Comments | fibromyalgia: post massage injury?

stormy28 in fibromyalgia

post massage injury?

Jan 26, 2006 22:52

I had my first "professional" massage last Sunday, (I posted about it earlier this week), and had a horrific flare that did not want to go away, which started Monday. I was in excrutiating pain, and was totally exhausted all day Tuesday. Well, finally I started getting back to "normal", and the pain subsidded to the usual, except for the bottom ( Read more... )

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I personally Hated massages wildhoney414 January 27 2006, 04:10:47 UTC

They did not help me one little bit and I didnt have sense enough to tell the therapist she was hurting me...I have had other people say the same thing...that the massages hurt them rather then helped...however there are all kinds of different times of massage..if ever i try it again..i will tell them to go easy easy easy on my muscles...This Idiot that did mine was also trying to break up adhesions in my belly I had had a total hysterctomy 4 0r 5 months before..Needless to say it was PAINFULL and wouldnt have worked anyways...When I look back at some of the idiots i have been seen by and sought help from..! its no wonder I just go about my business of living the best i can without *their ever so knowledgble* help! lol

tikvah January 27 2006, 04:11:59 UTC

It is possible to get an injury. It's hard to find a massage therapist who is right for any one fibromite. You just may have had a bad first experience; you may still be purging too many toxins; or she could be the wrong therapist.

Give the therapist at least one more try, but do mention what happened with the first session, so that the therapist can adjust if needed.

kleiosgirl January 27 2006, 04:21:58 UTC

I agree and you just might not ever be able to get your legs massaged. I've been going for years and it has helped me tremedously, but getting my lower back done just makes things work.

Hang in there and talk to your therapist about it.

perfect_autumn January 27 2006, 04:37:34 UTC

as a massage therapist

My Fibro has been immensely helped by massage.

You can have bad effects, it happens. The therapist should probably work less deep, and be gentler. You, as the client also have the responsibility to let the therapist know you're hurting During the massage. She won't know otherwise. As a student(?), she may not know or be experienced enough to check in often for someone with our illness. Tell her about Every weird sensation and pain.

There are people who specialize. I do. It's hard work, because each body is different. I know some therapist who won't take FM patients b/c they don't feel confident in it and it takes more sensativity then other clients.

When I was going to school I got worked on daily. Which is normally not good from someone ill. In the end I found a way to help with contact sensativity for myself and others.

Be patient, keep your doctor and therapist informed, and trust your body.

stormy28 January 28 2006, 04:49:04 UTC

Thank you autmn, for the much-heeded advice. I really didn't hurt much at all During the massage, and, when I did, I let her know, (I'm a "big cry-baby" who has no success at hiding my pain, not that I try). She is a student, using me as her guinea pig for certification, so I think maybe the combination of that, and my not being experienced at all, must've led to this "not-so-good" first experience. In other words, we're both learning.
I'm supposed to have a second massage from her Sunday, and I plan to ask her to be very gentle, maybe just doing myofacial, and maybe not for so long. I didn't realize until I left her house that the actual massage was over an hour long, surely not good for a first time.
Thanks again
Stormy

katsarecool January 28 2006, 13:46:27 UTC

A student giving a massage for those of us with special problems is probably a bad idea. I would find one that has training in massaging fibro and myofacial pain patients. These work wonders and I swear by them.

And between the sessions you can also learn to do self-massage that could help too. I give myself a little massage everyday with oils. I work the oil lightly into the skin, moving my hand downward with the grain of the muscle; never going across the grain or moving my hand upwards. Just repeated slight downward pressure to stretch the muscle. I have put myself asleep doing this. LOL My g/f has learned how to massage me this way too. I think it is called Swedish massage though I could be wrong.

Good luck on Sunday!

Kats

jadedmosaic January 27 2006, 04:38:34 UTC

I agree.I think with any massage of all the variety of massges they still all release toxins and your bound to feel a bit achey.Massage is a age old way of clensing the body.Its more a detox method than comfort thing, although some forms are relaxing, it depends on the kind you had done.Like all other posters, I agree get it checked out by comunicating to therapist before dropping, it, try again ~ Tiea

lilliew January 27 2006, 05:01:31 UTC

Go here: http://www.sover.net/~devstar and look for articles about physical type therapy and myofascial release, I beliee there is a few articles that discuss something similar. It's likely the massage therapist hit upon a trigger point of yours which referred pain there and you might want to have them be more careful with knots, etc ( ... )