Trauma vs. Fibromyalgia

I have read that trauma (like an accident or war zone etc.) can be linked to this disease? Also that genetics may play a role as well.

Sooooo...Have all of us experienced some kind of trauma or had a family funeral lately? I've got them both covered. At least I believe my mom may have carried this gene as well. She always complained that her low back and down her legs, ached and hurt. She never got tested and I suppose the doctors figured that the surgery would be worse than the pain. Any thoughts on this theory?

Sue

Anyhow, I'm really not too sure how soon after that I started getting the symptoms...but I'm almost sure that's what 'triggered it'.

Also, my mom tells me that she thinks my dad's mother had it. But just was never diagnosed. She tells me that she was ALWAYS hurting and always fatigued! I've yet to ask my dad though...I'm afraid of the answer I guess, maybe?! I don't know but I've heard the same as you and well...now that I've typed all of that...I guess I've got both covered as well!!

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I have also suffered through some real trauma in the last two years. I took care of my mom when she was diagnosed with lung cancer (never smoked a day in her life). Watching your mother die and not able to do a damn thing about is quite stressful. Four months later my sisters husband had surgery and was dead the next morning. He left a wife and 4 kids behind. My sister is a mess. Then two months after that my daughter was on her way to her college and there was an accident in which a woman on her bicycle was hit and killed. I went to the scene that morning and it was like going through a war zone. My mind is still not ready to deal with that one.

There is more but you get the picture. I had surgery 15 months after all this and I just feel that the stress, depression and physical condition may have played a part in all of this. I have also suffered from social anxiety for several years now.

I suppose everyone here has had similar stories about trauma or surgeries. I just wish our government agencies would wake up and give SSD to the ones who need it.

Hugs back!!!

Sue

I will tell you my doctor also told me when I lost my hair that I was a type A personality never thought of myself as one but he said that I was and that was a large reason that I was having problems. Their is good stress and bad stress your body doesn't know the difference it just knows it's in the fight or flight mode alot and then it breaks down. Jean

Thanks in advance!

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