Thank you for this opportunity to voice my experience and concerns with what has been a 20-year pain fest with what is known as fibromyalgia. What seems to be the common denominator in my case with this "condition, since no one seems to be able to classify fibromyalgia in any medical term of body ailment. My belief is: It all began with a major surgery 20 years ago... a few months after I began to experience a continuous pain throughout my body, especially on the outer peripheries of the arms, legs, and across the mid-secsion of the back... oddly, on the top of my head in a horseshoe shape...starting from the Occiptical area, and along the Temparal sides of the skull...when pressed on these areas, it is if I have brused them. To add a level of curiouity to this, I had two other surgeries: one, I experienanced no pain for almost 9 months and the thrid gave me a 3 month reprive of any pain... Both came back within those time periods. However, a fourth, under general, did nothing to change the pain. My thought on what brought this condition on is this: When in surgery, under general anaesthesia; nerve signals are blocked from reaching the brain, preventing the sensation of pain... my thought is... the system never quite returns to it's full working state
It's my take on why I sufer from this awful ... and unclassified "condition." Be well. 🤔 😌 🫱🏽‍🫲🏽