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In reading journals, profiles and posts, I have been struck many times by the realization of how many with fibro suffered abuse as children. I know this is a major problem in society, but it seems like we here have an usually large percentage. Has anyone else noticed this? Could there be a link? It can't be the complete answer, not everyone with fibro was abused of course, but could it have contributed? And what about other stressful situations in childhood, for example, in my case I was not abused, but we moved constantly (military), we were poor, actually hungry at times, so there was lots of stress. What do y'all think?
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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...
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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!!
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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.
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.
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.