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neonrose5 in fibromyalgia

FMS Cause?

May 05, 2007 16:55

One theory about the cause of FMS is trauma.. & for the life of me, I couldn't think of any trauma that I had near the onset of my symptoms.. then it just poped into my head last night.. when *was* it that I had that riding accident?? Some years ago I got thrown/fell from a horse as itr spontaneously decided to break into a run.. I was in the ( Read more... )

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glitterychaos May 6 2007, 04:46:21 UTC

um... I've only talked to two doctors about this, but they both talked about "trauma" in the leagues of child abuse, abandonment, near-death illnesses, things of that type. I've never heard of the trauma triggering fibro being things like car accidents, falling off horses, and the like.

Not to say it doesn't hurt to fall off a horse (I know, I have before! Got bucked off, a few times, myself) But, its not anywhere near the type of "trauma" my doctors were talking about.

Why some people get fibro, I don't think anyone knows. The trauma thing is a correlation, not an actual cause, insofar as the medical literature I've read states.

I'd be careful to avoid "blaming" a particular incident for the fibro, really. Too much is still unknown about the causes of fibro to really be able to say what's going on.

neonrose5 May 7 2007, 02:53:34 UTC

I've heard of injury being the cause.. like a car accident..

But I'm not looking for blame..

glitterychaos May 7 2007, 05:21:57 UTC

Huh, that's strange. I'll be asking my doctor about it, not something I'd heard of before. From my understanding, it took something a lot more of a traumatic nature to be associated with fibro. Like, my doctor's experience has been that most people with fibro have had abusive childhoods (something like 70-80% of the patients she's seen with fibro, though I'm not remembering the exact number).

People seem to have a tendency of wanting to "blame" an incident in their life for whatever's wrong :/ not a real good way to go, not very productive at least.

neonrose5 May 7 2007, 23:07:17 UTC

well, ya, I have an abusive in my background somewhere too.. So I *can* blame my mom for this??!?! *teasing grin*

Honestly, I'm just looking at what could have been a cause..

glitterychaos May 7 2007, 23:14:19 UTC

Heh, hells yea, I blame my parents for EVERYTHING! Course, it is kinda cool, I can say my childhood is like out of a horror movie and people laugh ( ... )

neonrose5 May 8 2007, 01:57:04 UTC

I can blame my father for my endometriosis tho *g*

I actually get days where I have the interest & ability & time to research stuff.. like today about FMS day, that I plopped into my journal :)

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