part of living that, sometimes, people get hurt both emotionally and/or physically. Some develop a long-term illness from this event--others do not.

Correlation is not always causation. In other words, just because two events happen near one another in time, does not mean that one causes the other.

Mine is genetic, I am fairly sure. My father would have been diagnosed, had it been an option. My older sister had fibro, my older brother has symptoms but has not been diagnosed. His son is starting to develop some symptoms. His daughter has celiac. ALL of us have medication sensitivity, gastro problems, allergies of various sorts.

Post Edited (Myself 09) : 4/22/2014 9:38:12 AM (GMT-6)

I am a childhood sexual abuse survivor that was only addressed in the last few years. Dealing with everything brought on my depression and then the fibro. Only recently diagnosed with fibro...was told for a year it was just my depression.

Physical injury can be huge stress both psychological and physical. The most damaging stress is chronic stress as we are designed to handle an occasional major stress event but not the drip – drip – drip of chronic stress.

The body has only one goal – to keep you alive at all costs. When it reaches a threshold of stress adaptation it will use pain signals to alert you that the organism is at risk. Could be fibro, could be headaches or the other 150 odd symptoms on the list of psychoneural symptoms. When you don’t listen the body speaks with more intense and a wider range of symptoms.

Unfortunately fibro appears to have been a warning system that has become stuck.. We know that anxiety drugs can actually keep the condition alive and that antidepressants are no better than placebo. We also know that pain medications sensitize the pain receptors so drugs for fibro may turn out to be a problem.

My fibro started from long term Type A behaviors – doing too much ....too fast!

Anything that causes pain of any kind such as falling, broken bone, bicycle wreck, car wreck, tooth extraction, braces, TMJ, surgery of any kind, childbirth, chemotherapy, radiation, death of loved one, divorce, etc, is TRAUMA to the body and can precipitate fibromyalgia.