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Well after reading many, many posts Ive come across a situation that was mentioned a couple of times. That being this, after some traumatic health episode where the person gets real sick or hurt for some reason, the FM / CFS symptoms set in afterwards. I will not go into my history again, that can be read from my profile and introduction letter, but there was an incident a little over 5 months ago I didnt relate.
Long story short, I was making myself work in the back yard on a very large oak tree that uprooted about a year before. I was standing on a limb about four feet above the ground using a chainsaw to cut another limb. Well the saw got stuck, so I repositioned myself and was standing there thinking about my next move when I slightly lost my balance, then my right knee gave way on me. That is the third time in my life that knee twisted on me, once when I was 17, then when I was 28 and now that Im 51. It was totally the Grace of the Lord how I fell and where I fell. I fell between all the limbs flat on my back without falling on anything other than the ground. So I didnt get impaled or break any bones. I came up without even a bruise or a scratch. However, my knee was messed up again and since then the all over muscle pains and fatigue have become much worse than before the incident. Especially the all over muscle pains.
So I am open for comments on this, and thank you for the time you took to read my post.
Long story short, I was making myself work in the back yard on a very large oak tree that uprooted about a year before. I was standing on a limb about four feet above the ground using a chainsaw to cut another limb. Well the saw got stuck, so I repositioned myself and was standing there thinking about my next move when I slightly lost my balance, then my right knee gave way on me. That is the third time in my life that knee twisted on me, once when I was 17, then when I was 28 and now that Im 51. It was totally the Grace of the Lord how I fell and where I fell. I fell between all the limbs flat on my back without falling on anything other than the ground. So I didnt get impaled or break any bones. I came up without even a bruise or a scratch. However, my knee was messed up again and since then the all over muscle pains and fatigue have become much worse than before the incident. Especially the all over muscle pains.
So I am open for comments on this, and thank you for the time you took to read my post.
With me it was black mold exposure. It doesn't take much, does it? And we find ourselves if worse trouble than before and no way back out of it.
Keep your chin up and carry on,
Mizroze
Hope you feel better soon.
Take care gentle hugs
I also agree with others you might want to get checked out to make sure nothing got broken or fractured.
Sending Hugs and Prayers that you feel better soon
I also had surgery before my head injury, and that sent me into a flare, too, but I did get back to a point of normalcy.
So in my experience, fibro can definitely get worse after a surgery, injury or illness.
I hope you get to feeling better soon.
Hope you feel better!
That was years ago - now I have a hip that's trashed and I'm worried I'm going to need replacement surgery. I hear so many stories about people coming out of surgery much worse, and even some whose fibro started right after surgery. I think that's why I've put off talking to my doctor about my hip.
Sorry this happened - glad you weren't hurt worse!
so a knee accident not recent but last year!? did you ever have surgery! It could be from that also not just the knee accident!
havin surgery is trama too! or as others have mentioned could be a "VIRUS"
This assumption is based on my experience relating to a mirror accident . A huge mirror shattered and puntured my thigh. That was some seriously searing pain and seeing layers of skin straight down (plus the blood) had me close to passing out.
For many weeks after the mirror incident, the Fibro pain and tenderness was substantially worse. I know I tensed up from the injury pain (my headaches worsed as did my TMJ) and I assume all 18 of my affected trigger spots got 'squished' by the tensed-up muscle.
I'd think you would've responded to your knee pain by involuntarily tightening every muscle. Do you think that this may be the cause of your worsened Fibro/muscle pain?