WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for April, 2003: Re: Hormone changes and fibromyalgia--Dr./anyone

Re: Hormone changes and fibromyalgia--Dr./anyone

From: Richard Chudacoff, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:42:57 -0500 (CDT)

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At Sat, 12 Apr 2003, rusty wrote: >
>I've been trying to find information on any connection between
>fibromyalia flareups and changes in hormones and have had no luck so
>far. I just found out recently that I was diagnosed about 10 years ago
>with fibromyalgia but the Dr. never told me that's what it was. At the
>time I was having a great deal of trouble with mild right lower quadrant
>pain, an enlarged ovary, a ruptured cyst (all of which I was seeing my
>gyn about) as well as sleep problems, tension, muscle aches, etc. (which
>I was seeing my GP about)--the GP diagnosed the FMS. I had also just
>started taking birth control pills for the first time a few months
>before and stopped taking them about a year later. Recently I have been
>having trouble with the same pain again only this time my GP thinks I
>might be starting to go through perimenopause because of changes in my
>cycle and my period. I've had problems once in a while with minor aches
>and pains since the first diagnosis, but usually not too major and
>usually short-lived, until my problems with cycle changes, etc. started
>in Sept.--and they've only gotten worse. I've had severe neck stiffness
>and muscle pain, as well as lower back pain with ovulation, over the
>last couple of weeks in addition to the other problems.
>
>Long story, short questions!
>Is it possible that a change in hormones, either natural or because of
>BCP's, could cause a flareup of symptoms in women with fibromyalgia?
>Could fibromyalgia cause pain that might be mistaken for ovary pain?

Yes it is possible

-- Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG Chudacoff Obstetrics & Gynecology, PLLC Sugar Land, TX

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