well..not to embarrass myself...[red faced here}...but i did get squished back in the mid 90's by a tanning bed...one of those big OLD clunker kind !!..yea, was sittin up to adjust the fan before I closed the lid down when I heard this strange noise..and all the sudden my nose is touching my leg...now let me tell ya...my nose has NOT touched my leg since my high school days...and every ounce of SNOT was now dripping onto the bed..and there I sat...in a terrible state ...not quite sure how to get myself out of that position...Oh wait...the panic will set in...and there is NOTHING that is gonna hold me if I panic...and true to form...it did...and thats my story.

what was the question ?/

oh, So YES...I guess THAT would qualify me !!..kinda, whatchya think ?

Hi Patty,
I got fibro imeditaly after being hit by a truck in a crosswalk..I was hit when I was walking across the street the guy was going about 35 miles an hour.My knee was crushed and since April I have experinced many back problems..My Dr swears its fibro related..My accident was 4 yrs ago and I havent been out of pain since either.........So even though my back pain wasnt a result of the accident it sure hurts like hell now.....Hugs to you my friend

i have had a compression FX of the theT-11 spine also herniatd discs bulging discs and a syrinx..(syringomegaly) basically ther was damage to the spinal canal around the spinal cord..basically it is indented and presses on the spinal cord...they have to do mri s every year to keep an eye on it that the fluid doesnt build up or spread up to my cervical spine but if i have paralysis in legs that is the only time they will do surgery because of the fact it is very high risk area...so yea i have lots of prob. i feel for ya, in pain every single day. had a hatchback car a s the arms on the hatchback collapsed while i was reaching in to get groceries and it hurt like h***....never beeen the same suince....they dx the fibro bout year later.

well, being ocd, I like everything to add up and so I was just thinking if sometimes fibro is also a continuation of a cns injury. And I think I loved your reply because I needed a grin, and you gave me one..Many thanks to you!~

oh goodness, I don't type fast enough...the thank you for the grin was to msboni. I ain't grinning for your pain miss bug.

Holy cow, Ms Boni!!! Your nose to your leg?? Wow...
Anyway, I had whiplash injury twice within a 5 year span...both were rear-enders. Although I was treated by a chiropractor and relieved of pain at the time, my C4 & C5 in my neck are now bone-on-bone. I get epidural shots in my neck. That helps to relieve my upper body pain immensely. But I still have fibro...

I was rear-ended (by a car - lol) when I was eighteen. I was stopped and the car was going at least 45 mph, pushed me across two lanes of traffic. I had back pain for a long time after that but my fibro did not get really bad until I was in my late 40's. There is some research that shows it can be caused by physical or emotional trauma to the body/or genetics. Its hard to say. But yours could definitely be related to your accident -

Another thing? Has anyone had fibro dx where the Dr. connected fibro to an immune problem? I have autoimmun hepatits, which is where the immune system attacks the liver, and I take immuran. I swear the immuran has helped the pain of the fibro.

I myself, have been in about six car accidents (that were not my fault) and I had whiplash in all of them. Also the last one that I was in, bruised my rib cage and my right knee very bad, so bad that the bruise laster for two weeks. The most car accident was last year on Halloween afternoon.

A lot of 'experts' believe fibro starts after a physical or emotional trauma. Even a bad case of flu or other illness, or even witnessing someone else's trauma and being deeply impacted by it, can set it off. (I just had a thought, I wonder had many people have had fibro start since 9-11?) Anyway, I was attacked and had my face smashed in, but no back injury, and a lot of emotional trauma just before mine got really bad. I'm sure I'd had it for a long time, undiagnosed, but that really brought it on bigtime.Anyway, it's very likely your injury was the start of the fibro. And my face is ulta-sensitive now, so maybe the orginal injury is the area that continues to give the most trouble. Who knows?

I guess I just didn't realize how wide the spectrum of symptoms are. I think I'll be thanking God tonight for a whole lot of things...this site being one of them.

HI Ptty Drs. around here have not linked the ammune systom with fibro but i have. i was pre disposed with it and had some rear end col but it didnt come out till years later alot of stress. but my whole family on my fathers side has ammune systom problems.How crazy is that.

I think as we get better acquainted with immune failure in general, we will find out that it is behind all disease. If you can keep the immune system healthy, I think you can avoid alot of taken for granted illnesses. Just thinkin'

THAT WOULD BE ME, JUST FINISHED HEP C TX THIS YEAR...7-19-07 WENT RIGHT FROM ONE INFECTION INTO ANOTHR....TX WAS OK, BUT IT KEPT ME IN THE BED FOR 7 MONTHS TOTAL...LOVE...HELEN

I think we're hitting on something here. When I was 19 I was rear ended while at a stoplight by a fellow going 60. I had whiplash and lots of mid back pain. I went to a chiropractor many years later and got some relief. About 10 years after that, I started having pelvic pain, then low back. I was Dx with DDD. A few years of therapy...later and I had a fusion. One year later my fibro was full blown. I think I had it for a very long time but the surgery triggered it into overtime.