FMS from Trauma IS VERY REAL

FMS due to Trauma is a very real thing.  I am living proof.  This is my story.

I used to work as a Cerifed Nursing Assistant in a large nursing home.  I took care of 15 total care patients per shift.  It was a very physical job which I enjoyed doing. I had a boyfriend at the time who, it turned out, was cheating on me with my best friend.  I eventually found out about them which doubly broke my heart.  He felt guilty and turned his guilt into anger.  About a week later, I was in a local pub waiting for some friends to take me to a party (to try and get my mind off of my sadness,) and my ex walked in.  He started in with taunts, escalated to yelling and calling me horrible names, and ended up kicking my stool out from under me.  I went down on a stone floor on my lumbar spine and passed out.  I wasn't breathing. Thankfully, there was a registered nurse there who got me breathing and called 911.  My ex ran away and hid from the police.  Luckily, I didn't break my back but I have damage to the soft tissue and chronic swelling of the myelin sheath the surrounds the spinal chord (which is an extremely painful condition and there is no surgical solution, only pain management.) So, couple the physical trauma with the emotional trauma and there you have it.  The onset of Fibromyalgia was very severe.  I became paralyzed on my whole right side with no idea why. I was hospitalized for three weeks doing physical and occupational rehab twice daily while they tried to diagnose me.  While in the hospital, the illness attacked my nervous system in another way as well-through my teeth and gums.  The pain was unbearable and I was given morphine. 

When I was released from the hospital I was able to stand and shuffle with a walker but basically was stuck in a wheel chair.  I spent the next couple of years pretty much drugged up and in bed. The doctors had me on so much medication that I couldn't function. I went out to go to doctors. The FMS attacked my urinary tract, my gastro-intestinal tract, my liver and continues to this day to attack my nervous systerm.  There is more but I am too tired to continue due to the ME-CFIDS that came along with the FMS.

Thanks for reading.