OH,...It is really interesting how many of us say left. I am right handed. A doctor once suggested that the seat belt in my car did some damage during the accident that started the fibro ball rolling.

(LOL Nicaus) I get attacked from all sides, too. The pain about equally bad on both sides.

pain all over but left arm and shoulder and neck the worst weird

both sides but I guess a little more right side

About the same on both sides now, but originally it would travel, my arms would hurt, then the legs would start hurting, then the arms might be better and the feet would hurt, or the hands, one time everything hurt including my armpits! But always both sides. Wierd disease.
Judy
P.S. My masseuse told me she sometimes massaged people's armpits. Mine were swollen one time and she did them. Toxins can get trapped there, too! OY VAY!!!!!

Hi. Funny I should read this right now...I am not able to sleep...my left hip has always been the worst. I think I have every 'itis' in my left hip too. Radiculitis, arthritis, bursitis...I used to get really REALLY upset about this! My left leg and left foot and especially my left toes go numb several times per day. From the waist up, my right side is worse, I have nerve damage in my right shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand. Why? THEY DON'T KNOW. I wear braces...I am suppose to wear them every night. I stiffin up like you WOULD believe because you are my bothers and sisters who know what this hell feels like.
Hugs to all and I hope you all are able to rest peacefully tonight,
Eva

its hard to say. Most the time my upper shoulders and neck. Headaches. But I have alot of pain with my right leg and foot. Then pain in both of my arms. Oh an jaw pain and facial pain.

I am really wanting to totally go out of my comfort zone and get a massage.... considering it. I have never liked to be massaged. It hurt if my husband tried to... now I know that all those years when he'd touch me a little too hard and I'd say "OW! that HURT!" it was prob the FM.

wow, Eva! I could have written your post. My hip is my 'starting point', not that it was the first pain. I think neck pain was first. But the hip pain is VERY debilitiating! And the numbness. But not painless numb, right? Mine feels like the icy~est water has been poured into my leg, burning and numbing at the same time... And then stiffening. I stretch and twist and move like I've got nervous tics all over my body, to keep from going stiff.

Hope you do sleep well and wake well tomorrow!

Dear mj, Did you ever see if you have TMJ? That causes jaw pain and pain in the cheek. I had it for years, and it felt like a needle in my eye. Chiropractors were finally able to help me, just shoved jaw in the right place.

Narey, Thanks for the question. Interesting answers. Maybe one of us is going to strike gold and put all the many discussions together in our minds and figure out an answer. Wouldn't that be great!!??? Judy

LOL, Judy... if only... but at least we can amuse ourselves some little bit while we are all in it together! sleep well tonight!

hey, can you play the Ave Verum? sigh.....

My left shoulder, hip,leg, hand,wrist and side of neck is worse than the right. Iam left handed. Fibro started in left hand and wrist and then the right hand and wrist then neck and sternum then BAM EVERYWHERE. Then my life as I knew it was over.

Hi,

I hurt all over, and it moves around a lot, but my left side, hip, and leg has all ways been the worse from the on set.

Plus when I had surgery it was all ways the left side that needed the most work, then the right side caught up. hmmmm interesting.

Gentle cyber hugs to all, Sherrall

WOW Mine is the left , too. Left hand goes numb, left hip goes numb, both legs do too. The left side of my mouth inside gets weird throbbing pains and I feel like my gums are inflamed. I thought it was just that way because I am left handed and dominant there!

My left side has always been the side to have worse problems. Had a cyst on my left ovary, have a big cyst in my left breast currently.

The 6 times I've had Epstein-Barr Virus, the left side of my face, tongue, eye and lip has gone numb as my first presenting symptom.

So definitely--the left.

Mizroze

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