Hi, I just found this site and I have some questions. I have never been officially diagnosed with FM but my mom had her Dr. tell her that she had it. Apparantly there are no actually tests? Is that true?
I was seeing a medical massage therepist who said I had all the trigger points for FM. I have IBS with constipation and awful gas as well.

I am pregnant now and I am miserable. I love to exercise but PG makes it impossible for me. When I am not pg I manage my energy, pain and my IBS for the most part with a very vigerouse fit lifestyle and clean eating. The only problems I have usually is the tight painful upper back muscles and upper buttock muscles when I am fit. I also have noticed that my upper thighs always feel bruised. That has been going on for years.

My mom (and it seems I am following in her footsteps) had trouble with labor too. Our contractions never regulate and pitocin was necessary for 3 of her 4 labors and my first one. I wondered if the FM affected the uterus as well? Have any of you heard of this?

I do really well with caffine as I have seen some of you comment on. I need it to feel alive. I have pleanty of energy when I am able to live my normal active life, but the minute I stop, I crash. I do not have trouble sleeping normally. My eyes do get tired easily. I get headaches frequently and I have trouble increasing flexability.

I would really love some input. Thank you.

hi there, i maybe have fibro. think my symptoms started after birth. but when i loook back i had a lot of little mild one before. when i was pregnant my hips killed in bed and had to keep swapping sides. found out i had group b strep after. my labour was fine, from estabilished laboutr 2-3 cm it took 4 and half hours and my son was born, no pain relief! they say each child is different? love april x

Thanks for that, I was just curious. I have the worst pain imaginable in my hips durring pregnancy. When I was working I had to get my husband to help me out of the car when I got home. I could barely walk and was in tears. My OB said it was normal. I have never met anyone who had to deal with that intense pain. I have never been a wimp about pain, if I am crying it is bad.

What about the rest of my symptoms? Do they sound like any that you all have experienced?

In both of my pregnancies I had to be induced (water broke, but the contractions were sporadic). I pushed for 5 hours with the first, and 3 with the second...they finally had to use forceps both times, but both of my sons had heads in the 95th percentile. I had an epidural with both, which I'm sure contributed to the difficulty pushing. However, both are very healthy, and that's what matters. I nursed both times, which I think is VERY hard on the body (sleep deprivation, robs you of nutrients), but I'm hoping it will provide my sons a better start in life than I had! Oh, and my hips hurt, as did my rib cage, during pregnancy, and they still give me trouble, but not as bad.

i have the fatigue and headaches x

fitchick, HI!

Hi, I just found this site and I have some questions. I have never been officially diagnosed with FM but my mom had her Dr. tell her that she had it. Apparantly there are no actually tests? Is that true?

Yes, that is true, unfortunately. It's generally trial and error on you and your doctors part, keeping records...the only indication that is true of everyone so far, is the trigger points.
I was seeing a medical massage therepist who said I had all the trigger points for FM. I have IBS with constipation and awful gas as well.

I also have IBS with constipation and gas sometimes that make me want to move.

I am pregnant now and I am miserable.

I was very miserable during my pregnancies too...but I didn't even know what Fibro was then.

I love to exercise but PG makes it impossible for me. When I am not pg I manage my energy, pain and my IBS for the most part with a very vigerouse fit lifestyle and clean eating. The only problems I have usually is the tight painful upper back muscles and upper buttock muscles when I am fit. I also have noticed that my upper thighs always feel bruised.

I pretty much manage my pain like it's "just another day". I don't take pain killers, other than Advil....and I try mostly to put it out of my mind. Now, saying that....I will admit that it's becoming increasingly harder these days to make it so. Who am I kidding, it's impossible!!! I get bruises on my legs alot too, that worries me some, but, I heard that if you take lots of Ibuprofen, it can happen.


That has been going on for years.

My mom (and it seems I am following in her footsteps) had trouble with labor too. Our contractions never regulate and pitocin was necessary for 3 of her 4 labors and my first one. I wondered if the FM affected the uterus as well? Have any of you heard of this? Okay, this is where we sound alike. I had the same trouble, water broke, that was it. I had pitocin all three times and it was horrible. I also had 28 hours the first time, 12 hours the 2nd time, and 13 the next. I'm sure that the trauma from the labors that I endured helped in my fibro coming to fruition. It wasn't 6 months after having my oldest daughter that mine started.

I do really well with caffine as I have seen some of you comment on. I need it to feel alive. I have pleanty of energy when I am able to live my normal active life, but the minute I stop, I crash. I do not have trouble sleeping normally. My eyes do get tired easily. I get headaches frequently and I have trouble increasing flexability.

I would really love some input. Thank you.

fitchick,

I hit submit too soon. If there is anyway you can do some very non-strenous exercises while you are pregnant, it would help keep you flexible. You sound like you have a good attitude about everything, you just need to keep it up. I was told by a few women that their fibro seemed to go into some sort of remission while they were pregnant. I think the more pregnant I became, the worse I got. During my last pregnancy, my pelvic bone, where it comes together began to separate early and gawd...what a pain that was. I thought I'd never get done with that one. I don't remember having any remission with any of my pregnancies. I felt miserable all the time.

I think that there are some exercise tapes out for pregnant women. You may check your video store. Keep up the good attitude, and learn from everything that your mother does. My stepmother has Fibro too, and we share lots of ideas with each other.

Good luck :wave:

Thank you so much for the reply. I was starting to feel like the worst mother in the world for hating pregnancy so much. I love being a mom, but this is it. I wish I could afford a tubal(sp).

As for the flexability that is an all the time thing. When I am not pregnant is when I notice it. I tighten up so easy. I have to stretch long and deep every day.