Originally Posted by LiveLoveandTrust

I'm no stranger to chronic pain. In fact, I have three different diagnoses that can cause chronic pain but it seems that the fibro is front and center.

Over the past 2 weeks, I've had bronchitis. It's getting better and I'm down to just that nagging cough. On Saturday, I coughed (not even very hard) and felt a snap in my back then very strong pain down my arm and under my left shoulder blade. I went to the ER and they said that it was just muscle spasms (incorrect, my muscle spasms were there for years before this happened) and if it didn't get better by Monday (yesterday) that I should go to my PCP and get an MRI ordered to check for a bulging disk.

It still hurt yesterday, and I had an appointment with my PCP today. This morning (before seeing my PCP) I coughed again and the exact same thing happened- only on the right side. My PCP said it was NOT a bulging disk and it was just fibro pain.

My fibro pain has always been a deep, nagging, aching pain all over. This is sharp and "bruised" feeling and when I cough I see stars- it's terrible. Now it's causing pressure at the top of my buttocks and pain down my leg. A lot of the pain is around the back of my armpits and down my upper arms. This, to me, sounds like a disc problem which sounds weird but I also have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome that causes extreme hypermobility- including in my spine so it is possible that I coughed a disc out of place.

But, I'm not a doctor. Could this really just be fibro pain? Has anyone else experienced something like this?