My rheumatologist hypothesizes that a lifetime of internalizing my stress and tensing my muscles may have been reason for my Fibromyalgia. I have never had a concussion, but have have experienced PTSD and emotional traumas in my life. Hope his helps.

I've had a head injury (impact to my frontal lobe [forehead] but hospital records show a fracture in the occipital lobe [base of head, top of neck]). We still don't understand the discrepency. My mother wishes that she had questioned the whole thing more and had it taken more seriously. It's been almost 20 years (I was 3 at the time of injury) so there is little we can do to find out more. Based on what she's told me of my childhood, i.e. always complaining of random pains in my body, having a more finnicky personality, being overall very sensitive, I believe I developed fibro in my childhood.

I am also very stress-reactive. I have always been a perfectionist and put a lot of pressure on myself. I hold most of my stress in my abdomen, hence the IBS. I could see where both trauma and stress could play the main roles in fibro.

I've had 3 concussions, one from a fall resulting in a minute blood spot on my brain which had to be drained - I was unconscious. The other 2 from car accidents. All in the space of the last 3 years.... As well as multiple neck & back surgeries.... I was only diagnosed a few months ago with Fibro... Who knows if they're all linked?

I have had three concussions, all from car accidents, but I don't believe they played any - or certainly not a major - part in the fibro. I believe it was years of carrying a heavy backpack followed by a solo move into my apartment, in which I carried too heavy loads.

@A MyFibroTeam Member - that's really helpful about stress. I have always tensed up with stress, and I'm usually under a great amount of stress, though I've never thought of it causing the fibro, only exacerbating it.

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