tracyferrell
New member
- Joined
- Apr 11, 2016
- Messages
- 5
- Reason
- Undiagnosed
- Diagnosis
- 04/2016
- Country
- US
- State
- PA
Hello all,
Although I still have not been diagnosed with fibro (at this time doc just keeps claiming it's myfascial syndrome) I had yet another incident that makes me think that I may have fibro.
Being that my doctor hasn't given me any guidance or direction on how to manage my "myofascial pain", and after researching it (amongst tons of other info related to the many, many symptoms I now have), I read that one of the things to help with myfascial pain is massage, specifically trigger point or massage specifically for myfascial pain.
When I arrived at the place to get a massage, and was given the questionaire to fill out it had inquired about why I was there and what was the reason? I had stated more than once on the questionnaire which kept pointing to questions based on "conditions" that I was diagnosed with myofascial pain syndrome. In either case when the time came to have the massage I was nervous because so far I've had really bad luck at with accupucture (horror story with how much pain I endured for nothing), as well as the chiropractor (just brought on new symptoms after 5 sessions) so I made sure to tell him that "I personally believe that I have fibromyalgia", and for some reason he just seemed to skirt past the issue as he mumbled something about "well you know fibro is pretty broad in what it means and how it's viewed" or something like that....well as usual I kept my mouth shut and let him proceed to doing the massage.
I must say certain parts of it felt absolutely wonderful! But then there were other parts that were very uncomfortable but I kept telling myself "well that's just because he's doing the trigger point stuff" I mean he was litterally taking his thumbs in certain areas of my body and pushing in really really hard and I just flinched and like a fool didn't tell him to stop because I figured it was all part of the process.
Well......guess what. that one hour massage I had caused me so much pain in my entire body from head to toe that I was basically laid out flat for hours just writhing in pain until finally the doctor's office called in a scipt for prednisone and pain pills. I paid for that massage with pain and recovering for nearly 2 weeks.
Is that normal? Has anyone else had this happen to them?
Tracy
Although I still have not been diagnosed with fibro (at this time doc just keeps claiming it's myfascial syndrome) I had yet another incident that makes me think that I may have fibro.
Being that my doctor hasn't given me any guidance or direction on how to manage my "myofascial pain", and after researching it (amongst tons of other info related to the many, many symptoms I now have), I read that one of the things to help with myfascial pain is massage, specifically trigger point or massage specifically for myfascial pain.
When I arrived at the place to get a massage, and was given the questionaire to fill out it had inquired about why I was there and what was the reason? I had stated more than once on the questionnaire which kept pointing to questions based on "conditions" that I was diagnosed with myofascial pain syndrome. In either case when the time came to have the massage I was nervous because so far I've had really bad luck at with accupucture (horror story with how much pain I endured for nothing), as well as the chiropractor (just brought on new symptoms after 5 sessions) so I made sure to tell him that "I personally believe that I have fibromyalgia", and for some reason he just seemed to skirt past the issue as he mumbled something about "well you know fibro is pretty broad in what it means and how it's viewed" or something like that....well as usual I kept my mouth shut and let him proceed to doing the massage.
I must say certain parts of it felt absolutely wonderful! But then there were other parts that were very uncomfortable but I kept telling myself "well that's just because he's doing the trigger point stuff" I mean he was litterally taking his thumbs in certain areas of my body and pushing in really really hard and I just flinched and like a fool didn't tell him to stop because I figured it was all part of the process.
Well......guess what. that one hour massage I had caused me so much pain in my entire body from head to toe that I was basically laid out flat for hours just writhing in pain until finally the doctor's office called in a scipt for prednisone and pain pills. I paid for that massage with pain and recovering for nearly 2 weeks.
Is that normal? Has anyone else had this happen to them?
Tracy