So reading up on Fibro, and I have most of the symptoms.
I don't remember a time where I have been pain free.
But the other symptoms I do have, how can I distinguish them from things like ADHD (fibro-fog) or (sleep problems) childhood abuse, or stiffness - back problems since 14, although would of been caused earlier than that (like at 10), (numbing/tingleness) possible nerve damage from back problems/not great circulation, etc.
Is it to necessary to distinguish what's what, for a diagnosis, since they all over lap?
I've been looking up the causes, and "not known", well aside it being pretty obvious (so I think at least)
I do have a history of emotional abuse for 15~ years, and I'm most definitely suffering from anxiety and C-PTSD. So I have the extreme stress aspect, and my body has took quite a few physical blows growing up, one causing top of my spine to be bent, landing on my head on concrete slab from 6 foot fall as a kid. (numb enough to not cry, only argh and growl through teeth through this massive heavy ache on the top of my skull)
I ask this question, as while I do have many of the symptoms, I am physically numbed from the abuse in my childhood, detached additionally, and the pain I do experience over my body in different places, comes and goes, but it could just go because i'm not focusing on it. So I can't really tell if it's constant or not, I know I have a past of blocking out/detaching/ignoring/used to pain.
I mean, my focus on things is so intense and it blocks everything out. I found myself at the counter in a store a few weeks back, and when asked by the clerk "any thing else?", when grabbing my money, I noticed I had blood dripping down my finger, only just realised I had hurt myself, and promptly asked "yeah, where are your plasters, lol".
The above happens all the time.
When I have blood taken, due to my childhood, I force myself through pain, only rely on myself, gotta "act tough", which I have my whole life, ignoring my pain, blanking it out, not reacting kind of thing, when I have blood though, I force self to focus, on the needle going in, because in my mind, to not look would be a sign of weakness to myself etc, but my point is, I can feel myself detatch, "Freeze response" even.
So if I go to my GP, and mention Fibro, I'm not sure i'm going to be able to communicate my symptoms properly and get an accurate diagnosis, due to my mental health issues blocking, hiding and always fighting it out with each other (ADHD impulse creativity say, with linear organised strictch ASD) all of it, hiding my physical pain and skewing my symptoms.
I mean the "rate pain thing", when asked I would probably just shrug indifferently, due to the above.
Is it possible for someone to have fibro and experience what I said about moments of pain, different places, but tuning out, or is a diagnosis of fibro something which has to be constant, and would override what I mention above?
Feeling kinda stupid in this post.
Sorry about the messiness of this, first time I'm learning about Fibro, and I have a lot of other overlapping and clashing disorders.
This one is a bit too much to wrap my mind around.
On that note, the symptom of headaches and fibro, I don't get headaches, had maybe 5 in 28 years, Idk though if that serious blow to the head I had when I aws 10, would result in all other lower pains in the head not register?
Which now I think about it, shouldn't I be getting headaches with trapezium muscles and neck muscles being so tight for so long?
I do have the odd pain in my head in the last year though, last 3 years have been incredibly stressful and uhm, probably damaging!
Hmm.
What to do?
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