Yep, my ex was in the military. He retired after 20 years. Sick - I would def. have to say yes. But not what we're talking about. He was Sick in the head LOL

No, not military. My first husband was very abusive, and I am am wondering how many women diagnosed with FM are, or have been, in an abusive relationship?

In other words, could there be a link between your environment, and the onset of FM? Would I still have gotten ill, if my first marriage was happy, and my life was balanced????

Yeps Narey, STBX was in military. He's just recently had a colonoscopy and cardiac catherization. He has iron anemia that they can't find a cause for. Last time we spoke they were going to go down his throat to find cause of anemia, but I've no idea how it turned out, nor do I care at the moment :/ LMAO Julski did we marry same guy? (hugs) ladies

No military hubby here, also no past abusive relationship. Just a body that hates me. LOL

Hugs

I am not married, but my dad was in the army and he has fibro. I also found out he has mild PTSD but I don't think it's as bad as mine. He doesn't talk about any of that stuff.

Living over seas, before you go the military sometimes has the families get vaccinated and tested for different stuff.

Scootermom, I am a survivor of multiple rapes and in 2009 I was in an abusive relationship for the first part of the year. I have PTSD from all of that and I'm only 22. There is definitely a mind body connection for me as far as pain and my mental health is concerned.

I HAVE ALOT OF OLD FRIENDS THAT WAS IN vIETNAM & HAVE pstd & fibro & cff same as guys & gals coming back from these new wars all are sick thats why i think it is the VACCINES!

Interesting questions.
I'm an army brat. My dad had been vaccinated for stuff before he married my mom.

Both my parents were vaccinated for sruff when they went overseas and my mom was pregnant with me the first time they went overseas. So I don't know how her vaccination might have affected me.

We moved every three years so I know I got alot of vaccinations.

I'm hoping they get an FDA approved test for this XMRV virus soon.

I'm betting that is the cause of my health problems starting with my breast cancer. Which in a resent study they found the XMRV in 25% of the breast cancer they looked at.

If I do have this virus it would be impossible to tell how I got it.

Both my parents are veterans and had tons of vaccinations, Mom more than Dad b/c she's a nurse. Mom is healthy as a horse, Dad usually was, so dunno. But a lot of other relatives who are/were military do seem to have more issues. Dunno ifi t's the vaccines or the stress or both.

Here is my theory and my poor dh has had to contend with my (teasingly) evil eye as I have pondered it...

IF (as I believe) this illness was caused by a military/gov't created pathogen, and

IF they included vaccine against the pathogen in their routine smallpox, etc military vaccines and

IF it is contagious as has been proposed by the references I have read recently,

perhaps my husband was vaccinated against it but carried it and passed it to me. He is healthy. I am not. grr (NOT that I'd want him to have this! I just wish the whole mess had not be instigated in the first place!)

now, the other side of the coin is those military who were sent to places where these bio~garbage things were deployed... they have contracted illnesses by those routes.

add to that theory that they wanted to see if the vaccine worked so not all received the same vaccine which could be why some got sick and some didn't.

My hubby is ex Army, he was in for 10 years during the first Desert Storm, long before I met him. He is healthy, slightly high b/p, a few extra lbs caused that:D

My theory about fm is I think it is stress related, meaning when your body senses stress, you may not be "feeling" it mentally, but your body reacts by becoming overly sensitive and your nerves go wacky, causing pain and the other CRAP.

I wonder how many of us had traumatic childhoods/teen years, stressful childhood homes-abusive, alcoholic parents, abondonment, etc.

I grew up in a very stressful house, my father was dx with cancer when he was 27, I was 3, I had insomnia by 4, and an ulcer by 7. I was put on my first sleeping pill by 8 and my first diet the same year. My parents divorced when I was 9 and my father died when I was 10.Literally just writing this made my shoulders cramp up and start hurting, now I have a headache.

Just food for thought.

Hugs:D
Tammy

it is well established that stress can be one of the traumatic causative events in this illness. Interestingly, the work I just read says that the pathogen was genetically made to TARGET certain genetic predispositions, AND that it's activator is an upset to the endocrine system which can happen with stress. It's amazingly factual and scientific.