What triggered your fibromyalgia?

I'm not sure that mine was triggered by anything, but it is possible it was triggered when I hit a deer with my minivan. It was after that when my symptoms got bad enough to start seeking medical help.

I had a nearly fatal labor and delivery of my daughter in 1996 at age 43-i never felt right after that and within 2 years I started showing symptoms. Healthy asa horse before that
Maggie

I'm sure it was the C-sections I had for both my daughters (my boys are both older). My first was an emergency one. A few months after I developed palntar fascitis, aching hands like arthritis, RLS, depression, cognitive impairment... After yet another move, I saw a doctor that started checking me for RA. Then I started to feel better off and on, and went through a period where I sure sure I was a hypochondriac since I couldn't even say where it hurt, or it was there then gone.

Then a surprise pregnancy (what a blessing, and get this, I told my dh I was pregnant as he was still limping from his vasectomy, a little too late, lol!) Then I felt great again and forgot all my aches. Or rather, they were the usual pregnancy ones, but nothing major. I wanted a natural birth, so badly. But I let the doctor bully me into inducing me b/c I had gestational diabetes. The induction didn't work, so I had to have yet another C-section. I quickly went downhill from there. I only breastfed her for 8 months as I couldn't stand her touching me, her sucking hurt like crazy. I had pain so bad in my knee once (my bad knee that I hurt years previously) I had to go to the hospital. Of course I was fine by the time I got there, even though it felt through the night that I had wrapped it around a tree.

More depression, RLS, aches I coulnd't ignore, tingling, facial pain, debilitating fatigue...
I started seeing a NP for my facial pain at first. He was quite knowledgable in fibro and after several visits put all my symptoms together. His supervising doctor didn't believe in it though, and wanted to treat me for depression. But my NP took good care of me. It took about a year of specialists and tests and here I am.

My youngest is 4 1/2 now, so I would say I've had fibro 4 years now.

MVA - a roll over in 2008 - 6 neck and shoulder surgeries later...I am was dx less than 2 weeks ago.

I believe my scoliosis surgery 3 years ago triggered mine (I have two 8 inch rods and 14 screws in my spine, and was diagnosed at 8 with scoliosis). I am only 23, and was diagnosed this august with fibromyalgia. I have had a rough life when it comes to health problems, and I am still trying to cope with this new diagnosis. I just signed up with this forum because I feel that knowing all of you that deal with this understand what I am going through, and I need as much support as I can get right now!

For me, I think it was 2009 that did it. I think I have had minor symptoms for the past 20 years, but 2009 was really stressful for me. A friend of mine was killed that April, my best friend was killed in May, my department at work reorged that summer, and I got moved into a position that required a lot of walking in a location and function I had no business being assigned to. By January 2010, I had developed tendinosis in both feet, making walking miserable and nearly impossible. I started developing pain and stiffness to the point where I could barely move. I felt like I was 90 but I was only 34. Finally after a year of putting up with that (and getting a new, less stressful job), I got dx'd with Fibro in May of 2011 when I was referred to a rheumatologist who took one look at me and recognized both Hypermobility Syndrome and the Fibro in the first 5 minutes I was there.

I may have been genetically susceptible to it as I was born with bilateral club foot and (now I know) hypermobility. I may even qualify for a dx of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, though I have to talk to my new Rheummy about (mine passed away in November). :(

Cymbalta has been a lifesaver for me! I felt worlds better even in the first day I started taking it. It wasn't helping much with my sleep issues though, so I take that in the morning and then take half an Elavil with one 5 mg Melatonin and some Valerian Root about an hour before I go to bed. I can finally sleep all night without feeling groggy in the morning.

Lately, I've developed a lot of pain in my wrists and ankles and I'm wondering if I've got some arthritis cropping up. I have to wear a wrist brace on my right hand now, so I've got an appt with my new Rheummy to discuss it.

*gentle hugs to all*

...Mel

that caught my attention I believe it was repeated doses of cipro and leavaquin with predinisone for asthmatic bronchitis

For me I think I was under alot of stress at work. Working 12 hr nights, and then in 2009 someone rear ended me and I suffered a whiplash and concussion. I think the accident brought it out full force. I have had anxiety all of my life and lost my father, brother and very close sister(like mom) all before I was 23. Father died when I was 11, so alot of emotional distress over the years. I'm sure it wore my nervous system down..lol.

I'm not 100% on how this started. I was in a pretty serious car accident in 2002 and I had whiplash up and down my back, and this started me on a whole new and different level of sickness. I got tonsilitis after tonsilitis and needed my tonsils out *wasn't definitively diagnosed until 2004* and I was 23.

In 2006 I had the antibiotic, Clindamyacin for a toothache which a) triggered certain symptoms and b) we are now suspecting also caused C. Difficile. I was fighting something VERY similar to C. Diff. since 2006 to now, but I did not get diagnosed until October 2011, and was immediately put on the antibiotic, Flagyl. I have a feeling I kept it at bay with prebiotics/probiotics but it flared right up in October 2011.

I also found out in November 2010 that my Vitamin D levels are quite low.

A theory I have is my gut was affected by the Clindamyacin which wreaked havoc on my digestive system, causing ill-amounts of vitamins and minerals to be absorbed. This in-turn could have caused the Vitamin D to get lower and lower, and as I'm Canadian and we have low levels already *apparently!*, has been a prime suspect in my symptoms. Fibro and Vitamin D seem to go hand-and-hand in terms of similar symptoms.

I wish I knew myself what caused this...just for sanity's sake even, lol.

I'm not sure, but it's likely that it was a whole host of things from a stressful period in my life. I was partying a lot, eating very poorly, dealing with trauma. I've been eating better and taking care of myself, but I'm not sure if I'll ever fully recover.

Hi I'm new here, this seems like a great forum.
My fibromyalgia seems to have been triggered by a series of unfortuante events. I was in a bad car accident and then a few months after that had a spontanius lung collapse, after the lung failed a second time a botched surgery to repair it cost me the use of most of it. I noticed I started getting really tired really often after all that and slightly sore,but the nail in the fybro coffin happened when my family moved to a more farm-like area.My allergies grew out of control and I went to a specialist who gave me an allergy shot. Even with everything I'd been through I'd never experienced that much pain in all my life the night I had the shot. Once I moved back to a more normal area I started noticing things weren't better the pain kept coming on and off and my legs got so stiff and sore walking was hard if not impossible at times. I was diagnosed about three months ago and have just now started getting treatment for it.

I had no idea that Cipro could cause Fibro! I have taken that antibiotic a ton of times, and never knew that!

But in my case it could have been a number of things, from whiplash when I was in a car accident when I was 17, my whole array of anxiety disorders and depression, etc....

However, I feel it is genetics working against me. My grandmother had it when they called it "Fibrosis", my mother has it, and so does my sister. I think it's in the blood! LOL