Life is tough with fibro for sure. I know some days I feel I just can't take it any more but I do.

I am glad you mention that it does run in my family but i would like to know the anwer

Hi Laurjil,

I can understand your frustration!
There is actually tons of studies/research being done about Fibro and different aspects of Fibro, and how Fibro relates to other diseases. Check out this website- It's PubMed. It is the US National Library of Medicine. I plugged in just the word Fibromyalgia and over 7,000 abstracts studies and experiments and research going on right now.
It's good to know that people are out there researching so many different aspects of Fibro...I think you'll find that PubMed is a great resource

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Best, LuLu

I was lucky enough to have nearly 4 great decades of being very active before I got fibro. There may be genes that get 'turned on' by severe stressors letting fibro develop, but I was born healthy.

I wish there was an answer for that. I started suffering with the fatigue, and body-wide pain, after my car accident in 2007. I would like to believe it's trauma related. I would love to know how to switch it off. Darn it! Wouldn't we all, eh??

Take care,
Hilda
xoxo

Even though I was only symptomatic beginning in 2005 after an extremely stress-filled year, I can definitely see elements of the fibro that have been there my whole life. Whenever I got physically injured as a child, it would always be much more intense than anyone else thought it should be for the injury. Since there is a genetic component and it is triggered by a trauma or stress, I would imagine that we have it our whole lives and just don't realize it because it was lying dormant.

I believe people may be born with a gene that can be "switched on" by some sort of physical trauma or illness.

I can trace the real start of my symptoms to a mystery, mono-like virus I had in my mid-30s but I had a few things going on like lack of stamina before that even though I was healthy and active.

There are actually many studies and tons of new research every day. We've become a big "market" and the first team to actually crack the mystery is going to be worth a whole lot of money.

I've participated in several studies just locally and been screened for others. There are studies in every developed country now and loads of them in the U.S.

Whatever I have, my father suffered from it to, he was always asking us for back rubs! My Mother has had Chronic fatigue for years now, so between them I got quite a gene pool!

I read somewhere that there are stages to FM. As a kid I was very athletic but never got the endorphin rush that I hear others talk about and I have ALWAYS had insomnia. As a teenager I was exhausted all the time and frequently in pain, but not always. At 20 with the birth of my first child my condition became chronic. I am inclined to believe it was always there but not always problematic.

Yes...I belief it can be passed through heredity. My mother has Polymyalgia which is in the Fibro family, and my grandfather had it on my fathers side. I don't think that heredity is the only way you can get Fibro though....

Deb

Laur, I will answer directlyto your original question.

No, we aren't born with it.
We may be born with predisposition, as we are for cancer or other ailments.
We may encounter environmental factors that trigger it, again, as with some cancers.
We may find remission through treatment, and yes, you know what I'm gonna say, so I'll skip the cancer analogy now, b/c it really kinda sucks....

BOrn? No.

Many conditions come with FM as a co-morbidity. But you can have FMS all by its lonesome. And a lot of folks have FM who had healthy normal childhoods, adulthoods, etc. SOmetimes, the whammy happens, is what I've concluded. And I think they'll one day discover subsets of FMS, as they have with many another vaugely-titled disease (biliousness in 1890 became IBS, Crohn's, colitis, etc. by 1990, for example).

OK, off my soapbox!

yeah, I believe it's in us when we are born. but it has to be switched on. The reason I believe this is I used to be involved in contact sports and I could never have taken those hits if I was already "switched on" as a teen. I would come home after three hours of it and lay on the cold floor and just be there thinking to myself, "I can't believe I'm still here." and then I'd laugh at myself.

Honey i wish we really could find that out maybe if they looked into that they might find a cure who knows. Lisa

Thx for all the replies.I think what i meant was more what Leo and some others said.More like we were born predisposed to it. You guys(girls) are great.This board is such a great support.Im soo alone.This morn.on top of fibro pain my neck is giving big trouble.Ouch

I believe that we can be predisposed to developing fibromyalgia and that it can be triggered, if the stage is set for it. I also believe that low serotonin is a factor as well.

I know that my fibro was switched on after a very bad car accident. The car accident was my triggering event.