Its possible hon. I think that people who have had to constantly keep on their toes so to speak end up with all types of problems. So, fibro may very well be one of them.

when i did y survey i also noiced that most women with fibro had a stressful event or events in thier life before they were sick. i think stress has a lot to do with it. yet some people say that they didn't have any kind of stress at all. so there you go. good observation though. i have thought the same thing myself.

I grew up around fighting verbal abuse and just plane meanness do to alcohol abuse So I would say because of this Caused trauma and much mental dysfunctions on my part. Also living in hard times when good meals were hard to come by

If Fibro is brought on by stress, whether emotional or physical, then I would say probably so. My therapist said Your childhood never really leaves you.

since trauma is a cause i do believe any of it could cause fibro... stress, verbal,physical,mental abuse . i suffered a traumatic event that really kicked mine in even though i know i had it long before then . its always that one thing that makes it full blown..**hugs**

I think that I read that somewhere, Ladybug, that childhood trauma is a contributing factor.
Before the age of 5, my mother ignored me & would go out drinking, my father died & no one told me (I figured it out, kinda, when they took me to see him in his coffin before taking him to burial) & I was molested by a family friend. We also moved alot. I went to five different elementary schools.
So, there ya go...kinda screwed up for life.

I too had a fucked up childhood and i often wonder if there is a missing link there I know we are on the right track when we talk about stress and how it plays a major factor in our disease!!!!

Yeppers, Ive noticed that too! It would seem that we never felt safe enough, to let our muscles, tendons & ligaments relax enough to have the badly needed fexability become part of the finished product. And in many cases used up what emotional stores of energy we were born with long before we had any control over our feelings of security & safety!!

I know that I was abused by my brother when we were young since we shared the same bedroom. I know that my dad never did abuse me since he would never do such a thing. I love everyone and I am glad for the love and support here on DS.

I have alot of stress dealing with all of my son special needs,and years of fighting with school districtsand finally my stress ended when i home schooled my son

What happens to a Body when the Heart is Broken?

Does the Pain seep from your
Heart?
Constant Fear...what does it do to A Body ?
How many Beatings can a person withstand before the Bodys Pain is never ending ?

I have had it all...every type of Abuse...I asked this question when I was on another site..."what was going on in your life Before you got Ill"...I got almost 1000 replies...over 90 percent were abused...the rest had had some typ of emotional/physical Trauma before the onset of this DIS-EASE...so it is just my Personal Opinion...but I do Believe there is a connection...oes the body become depleted of something ?...are we jus always standing ready for a fight ?...cause let me tell you m muscles are s tight I have had them seperate...mostly in my legs, and neck...and my reaction time is Right Now..
at tis point in my life I can handle NO stress...and I know I am an emotionally Strong woman...but get me upset and I am sick...or I break out in Hives...or my toes turn Blue...or my occular Migrains kick into high gear...tho they are not painful there is nothing you can do when they hit because your vision goes screwy...
I am Very OverReactive to even small events...I shake hard...even my jaw will shake...
so lets LOOK at it from this angle...what do we do about it ??
what is it we need to do to replenish our bodies to stop the pain ?? do we need to find forgiveness...true forgiveness ?? cause I just do not believe that anti depressants are gonna cover the pain up...there has to be something...somewhere SOMEONE who knows the ANSWER to these Questions...
I am not a Depressed person...tho I do have depressive episodes...who wouldn't ?/.being in pain all day everyday for the very rest of your life ?
and then what Causes the remissions ?....cause in August of 2006 I had 6 days were i felt completely Normal !! I even ran !!...not an ounce of pain ANYWHERE!!....was the first time my husban had seen that and he actually cried in hopes that my pain was OVER!!

Ok, this got Long...and I am starting to get upset...I just want it to STOP...we need to find a way to heal our Spirits to heal our bodies...just a shot in the dark, but most treaments are and it certainly wouldn't Hurt anything to try to Heal your Spirit...even if it makes no Difference to the body...
I hav no hatred toward the man who raped me as a child...I feel a saddness for him actually...just an old man that worked at the school i went to...he was like a child himself...he to had to have been tormented...
I do hve hatered for the ones who hurt me as an adult...I am a good person, I could have been so much more in my life...Love can be a very Selfish thing...Love can be mistaken...Love can really hurt.

Boni, sweetie, I am so sorry for your pain and suffering. I think we all know those feelings all too well. I would like to just offer you one little bit of advice ('cause I'm old and wise, lol), in your response, you said you have forgiven the man who raped you, but you hate those who have hurt you as an adult. Forgiving those who hurt you is very difficult, believe me, I know, but it is so important to do, not for their sake but for our own. Forgiveness is not the same as condonning what was done, it is not saying what that person did was ok, it is not minimizing the hurt or the actions that caused the hurt. It is more saying, I will let go of the hate. I will no longer allow it to eat at me, or control me, or torment me. No one on the face of the Earth can change what is already done. We can only accept that which is, and change the way we allow it to affect us. If you have read my profile, you know many of the hurts of my life. One I did not detail there was the death of the man I was once engaged to. He was a wonderful man, everything I wanted a husband to be. One beautiful Spring morning, he went to help a friend. His friend was scheduled to testify in an upcoming trial as a witness to a crime that had been committed. My beloved had nothing to do with it at all, he had not seen the crime, nothing. But while he was with his friend, they were abushed on a lonely gravel road, and both shot and killed. They were left to die, alone in the dirt. Hate? I don't think I knew the true meaning of the word before that. But I came to realize that the monster who took those lives was also taking mine, because I was consumed by the hate. I made up my mind that HE WOULD NOT DO MORE DAMAGE TO ME!! So, with a lot of prayer and struggle, I forgave him. I let go of the hate. I set myself free! It made my life better, and freed me to find love again. I urge, you, beloved, if you can, please forgive those who hurt you. Not for them, but for you. Love and hugs

I was not abused as a child, however after marrying my high school sweetheart, he joined the service, i moved with him to the base he was stationed at. Got prego after a few months and he turned into a completely different person. He started physically abusing me, also emotionally and mentally. I couldnt handle him being gone for weeks at a time. I new know one and was there all alone and prego. Then he got sent to war in 1990. He was there fighting for a year and a half. Desert Storm really screwed me up. I sat glued to the Tv and wouldnt leave the house in fear id miss his call. I cried every day, fearing he would not come home alive. Then when he did come home, 4 days later he literally beat the shit out of me. I managed to get to the phone and called a neighbor, i then packed my clothes and my then 2 year olds clothes and came home. This is where ive been ever since. Ive never been in a car accident, so the only trauma we can think of that would have caused all of this is his physical and emotional ause. He broke a broom over my back when i was 7 months prego. He used to pick me up and throw me into a wall.

I am ok, he now lives in this area and does see my oldest. We do talk, but he can talk better to my hubby than to me.

Of course him and i have never discussed any of this but this is the only thing we can think of that would have caused my fibro.

We dont know if its hereditary because we dont know any extended family or know if anyone on either side has this disease.

Sorry i took up so much space about this.

Really, im ok and its in the past, i dont dwell on it or hate him. He is my sons father.

It's estimated that 80% of the population has had some form of abuse in their lives. I think it's a good idea to work through your issues and forgiveness is important and so is the anger. I feel strongly however that many in the medical community including health and disability insurance companies would like nothing better then for this to be labeled a head disease not a physical disease. Please before we start going down this path please know that this will be used against us should we seek help by unscrupulous greedy people. I know my disease was caused by a biopsy clip made in part from nickel and I was highly allergic to nickel. Mold grew in my breast. It had nothing to do with my past or any abuse at all.

Sharon,
I most certainly do not believe, and did not intend to imply, that this is a "head disease". According to the latest research studies I've read, findings seem to point to a possible genetic link (which is evident in my family), and emotional or physical trauma and viral illnesses as the catalus for the onset of the disease.Other studies show a nureo connection, but I have not seen anything in the recent past that indicates this is a physc disease, tho that was believed to be true at one time. I think that theory has been completely debunked.