anyone have pain as a child - Fibromyalgia Message Board

girl75 · 01-27-2007, 11:16 AM

i know we have talked about this before but i was curious about it again.
i want to know from the vets as well as the fabulous newbies.

for me i can remember waking up in the middle of the night when i think i was 7 or 8ish with really bad cramps in my legs. growing pains or whatever it was it really hurt.
in the 7th grade, i think i was 11, i remember sitting in my desk chair when the bell rang and i went to get up and i couldn't. i had the worst pain in my lower back ever. i had to sit there for a couple minutes and get up super slow.
it kept hurting and my mom took me to the doctor. he felt my back and prescribed me meds. till this day i still get that pain and it is more like in my hip, buttock area. i was also dx with scoliosis. it isn't that bad of a curve, no brace or anything.
now that i sit here and read up on fibromyalgia it is all making sense.
i worked up until 2003 when i couldn't tolerate the pain anymore but before my injury in 2002 i was super woman. i would even work up to 2 jobs at times. i worked at a chiropractor for 6yrs and took care of patients with back problems. i took care of everyone around me. maybe i over did it or i wonder if all this would have happened anyway. when this all started i was dx with a herniated and 2 bulging disc in my neck after an on the job injury. there was also a hand full of other dx on my whole spine.
who knows, i thought maybe this would help someone while on their journey.
luv always,
robin

Kutztown07 · 02-06-2007, 08:45 AM

I can remember having pain in my knees as a child about age 10 and on. Also, had a lot of tension headaches. In 1980, I was injured on a ride at an amusement park which was the beginning of chronic pain syndrome, I was 25 at the time. When I was 33, the pain started in my leg. it was off and on for many years. Now the pain has spread to other parts of my body. I was told in May 2006, that I had fibro, which I think I had for many years. As you can see pain has been with me for most of my life. To some extent I have became friends with it! (hopefully). Something we all have to live with.

pa235 · 02-06-2007, 09:28 AM

I had what was referred too as growing pains about the age 9, My legs use to ache so bad when I went to bed I would cry. I remember my mother saying all kids get that, but there 8 children in our family and no one else got them. After about a year that eased and cannot remember having any problems until I was in my late 30"s and started getting rib pain and pain from the center of my chest to my shoulder, this would all come and go. Sometimes painfree for months.

I was a nursing assit. in a nursing home and was put in a head lock, had shoulder, neck and upper arm pain and all of a sudden, chest, ribs and than the lower half of me joined in.

Hey Kutztown there is a town not far from me with your name, there is a small college there.

Hugs, Linda

KittenPaws · 02-06-2007, 10:33 AM

I had "growing pains" (or so my dr called them) since i was about 7 until well...today (im 23) and i havent GROWN in over 7 years! I also had "tendonitis" in wrists/ankles, "overuse syndrom" in my knees and back pain (chiropractor was my friend...still is!). I pretty much think they guess whats wrong then shrug it off cuz your a kid. I was DX'd with Fibro in Nov 2005.

kathyd · 02-06-2007, 08:27 PM

I, too had "growing pains for several years in my childhood. I also was very prone to "charlie horses" in both of my calves until I was probably in my mid-20's. I have lupus that has been in remission and I was just recently diagnosed with fibro, but have had the pain and other symptoms for at least 18 years.