Fibromyalgia? I believe that I have it?

Apparently that one posted doesn't realize that some people use different words for things. I call them trigger points because for me they trigger extra pain. Docs might call them tender points because they are looking for areas of extra tenderness. Generally they are mirrored on each part of the body.

Fibro is generally triggered by some traumatic event, but you can just wake up with it one day. It is pain all over, in your muscles, joints, bones, and skin. There really is a lot to it and since I have fibro it's hard to explain since there is so much and it can be tiring to type so much or concentrate. If you think you have it then you have to see the right doctors. Firbo is a diagnosis by exclusion kinf of thing. You have to rule out EVERYTHING else before a doc can say you might have it. You will get a lot of blood tests, xrays and other tests to help diagnose you. It's a long process, generally takes years.

As for your what hurts question, EVERYTHING. ALL THE TIME. There is no real thing to make the pain go away. You have to learn to live with it. Anyone who tries to tell you it can be cured it wrong, or they never had fibro to begin with. It's very hard on us in the fibro community to see all these scammers out there.

I had no luck with doctors who were unwilling to suggest anything else but anti-depressants. I did not have the typical Fibro symptoms for a long time. Mostly lactic acid buildup in shoulder and neck muscles, very low energy and lot of pain + brain fog. One major flareup recently caused most tendor/trigger points to hurt which is when I figured out what I had. Pain between the shoulder blades, left shoulder aches, neck pain, right knee ( trigger point) pain, right/left elbow pain, pain near 2nd rib Not all points hurt every day only the neck and shoulders. I had host of other symptoms which correlated with research done on Fibromyalgia.

The following provided me great relief

- Magnesium + Malic acid ( KAL brand) - 4 tablets/per day ( decrease if you have diarrhea) -- reduces pain and muscle spasms

- coenzymate - b Complex - from Source naturals ( 2 /day) - helps with energy

- turmeric -( Vitamin Shoppe brand) - 2 tablets/day - to reduce inflammation

- topical biofreeze ( pain gel) on aching muscles

- heat pad ( at night)

- Ashwagandha ( 2 tablets /night) - to help with sleep.

- Deep (Yoga) breathing and meditation

Good Luck.

Fibromyalgia is psychogenic. There are no neurological tests for it. The pain itself is psychogenic. It is the result of repressed aggression. To an extremely kind and peaceable person, for instance, the idea of striking another human is unthinkable. However, all humans have aggressive instincts. Since a person with fibromyalgia cannot hurt another person, he needs to take his aggression out on himself. The reason you have pain on your left side is that you are right handed. If you were going to strike another person, the blow would land on his left side. Since the other person is a psychological symbol of yourself, you will end up having pain on your own left side.

Incidentally, a clue that should confirm the psychological nature of fibromyalgia is that it is almost exclusively a woman's illness. And women are precisely the people who are trained from childhood to repress their physical aggressiveness.

http://www.psychiatrist.com/pcc/brainstorm/br6207....

One more thing:

To the incredibly ignorant oafs, MRI's do not show brain damage in people with Fibromyalgia. If they did, there would be a neurological test for it, and there is none. There is nothing to be learned from MRI's about the origin of pain in remote parts of the body.