FMS Cause?

[neonrose5]

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

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[amber_n_teal]

I got into a car accident and my symptoms showed up about 8 months later

[krasota]

My "trauma" was a round of vaccinations I received prior to studying abroad in Moscow. I had immediate averse reactions, followed by a sudden onset photoallergy (severe photosensitivity) at four months, a severe spring allergy season reaction, and sudden onset of fibro and CFIDS almost 12 months after the vax.

[grand_alf]

I got hit by a bus in 1998....I bounced but my body hasn't stopped resonating I was diagnosed a couple of months after.

[neonrose5]

I bounced off the grass on the side of the trail.. I know what the bouncing's like.. I've emailed my sister who was there to find out when the hell it happened..

[glitterychaos]

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]

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

But I'm not looking for blame..

[glitterychaos]

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]

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..

[ivory25]

i've heard lots of talk about trauma (physical, emotional, etc.) as a trigger for the underlying problem that simply hadn't reared yet. I am a slow-start fibro sufferer (i made that up) meaning that I didn't just get symptoms and I can't relate them to a trauma. My symptoms developed very slowly, some as injuries that never quite "healed" and then a creeping fatigue that finally one day I stopped and looked at myself and said "this is a problem". I think it is totally acceptable for a non-trauma fibro start.

[neonrose5]

I think that may be my issue.. cuz it seems the timing is off.. *sigh*

[glitterychaos]

You can have fibro without any trauma at all! Its not a requirement, or evena diagnosis criteria. Might be better to look for more ways to feel good rather than for potential cause. Hopefully, research into the cause of fibro will start providing some answers, but it'll take a while for it to do people like us much good.

[neonrose5]

Oh - I'm doing that too :) But it was just a thought that popped into my head the other night..