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From: CHI-MUM on 20 Apr 2006 20:28 My biggest question has not ever been why me, but what. What causes it. Does it start slow and get worse then even out or does it hit hard all at once. I don't know how long I've really had FMS even. -- CHI-MUM
From: Nanny on 21 Apr 2006 02:39 Could be either. My own experience was started out slow, in one area, then two, then three, etc. Full-blown and progressive over a period of 30 years. Nanny "CHI-MUM" <mNOSPAMpeagram(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:444825a1$0$15319$6d36acad(a)taz.nntpserver.com... > My biggest question has not ever been why me, but what. What causes it. > Does it start slow and get worse then even out or does it hit hard all at > once. I don't know how long I've really had FMS even. > > > > -- > CHI-MUM >
From: bluturtle@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2006 13:55 Nanny wrote: > Could be either. My own experience was started out slow, in one area, then > two, then three, etc. Full-blown and progressive over a period of 30 years. > Nanny > "CHI-MUM" <mNOSPAMpeagram(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:444825a1$0$15319$6d36acad(a)taz.nntpserver.com... > > My biggest question has not ever been why me, but what. What causes it. > > Does it start slow and get worse then even out or does it hit hard all at > > once. I don't know how long I've really had FMS even. > > > > > > > > -- > > CHI-MUM > > I used to try to figure the why me's of it all! now I know what could have contributed. Growing up in a violent home, I worked mostly, very physical none customary jobs. I used to make contact lenses, we used a chemical called trichloroethane. I found out years later it was highly carcinogenic, we used it like water. When it dried it left a powder residue we breathed that in as the ventilation was terrible. I had to have polyps removed from my sinuses twice one was cancer. I believe it was caused by the chemical I worked with but no one knows for sure. When I became a Cosmetologist, I specialised in hair colour, more chemicals. Because my husband was a fisherman, i used to go with him than I stayed home with our children. I volunteered at their school, developed a step aerobic program I thought 3 classes 3 days a week and loved every min of it. I have lived with symptoms creeping up on me over the years looking back at it all. All the things that are on the list of possible causes for my FMS it seems, I was primed for. It may be too late for me but, I know my daughters had a much much better start in life etc. than I did. I keep that thought in the back of my mind and pray they are not touched by FMS. I was born with a severe cleft palate and other conditions. Having children was a gamble, my daughters were normal in every way I feel very lucky that way. Although I suffer with unimaginable pain from FMS and Arthritis. I am relieved my children and now grandchildren live much different lives than I grew up with. lisa
From: Maureen in Mukilteo on 22 Apr 2006 00:34 Good question but no one knows the answer. It appears to a be a disorder triggered by trauma -physical or mental- in genetically predisposed individuals. Once the process is triggered, the trigger can be removed but the disorder continues. How fast it develops depends on the trigger. My FM (and migraines and pulmonary hypertension) all date from chemo I had in 1980. I think that was my trigger. Maureen in Mukilteo
From: Janey Pooh on 22 Apr 2006 07:27
CHI-MUM wrote: > My biggest question has not ever been why me, but what. What causes it. > Does it start slow and get worse then even out or does it hit hard all at > once. I don't know how long I've really had FMS even. Hi Again CHI-MUM, I used to worry so much about this - what causes it? My Mom and both older sisters had it long before I realized I did and I swore I wouldn't get it. If I could just figure out what caused it, I'd stay away from it. Easy enough. HA!! Once I realized (or admitted to myself) that I had it too, I was *consumed* with finding out what caused it in me, and how to fix it. I wasn't doing a "Poor me. Why Me?" thing - I was trying to logically *cure* myself. HA!! Didn't work. I finally started Feeling Better once I admitted to myself that I'd probably never really figure out the answers to those questions and I'd be better off trying to treat the symptoms in this case and quit worrying about the whens, whys, hows and wherefores. I believe what Maureen said - that there's a genetic predisposition which may be triggered by physical or emotional trauma of some kind (this includes exposure to chemicals - that's a physical trauma.) I had a specific trauma when I was 27 and I can pinpoint that as the cause for my *outbreak* of symptoms. But when I look back, I also had MANY physical AND emotional traumas as a child and I may, in fact, have had FM symptoms all my life. I think that one MOST horrible thing that happened to me (I was gang-raped) was like the straw that broke the camel's back. My brain couldn't take the shock of it and my immune system or whatever went NUTS, WAY WAY over-stressing and trying to help me cope. Something got 'distracted', you might say, by the stress of this incident, and my brain was left vulnerable to that genetic predisposition. My body tried to protect me from this for years and years. Then something happened that blew it all out of the water, and I got Full Blown Fibromyalgia. I try not to dwell on all this anymore though. Instead, for the past several years I've been telling myself to FORGET the WHY and focus on how to feel better. Knowing how I got it ain't gonna help me feel better NOW. What *will* help me is lowering my stress levels, feeding my body healthy nutritious foods and moving around a bit when I can (exercising, but GENTLY!!) And trying to accept that I'm not SuperWoman - I needed to change my whole way of thinking about what I could do in life, and ACCEPT that. In general, I've been trying to assist what's left of my poor delapidated system to be healthy. It can't do it on it's own anymore, so I try to help it along. Trying to figure out WHY was just stressing my system out - cuz there ain't no firm answer yet. Take GOOD Care, Jane |