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What triggered or caused your fibro?
Sometimes it may be an accident or injury. in my case, it was a year of high-stress. I had multiple problems w/ my employer, found a new job in a different state, & moved our family. My chronic pain started about 5-6 months later.
Looking back, what triggered or caused your fibro?
Looking back, what triggered or caused your fibro?
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Permalink Reply by Doug on -
Well Randal, mine came about by a stressful divorce. It came 3 years after the divorce.
Doug
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Permalink Reply by Randall on -
Doug, interesting that there was a 3 yr period between ur divorce & the onset of fibro. Any other factors?
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Permalink Reply by Shannon Williams on -
I have been told by my doctor's that I had symptoms since childhood and that there was no one trigger. My father was hit by a drunk driver (he almost died, his car looked like a paperweight) when I was 7 (he had 8 broken bones, and 5 dislocations). It took him about two years to walk again. Then my mother started to be sick almost every morning for the next two years. Then we found out she had kidney failure. She started dialysis, and was on it for almost 9 years till her kidney transplant. She went through 20 operations between Thanksgiving and New Years, we thought she was going to die so many times. That year I was diagnosed. While, my fibromyalgia has not gotten worse since then, my mother is in the hospital about every two months. I find it is more painful to watch someone I love sick or hurting than myself.
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Permalink Reply by Rick on -
I have several theories about what, if anything, triggered my fibro. Some of them are probably just coincidental.
My symptoms literally started overnight. And I was doing some things in the weeks leading up to the onset of symptoms that may have played a role. First, I had been trying to lose the "Freshman 15" so I thought I would try cutting carbs from my diet. I did the whole Atkin's diet thing for a couple weeks, and literally days later my symptoms started. I was also lifting weights at the gym and supplementing with creatine monohydrate, which enables your muscles not to fatigue as easily. I feel like there could possibly be a link, but it's probably just a strange coincidence.
Also, it's possible that sometime in the past I had Lyme disease, which has been known to trigger fibromyalgia. I had a positive Lyme blood test, but several months of antibiotics failed to improve my condition.
But my gut feeling is that my fibro was triggered by something that happened several years ago. When I was a freshman in college (in 2004), I had something particularly traumatic happen to me. One night, after drinking an enormous amount of alcohol, I went out with friends and got separated from them. I'm not going to go into details in public, but I ended up being (potentially) exposed to HIV and when I woke up the next morning, I started to have horrible, horrible anxiety. I couldn't sleep for weeks because I feared the worst, it was literally all I could think about for months. In retrospect, I think I was stuck in a "fight-or-flight" reaction, and I think it took a horrible toll on my nervous system. A few months later, my pain problems and headaches started. It's all been downhill from there. Now, I find it particularly ironic (and cruel) that I hadn't caught HIV but that incessantly worrying about it might have caused me to have something almost as bad, and in some ways worse.
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Permalink Reply by joe allen on -
the adkins diet thing is esp. interesting to me because mine started exactly one month after I went on a gluten free diet. I have always wondered if this was coincidental or if there was a possible link. humm....
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Permalink Reply by Randall on
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One other possible cause of my fibro: For about 12-14 years, I drank a lot of caffeiene-free diet coke, about 1 litter per day, & the artificial sweetner in it (can't recall the name) has been linked to many health problems, including fibro. Again, this is a theory, & can't say for sure b/c the research hasn't advanced that far. But it is another possible cause.
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Permalink Reply by Joel on -
I've wondered about this many times and have come to no conclusions.
My mother has Fibro and was diagnoised in the late 70's early 80's, when it was hardly known to anyone. It can be hereditary so I may have gotton it from my mother.
I was also living with a lot of stress in my life, between my job and homelife and this may have caused it. Maybe because of my mother I was more susceptible to it, and with the high stress it triggered it. There is no one thing that I can think of that might have been the cause. I do know I had it for many years and it progressively got worse to the point that I had trouble walking and that's when I found out I had Fibro.
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Permalink Reply by Hans Miniar Jónsson on -
I honestly have no idea.
I look back at my short life and find little symptoms starting up almost exactly as far as I can remember.
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Permalink Reply by Randall on
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Wow Debra, sounds like u've been thru a lot of rough stuff. Sorry that those men treated u so bad when u were young. No girl deserves that. My own parents didn't have the greatest marriage, but can't imagine my Dad ever doing the stuff your Dad did. Sounds to me like u've done a lot to make something of yourself. Reading this helps me to understand your response to the thread about women on fibroguys.
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