Difficult to diagnose Fibromyalgia, but what about the Covid Post-Vaccination Syndrome?

[SBee]

Very well put @Harpy. ' "you get better, I won't" the word chronic I think can be misunderstood,maybe seen more about the severity of a condition as opposed to the continuous ( dragging) lenght, may begin using a term like long term condition or similar.

 

[Harpy]

Yes that’s true, definitely life long condition as it has no end.

 

[sunkacola]

I think sometimes it's very difficult to draw lines between what is caused by the pain we are in and what is depression and what is influencing what and which way it is going. Since the brain and the body are not in any way separate from one another, t here's really no way to distinguish or know for certain. Being in pain can mean not doing the things that might make a person feel better emotionally, like having a clean house or going outside for an activity or seeing friends, etc., increasing the probability of depression. And being depressed can mean the same things. And I think that being depressed can possibly also create pain in the body as well.

Although I have not had fibromyalgia or any other form of chronic pain all my life, I have been depressed for most of my life, and I am as sure as I can be without solid medical proof that this has contributed to my having fibromyalgia now. But of course, that leads one back to the roots of the depression, which are likely to be in personal trauma and generational trauma, as well as possibly genetic. So around it goes, what caused what. I suspect that if the human species manages to live long enough these things may eventually get parsed out, which could help a great deal with treatments, but it is not likely to happen in my lifetime.

 

[Harpy]

But of course, that leads one back to the roots of the depression, which are likely to be in personal trauma and generational trauma, as well as possibly genetic.

I do agree with this part about personal trauma. I was first diagnosed with lumbar instability in 1983 when I was 19. Then a quad bike accident in 2002 and the car accident in 2011 . So I can say I been in pain then agony at lot of my life . Then the trauma of loosing my month old grand son 6 years next week. I have a very large family and don’t know any of them having depression.

 

[sunkacola]

@Harpy I'm so sorry about your grandson. That's just awful.

One thing I think still needs to change....although at this point things might be heading in the right direction....is people's understanding of just how thoroughly debilitating depression is. Honestly, if people only knew. It is every bit as much a disability as having fibromyalgia is, and possibly more so than many purely physical disabilities for which people are able to get disability payments.