[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