Fibro what????
By p1kef1sh
@p1kef1sh (45681)
December 17, 2011 2:32pm CST
For the past 6 weeks or more I have been experiencing abdominal and rib pains. The pain is sometimes stabbing and at other times feels like it is running around my innards. I have had a Kidney scan and will have a gall bladder scan on the 23rd. I sleep well usually but wake with a twinge somewhere usually. However, somebody suggested that I might have fibromyalgia and perhaps IBS. I had IBS 20 years ago and "grew" out of it. I know that here in the UK Fibromyalgia is not a common diagnosis, but that in the US it is much more widely known. I am not looking for an opinion, but if you are a sufferer what were your symptoms and how were you diagnosed? I am male by the way.
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
17 Dec 11
pikey Ibs gives you excruciating pains in your tummy as its an irritable bowel syndrome. Normally a person does not feel
'the normal peristalsis of ones bowels but some do feel it and its darned painful like a series of cramps in your stomach.
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
17 Dec 11
hi pikey onh my you would know it if you had gallstones as they really hurt like something rolling around in your innards stabbing you. but the surgery now days is really neat, yu have a small incisions and the doctor inserts a little lamp magnifier and snip snip your gall bladder and stones are gone. bandaid surgery they call it with just four pins that are taken out in a few says.you can go back to work in a week. I do not know about fibromyalagia although its common here,I do hav arthrities. I had ITS but that was long ago. I do have diverticulitis but as long as I do not eat seeds or seedy fruits I am okay I learned the hard way two pint cartons of black berries fresh and two days later I woke up bleeding profusely from the rectum, and was hospitalize for almost a week. I had lost so much blood I had to have four blood transfusions to get my red blood cells up to normal they decided it was from my diverticulitis and eating something sharp that cut into an artery. they gave ma a barium enema and that stopped it by removing the clump of sharp seeds. but I never had fibromylitis.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
20 Dec 11
Diagnosed via trigger points (I was sensitive in a majority of 18 places that they check). The main symptom was really bad upper back pain that didn't respond to physical therapy. Exercise and trigger point injects are what got it to the point where I could tolerate it.
@yoyo1198 (3641)
• United States
18 Dec 11
I have chronic pain, but I know its cause. Nothing in the fibro line or BS though.
I've never heard of a man diagnosed with fibromyalgia. It seems that more women have that predisposition. Sometimes the physicians put that tag on when they can come up with nothing else. "Got pain I can't figure out? We'll call it fibro."
IBS, diverticulitis (or -osis), intestinal polyps or just plain old constipation can cause these sharp stabbing pains. I'm sure there can be more reasons, just can't think of them right now.
You're doing the appropriate thing by seeing a physician and getting a workup.
