What Exactly is Fibromyalgia Syndrome; What Causes Fibromyalgia Pain?

The Triple Whammy that Creates the State of Fibromyalgia in the Body:

I believe the three things that combine together to cause fibromyalgia are:

1. A Nervous system in overdrive (constantly in a state of fight or flight or freeze) 
2.  Muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and all connective tissue shorten at rest and with exercise in everyone, and in fibromyalgia, this shortening can be extreme
3.  Trigger points and scar tissue form in muscles and fascia from overuse, non-use, stress chemical buildup, and chronic tension

 Numbers 2 and 3 happen in the general population constantly, even in children and babies – but when combined with number 1, these 3 issues combine and create a state of fibromyalgia in the body.

Fibromyalgia is global, unrelenting pain and fatigue that can be reversed, when all three of these situations are addressed together.

My Method of releasing Fibromyalgia simultaneously calms the nervous system, lengthens the muscles and fascia, and frees the muscles and fascia from injury caused by trigger points and scar tissue.

Progress is generally gradual, over months and year but there can also be immediate relief within just a few days.

A Nervous System in Overdrive Results in Stress Chemical Buildup

Your nervous system is made up of your brain, your spinal cord, and all your nerves.  This is where all the communicating between your body and your brain and all your thinking is done.

If your mind is overactive, your nervous system is probably overactive too.  If you ever get carried away by negative thoughts or ever feel ‘swept away’ by uncontrollable reactions to events around you, your nervous system is the one really in control and running away with you.

When your nervous system is overactive, it is constantly releasing stress chemicals into your body.  If your body can’t use up all these stress chemicals immediately, they get stored in all available tissues.

When lots of stress chemicals are stored in lots of tissues, this is what happens:

Eventually, every tissue in the body is

• Crammed full of stress chemicals and a ‘carrier’ mucus
• Chronically tightened, shortened, glued-together, irritated, and oxygen-deprived

When I say every tissue in the body I mean

• Muscles
• Nerves
• Fascia
• Tendons and ligaments
• Organs like the heart and liver
• Intestines
• Brain
• Bones
• Joints
• Hair and nails

Stress chemicals: I mean hormones and substances like adrenaline and cortisol that the body releases or creates when under stress.  These substances are known to be detrimental to our bodies.

Carrier mucus: I believe that when the body stores stress chemicals in the tissues, it first creates mucus to put them in – or maybe the chemicals being combined and stored results in something we would look at and call mucus.

Muscles: When muscles are full of stress chemicals, they create trigger points and scar tissue.  They feel full and sore and don’t have full strength.  Because of this, and because of gradual disuse, they become shortened.

Nerves: When nerves are full of stress chemicals they are irritated.  Their ability to transmit electrical impulses is interfered with, and this interference is translated as pain and discomfort by the brain.  They create muscle spasms.

Fascia: When fascia is full of stress chemicals it is thick and glue-y instead of thin and supple.  It glues one muscle group to another.  It holds organs in vise grips instead of allowing them to move and do their jobs freely.

Tendons and Ligaments: When tendons (the connective tissue that holds muscle to bone) and ligaments (the connective tissue that holds bone to bone) are full of stress chemicals they tighten, shorten, and HURT.

Organs: I don’t know what organs do when full of stress chemicals, but it can’t be good.  They probably just have to work harder, further stressing and fatiguing the body.  I had palpitations for a long time and I am convinced that the main cause of the palpitations (doctors could find no reason for them) was stress chemicals in fascia surrounding the heart – or maybe in the heart muscle itself.

Intestines: When intestines are full of stress chemicals we get irritable bowel syndrome, candida, gastritis, and other intestinal distress syndromes.

Brain: When the BRAIN is full of stress chemicals we get fibrofog – aka brain fog.  (mental confusion and slowness associated with fibromyalgia)

Bones and Joints: As for bones and joints, I didn’t have any bone or joint involvement in my fibro that I know of, but I have to wonder if arthritis and bone and joint disorders have anything to do with stress chemicals stuffed into them.

Overall Body Involvement: Overall, when the tissues in the body are crammed full of stress chemicals, oxygen and nutrient absorption and utilization is blocked to some degree.  This creates pain and weakness and general illness in the tissues.

And, the Kicker: One final effect of stress chemicals stored throughout the body – and this is a big one: the body naturally tries to heal itself no matter what the situation.  So, it is constantly pulling these chemicals out of the tissues and attempting to pass them out of the body through natural elimination processes (sweat, urine, feces).

Even while we sleep, our body, instead of normal rest and repair process, is trying to get rid of these chemicals – resulting in constant, chronic fatigue.

Not only are there so many chemicals stored in our tissues that our body has to work day and night to clear them, but at the same time our body is laying down new chemicals, and at the equally same time, we aren’t getting the benefit of rest and repair that is supposed to happen at night.

→It’s no wonder we are so darned tired all the time!

 Important Information about Fascia

Fascia is the connective tissue that covers and cradles our muscles and organs.  It runs in one huge, connected, convoluted sheet throughout the body and (when functioning normally) allows muscles to glide easily across each other.

If you’ve ever handled a raw, whole chicken the slimy stuff covering the muscle was fascia.  We have that covering also and it is instrumental in the healthy functioning of our bodies.

Traditional medical thinking regarding fascia is that it is actually many sheets covering all the different organs and muscles, but I have read opinions that it is actually one large sheet that is completely connected that seems more likely to me …

And, if it is one large, connected, convoluted sheet, the implications that has on the disease of fibromyalgia are HUGE – imagine, one change or restriction in the fascia anywhere in the body could affect or be felt anywhere ELSE in the body!

It is widely accepted that the Fascia that covers muscles, then collects together and becomes denser at the end of the muscle and is then a tendon.  Sharon Butler, of selfcare4rsi.com mentions the not as widely accepted belief that the fascia then changes its structure again and becomes bone! Wow!

This fascia is really important to the way our bodies feel and function!

A Nervous System in Overdrive Also Results in Adrenal Exhaustion

Many opinions I have read about fibromyalgia and similar illnesses state Adrenal Exhaustion as a kind of umbrella cause.

Adrenals are glands located on top of the kidneys.  They create the stress chemicals I am saying are the cause of the pain and fatigue of fibro, and then they put them in the bloodstream to circulate through the body.  In short, they’ve been working very hard.

It certainly stands to reason that if so many stress chemicals are being circulated that they must be stored instead of released, then whatever organ creates the chemicals must be as exhausted as the rest of the body, and less able to create other compounds the body needs.

So if the body is getting too much of one thing, and not enough of something else, well then the problem is just compounded – and in this case the problem manifests as fibromyalgia.

I propose that this adrenal exhaustion can also be reversed, by the same processes that will clear the stress chemicals.  And then both of these processes that cause fibro symptoms will no longer exist.  And the fibro symptoms will disappear.

Other States Creating Fibromyalgia

I believe there may be other processes that we can cause fibro symptoms.  Some that doctors have some inkling of and some that no one has ever even thought of.

And as we stop doing what causes fibromyalgia and start doing what promotes health these unknown processes will clear up and become a non-issue also.  So don’t even worry about them.

A Word about That Horrible Burning-Searing Sensation on the Skin

So, if you’ve felt this, you know what I’m talking about.  When your skin feels too painful to touch.  When it feels like the area is burning and super-sensitive.

 This is due to denervation of an area.  In my experience denervation is when a muscle or muscle group loses communication with the main nerve that serves it.  The nerve is most likely squeezed in between tight, swollen muscles and fascia and so it loses its ability to communicate with the brain.

When this happens, every tiny nerve in the area becomes super-sensitive so as to pick up any signal from the brain that it can.  This is actually a good thing because we can continue to function, but a bad thing because it is so painful.

Treatment is simple: get the muscle and fascia to relax is usually enough short term.  Get the muscle and fascia and tissues to heal long term. ( Every word I put in this site is dedicated to getting muscles and fascia to heal.  there are many ways to do it.)

It may take a day for the muscle to relax long enough for the nerves to calm down.

How do you know which muscle group to work on?  Just work on the muscle group directly ‘above’ the denervation and see what happens.  Does it indeed feel tight?  Does stretching or bodywork recreate the pain to some degree?  Then you are probably in the right spot. 

 If not, you can keep feeling around to see what else farther above or off to either side or just below may be the culprit.  The more you work on your body, the more you will get a sense of where the cause is.

 The more you work on your body, the less denervation you will get.  Eventually, it won’t happen at all.

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