Fascia

[Sandra]

Hi all hope everyone is doing ok. I have a topic that I would like to know more about. First at times I hurt allot, for no apparent reason. My body feels like my muscles are drawn up and tight. I was in an auto accident a year ago and have been doing physio on my neck since. Sometimes the pain is soooooooo bad. I end up with mammoth headaches shooting from the base of my skull, I am told it is inflammed nerve endings. This gives me all kinds of miserable issues, painful eyes, double or blurred vision, painfull jaws, face, and stabbing pain inside my ears.
Now since the physio I have also learned about the fascia, I feel like it has been a eureka moment regarding my muscle/body pain. I was in the ER once (one of many times) with a kinked back the DR told me he felt it was muscular and that my muscles didn't move well because of the dryness. Sounded wierd but I think he was right he just didn't elaborate.
So physio now tells me that what he meant was that the dryness stops normal movement of muscle and tissues and the fascia. This totally makes sense as I know when I hurt that I haven't hurt anything it just starts....and it starts when I am really having a bad dryness flare.
So my question is have any of you experianced this tight, painfull "drawn up" feeling? Have you been treated for it and how with what? I drink gallons of water but I do beluieve at tinmes it can actually make things worse because of the elimination of minerals etc....Have any of you used a vitamin, mineral, oil what ever that helps to lubricate the tissues? Would live to know more about this. Thanks Sandra

[Linda196]

Sandra, part of every deep massage treatment I have (and I have them every 4-6 weeks) is myofascia release. My therapist does it almost routinely for pain relief.

This is about the most informative site I could find about it, so please forgive the marketing part of the site. http://www.myofascialrelease.com/mfr/mfr_what.asp

[faithful]

Sandra, this explains what I have been experiencing all along.  My doctor thinks it is an anxiety disorder and has put me on Klonopin.  My head down to my chest at times feels so tight and drawn up.  THe pain is really bad at times esp as evening comes on when I literally start drying up. My eyes are unbearable.  My neck and head crack. My throat, jaws and even ears all feel dried out.  I have lost my sense of taste b/c my mouth and tongue always feel scorched.  So, dont have much of an appetite anymore.  Cooking used to be one of my favorite pastimes....have three big boys.
None of my doctors know how to treat this. THey dont even acknowledge it.  
I do take Evoxac and it helps a little.  I was hoping by now the Plaquenil would have kicked in. Ive been on it now for almost five mos.  Maybe it still may kick in. Sure hope something does.
Let me know if you find something to work.
Faithful

[aprildawn]

Me too!!!!!  what else is there to say!

April

[ktfabian]

I have also been told I have myofacial pain syndrome.

I had a spinal cord stimulator put in back in 1997, and the doctor put the lead that went into my spine up between my shoulders wrong.

It took about another year of horrible pain before someone discovered the mistake and put a new lead in the right way, but the damage was done.

Now, no one can say for sure, but the areas around the many, many scars I have on my back will become swollen, tight and very painful, and I have to wonder if it's the same thing.  I go to a massage therapist 2 days a week, and she often works on stretching the scars to give me some relief.

This  probably comes from the category of more information than you need to know...but despite being what most store would call a "plus" sized woman, I can't wear a bra most of the time because the scar from the incision used to put the lead in wrong, take it out, replace it, replace it again when it broke, then 2 surgeries to take everything out when I finally said "enough", runs right along the line that the hooks from a bra run.  I've tried front hook bras, sport bras, you name it, when that area is upset (which is about 90 percent of the time) forget the bra.  And my underwear is usually 2-3 sizes larger than I need because of the scars at my waist.  My back is just one big aching scar.

Tracy

[LenV]

Tracy,
Try one of those stretchy cotton camisoles with the shelf bra.  My back is broken about where you fasten the bra.  So i can't wear a regular bra.  The cotton camisoles bought in one size smaller than I'd normally buy works really well for a bra and doubles as a blouse under an open front shirt.  Very comfy.

Billye