what i have noticed is the following:
it is indeed difficult to tell which pains come from a fibro situation.
pain from new injuries are probably pretty clearly not fibro related (i.e. i came down hard on both knees in a fall, and they both still hurt long after. I had no knee pain before, but had Fibro, so obviously i just hurt myself during the fall)
However I have noticed that OLD injuries and pains surface more during a fibro surge--a twisted ankle from 12 years ago for example, that leaves me in peace most of the time-as well as other painful areas, which re-appear and become almost intolerable during a surge.
The nerves on my elbows, a certain spot on the sacrum, and other spots, 'light up' with strong pain signals to the brain.
Its like my body during a surge becomes a glowing map of everything that has ever happened to it. This usually happens at night. If I'm able to catch up on the sleep in the morning, I can wake up with hardly any of the nights pain, the extreme pain of the night just a memory.
It is not as cut and dry as Annette above implies, because I feel that we "heal" differently, and every thing that happens to our bodies creates a deeper pain memory, which even after healing tends to be rekindled.
certainly it would be good to get your ankle checked again, in case you have in fact re-injured it. If your xray or exam compares similar to your exam results following the injury 3 years ago, you'll know that something has retriggered the pain(fibro) but no further damage has occurred.
any thoughts, or perhaps someone else has a similar take on this reappearing injury pain?

Yes, I’m having issues with that. I am waiting for my third ankle surgery. This time , I’m hoping it will be an ankle replacement. Meanwhile I developed shingles three weeks ago. The ankle is bad when the whole body seems to be on fire. Is it referred pain from the ankle or fibro? The whole body flares up when the shingles is bad. Is it fibro or a shingles effect.. What is triggering what?

I think it's both, I did hurt my knees and ankles years back, but they tend to flare up sometimes and get sore and burn.

I have found using those electric shoke thing put pad on spot low wattage and it has helped me deal the the pain i have.minamizes it alot might help u

jgteakitty
It's probably both! Fibro pain on top of your old injury. Believe me, I talk from experience. The fibro pain intensify's the old injury pain. It's horrible. Dealing with one is bad enough. Then having to deal with the fibro pain on top of it all... 😔😞😣😮😬
Try and take it easier the next couple days. And rub some aspricream on your ankle. Back of your leg. Ice works great too. At least for me it does for a little while. My hands hurt so bad right now. Super tight. Swollen. Throbbing. Burning. Anyway...
Gnite. Hope you sleep well. God bless. 🙏☁🌠☁🌙😉