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Posted 7/10/2011 5:15 PM (GMT 0)
Hi again, this is Kathy as I said before I usually post on the cp forum, but I have been wondering lately how many of us suffering from fibromyalgia have gotten it after having some other traumatic issues.

I have degenerative disc disease, along with various others things, but I am just wondering if there is some connection between having a traumatic injury either to the spine, or any other parts of the back.

I wonder if there has ever been a study between the two.  Or for that matter, any other trauma to the body.  I used back because I believe it was my back injury that might have  brought on the fibromyalgia.

If anyone has heard of any links have been made between trauma of some kind to the body and fibromyalgia.  Any studies that have been done?  It makes you wonder.

So if anyone knows of any such studies, please I would like to know.

Thankyou and take care everyone.

Posted 7/10/2011 8:06 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Kathy, I also have DDD and have had a lumbar laminectomy. It was after my back surgery that all the symptoms of fibro came together. I had a couple of symptoms before that...insomnia and migraines.

No one really know for sure what causes fibro but I believe it to be neurological...how our brain and spinal cord processes pain. Some people believe stress or a tramatic event triggered fibro, but then there are others where fibro occurred spontaneosly. Another theory is there might be a variation of a gene that causes it.

I know of no study that has proved a link between trauma and fibromyalgia.

Hoping for a cure for all of us someday :)

Hugs, Robin
Posted 7/11/2011 1:24 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you for your input, that is so weird, I also had a lumbar laminictomy in 1998, unfortuntley it failed.I had been to several neurosurgeons by that time.  It turned out I has been in the office of the doctor who did my ll approx 2-3 years earlier, at that time, the neurodoc I saw told me to swim and lose weight.  Its so crazy when I returned to see another neurodoc in the same office, his answer was "well I will do the lumbar lam, but you have waited to long now and the surgery had less that 40-60%that is would work.

I waited to long?  Anyway its getting late and I have been known to rant on so thank you again.

I am sure I will be back here soon.

Take care of yourself

Posted 7/11/2011 2:36 AM (GMT 0)
I had a 3 level cervical fusion after a fall. It was then I went down hill with my health. I believe they are connected.
Posted 7/11/2011 3:07 AM (GMT 0)
I got a 3rd-degree back burn when I was 13, which was very traumatic. I began having vague back pain beginning a few years later, but also lack of energy and some other fibro-like symptoms...not that I suspected anything, really, back then.

By now I also have disc degeneration, and my worst pain is still in my back.

Who knows?

Debbie
Posted 7/11/2011 6:14 AM (GMT 0)
 

Hi NiNi,

A traumatuc injury (to soft tissue, or especially to the head, neck, or spine) causes the release of inflammatory cytokines in the body, often resulting in fibromyalgia.  Shoemaker discusses this in his book, Desperation Medicine, where he also discusses a host of other neurotoxin mediated illnesses.

 

Posted 7/11/2011 2:42 PM (GMT 0)
I had L5 fail in my lower back which brought on Fibromyalgia (FMS). Since then, I've been diagnosed with stenosis. I also have advanced osteoarthitis in both knees and one hip as well as TMJ. THe perfect storm scenario to develop FMS. Accidents, childbirth and trauma of any sort can cause FMS in some people. The mechanism that causes it is not understood. Take care.
Posted 7/11/2011 3:14 PM (GMT 0)
I've had the same thought running circles in my mind, because mine also started not long after i had a severe fall on my lower back. Funny thing though is that at the time my x-rays didn't show any abnormalities (except the scoliosis wich has again been confirmed by the Rheumatologist earlier this week) In the meantime i have developed degenerative disc disease (also only discoverd about that last week) so thats why i've also made that connection. But i havent found anything on studies and i am becoming a firm believer that Fibro is allready there to begin with but that certain events can just 'trigger' it.

Fiona
Posted 7/11/2011 6:22 PM (GMT 0)
They have found connections between traumatic events and onset of fibro. You can certainly get it without one too. My fibro started after I nearly died giving birth to my only child at 43, I resigned from my job at 51 (barely made it that long) and then Katrina hit. After that I went into a really long flare and got just about every symptom on the list-lol. I am dialing it back after therapy and lots of prayer and meds, but still have those days.

Maggie
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