What is the connection between Fibromyalgia and physical trauma from an accident?
Having been in a car accident I have been diagnosed now with Fibromyalgia (and other things were suggested) having lost partial sensations to skin,loss of one legs reflexes,muscles tone to calves of legs,back pain,subject to falls,pins and needles w/sharp pains occasionally to feet and hands.I had originally been diagnosed as having whiplash and soft tissue damage to front right hip,This other group of symptoms showed up after a couple of years.I now use a cane,and the connection is being dismissed.Is there one?
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1. Get more doctor opinions. What you describe is not fibromyalgia, which is basically muscle / nerve pain and /or extreme sensitivity to touch. Sounds far more to me like a pinched nerve or sciatica or compressed disks, but certainly related to back / spine, and could very well be related to the accident. I'm not a doc but I've been in medical field for 28 years, and I'm just sayin'. Those insurance companies will do their best to screw you so make SURE you get other opinions from good, unbiased doctors (if you haven't already). Best wishes to you Blondie, I'm very sorry to hear you're having such difficulties. HUG2. I have to agree with Helen. Fibromyalgia affects the sheathing of the entire nervous system. I suffered a neck injury at work that compressed three discs. The symptoms you describe are very much like the pinched nerves I had to endure. The pain was relieved after a C-4,5,6 fusion.
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