Badger
Very helpful member
- Joined
- Apr 2, 2021
- Messages
- 580
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 01/2001
- Country
- UK
Whiplash is awful for chronic pain, seems there's no respite when it's your neck or back that gets injured. I hurt my neck in a fall about 12 years ago. It left me with chronic feeling of tension headache, sensitive scalp, regular migraines, sore and stiff neck. It's been one of the worst injuries and I've lost a lot of muscle as a result. I try to have confidence in moving and lifting but the neck and head pain is very sensitive.Hi DebMarPir,
I have exactly that too, in my neck, my elbows, and my knees - can feel just like tendonitis when a flare gets going, although not always the same. Sometimes, it's more like blinding white flashes of pain if I move, and my neck locks up. Sucks! I know that I had whiplash in my neck, my knees gave me trouble when I used to run a lot, and my elbows took a pasting through years of weight training. None of the damage is bad enough to show up on a scan, but I suspect that minor damage - the kind that wouldn't be an issue for others - can be a demon for those with fibromyalgia in a flare. It's interesting, too, that different flares can ramp up different clusters/types of pain. They can certainly last for very different durations, too. I'd say that's pretty "normal" for fibro, as far as anything can be![]()
Lately my inner right knee has been very painful and is having a knock on effect on my hamstring. It's difficult to walk normally with this jarring knee pain and worrying how to manage. Since injuring both hamstrings a few years ago I've not been able to stand up for long. Fibro can leave us with some strange sensations, the back of my right leg down to the foot can feel like a nerve has been pinched.