I have had pain all my life however....started before I was in 2nd grade and just got worse as I grew up. injuries would mean a sharp icrease in it. Part of it was the fact that I had/have bone malformation issues (leg bones aren't formed right/misaligned; two discs in neck are completely fused and spine over time has gotten really bad scolosis; also means I have developed arthitis).
I developed fibro from a young age I believe, not due to anything else. I was on medications first two years of my life for ear infections but until age 9, didn't take any more.

I wasn't sick before the pain so no meds. Never taken Cipro.

I have had fibromyalgia for far longer than when I was diagnosed, but I don't recall anything that really jump started it. Some doctors believe that if you have a traumatic event (such as a really bad car accident), it can cause fibromyalgia, but I really don't believe that personally. I have never taken Cipro either.

I started developing symptoms after an unidentified but mono-like virus. No meds of any kind during that time.

While I know that all drugs have side effects, I think saying we were "poisoned" might be a tad dramatic. I would have been dead at 35 if not for antibiotics.

I have no idea if I was given that drug or not. I have been given many drugs that did not agree with me and some that have helped me.
I have looked for the answer to the big question why? as well. but I do not have a solution. The accident maybe, the side effect of the pain from the accident. God wants me to have this to fight for the rights of others. I don't know.
I am passed the why and wondering how can I get better? I am told I won't so I am now trying to transition to this is who I am! This is the hardest stage for me, acceptance.

I am fascinated to see how many people are currently posting about how they are working to accept that they are not going to be cured. I am going through this (AGAIN !!!) right now. I took cipro once and I will never take it again unless I'm going to die. It could very easily have brought on your FMS. I remember the doctor telling me that they recommend that you only take cipro, like twice in your lifetime, it's so strong. NO KIDDING. You are right, right, right about how stressful it was to take it.

It didn't bring it on for me. What brought on the worst of it was the loss of a child in stillbirth, plus my father and brother had serious illnesses at the same time. My brother almost died in a car accident and I couldn't even go to see him. It was horrible. The first really bad symptom I had was the loss of my ability to remember things. It was so serious, it made me unable to do my job, although it took a few years for me to even understand it. I had always had such a good memory and was able to not only learn processes easily, I was often the person in my company to create them. Not after I lost my daughter. My brain felt really fuzzy, is the only way I can describe it. Not quite so bad today, since I barely do anything at all anymore and have as little stress as is possible in the life of a person who is, yes, still living.

Do you know about the central nervous system aspect of our illness? There is a part of the brain called the hypothalamus. That is where the condition is seated in the brain. I also have bipolar type 2, which is also a malfunction of the hypothalamus. My naughty, naughty brain. Maybe I can get a transplant sometime. ;-)

Cypro can cause joint pain that will not go away.My dr warned me about this before i took it about 10 yrs ago very un common but can happen.This is not what caused my fibro though a MVA caused mine.

I wasn't on medication prior to getting fibromyalgia, but it's interesting that there seems to be a connection for some people.

Thanks for all your responses. It is a mystery, this fibromyalgia. The info I've read on line says it does not cause inflammation. Is that true for everyone? I've had some inflammation in my fingers which my rheumatologist denied was from my auto-immune disease. Sorry if I sound cynical, but I get the feeling these doctors don't have a clue what we're going through and simply throw meds at us and send us on our way.

All my pain started when i had a strep infection 2 years ago.i didnt know I had a strep infection because my throat didnt hurt.But I had fevers and widespread joint pain.i had this strep infection for 6 months before they figured out what was wrong thru a arthritis panel test and then it showed.The strep went away but the pain never did.and now they say I have fibromyalgia.i know the strep started it.It couldnt be coincidence.

oh and yes i have inflamation.but not all the time.It comes and goes in my fingers and my knees.

My symptoms started after I finished six rounds of chemo,for ovarian cancer (taxol and carboplatin) In fact, I thought I was still experiencing the bone pain that is common with chemo. When I told my doctor, she said the bone pain should have ended with the chemo and sent me for further tests and physical therapy. Finally a physiatrist diagnosed me. He said his mother also has fibro, and was every helpful.

No, I was not on any medications or have any sickness before my pain started.

I have never been on Cipro either, so your theory does not work in my example

I have never been on cipro that i know of...but i do believe that many of the medicines can cause illnesses other than what they what the treatment is meant to treat.....while on anti depressants i had muscle, vein, joint pains severe and the doctors would give me pain meds...and all the time i was allergic to anti depressants...that went on for years....the doctors said i was having all the extra medical problems because of depression.....SO I AGREE WITH YOU...
I have lots of left over pain in my body now from this issue but now the doctors say the pain is cause i am old and arthrits...oh well

I've always said that nothing triggered my FM. I've had symptoms as long as I can remember - over 30 years. It was 15 years after the symptoms started before I was diagnosed. Of course, that happened to all of us back then. And I have no memory of any childhood trauma, physical, mental or emotional that could have caused this.

But a couple of weeks ago I learned from my mother that when I was an infant I had repeated febrile seizures. Every time my temperature went over 101 I had a seizure. If you are a parent, you know babies run fevers all the time. So now I have to wonder... seizures at that young age when the brain is forming ... could that have caused the FM?

No one ever determined a cause for the seizures, and they went away before I was 2. Back then the diagnosis often was "it sometimes happens".