[fanfaire]

This may be a weird topic, but I am just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience. I'll just start off by saying I've had fibro for 10 years and consider myself to be very knowledgeable about my condition. But at the moment, my fibrofog is horrible and I can't remember reading anything about this anywhere.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I ended up having three dental procedures, hemorrhoid surgery and a biopsy all within a two week period. The only thing these had in common is lidocaine, a local anaesthetic. I couldn't use novacaine because I react to anything containing norepinephrine.

I've had individual procedures with lidocaine before and seemed ok. But right now I'm in the worst flare I can remember in at least a year, maybe multiple years. Perhaps having lidocaine five times in two weeks is the culprit?

I would expect a temporary increase in pain after a minor surgery, which did of course happen. But the fatigue is enough to flatten an elephant, and it has not let up one bit in eight days despite good quality sleep, and neither have the incoordination or vertigo. In addition, my brain is totally zombie-fied to the point where I can hardly form a sentence verbally or written (you wouldn't believe how many tries it took to type this).

Anyone else had a rotten flare that you think was aggravated by local anaesthesia? I sooooo want my brain back.

fanfaire,
the amazing zombie woman

[fiberowendy2000]

Yes from what I understand it can happen. Not sure of the connection but I read somewhere that someone had the same problem. If you think about it, it could have been the procedure itself too that caused the flare.
I had accpuncture that caused a flare, so I know what you are talking about.
I hope you feel better soon.

[Doody]

Hi Fanfaire. I saw you in the Welcome forum, but a lightbulb didn't go on in my brain at the time.

Each time I've had surgery, my p-doc has warned me to prepare myself for a possible fibro flare afterwards. I think any kind of 'body invasion' can trigger our fibro.

I'm so sorry. This stuff is tough to live with.

[fanfaire]

Thanks for the replies. I think I would have been relatively fine if the procedures had been spread out more to give me time to recover in between. I mean, I would have still had flares, but probably not this severe.

What surprises me is that in the past year, I've been in an auto accident, injured my back in a separate incident, prepared a house for sale, packed up and moved 600 miles, unpacked and cleaned. But NONE of the flares that followed each physical trauma were as bad as the one I'm experiencing right now. That's why I wondered if the anaesthetic was perhaps adding insult to injury, so to speak.

I guess it's easy to forget how incredibly sensitive a person with fibromyalgia is to any little change. Hope I start getting back to what passes for "normal" for me sometime soon.

fanfaire,
still zombie-fied

[fiberowendy2000]

It is very easy to forget especially if you are having a good run for a while. Then boom, the FM kicks in and you are floored.
Luckily for me, the flares aren't ask bad as they used to be. I have been able to go back to work in the past month.
I hope you are feeling better.