Anonymous
12/01/2025 05:58
Subject: extreme tenderness all down the sides of my torso
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the answers and additional questions.
No fever, redness or rash, this is a tissue thing, so if I poke my side, all the way from the armpit to the waist there is tenderness.
No new meds, activities, no change with deep breathing.
Its also not constant, just on occasion.
I am wondering if it's the start of fibromyalgia and I am dreading that possibility.
I have chronic nerve pain and when I poke my arm or torso I feel pain.
Do you know the cause of the chronic nerve pain? This is OP I have several (benign) brain tumors but so far they have mostly only affected my vision.
I think it's a decade of severe stress (suicidal kid, etc) and my nervous system feels constantly under attack. I am dodging a fibro diagnosis because there isn't a cure anyway. I take gabapentin on bad pain days and it helps. I've had a lot of therapy and I've been doing a lot of mindfulness type stuff to try and calm my body down, but I find that as soon as things get stressful (Thanksgiving, for instance) pain comes back. So it's not "in my head" but it is in my brain.
OP here, thanks for the reply. It sounds like your'e doing everything you possibly can to manage it.
Anonymous
11/30/2025 16:41
Subject: extreme tenderness all down the sides of my torso
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the answers and additional questions.
No fever, redness or rash, this is a tissue thing, so if I poke my side, all the way from the armpit to the waist there is tenderness.
No new meds, activities, no change with deep breathing.
Its also not constant, just on occasion.
I am wondering if it's the start of fibromyalgia and I am dreading that possibility.
I have chronic nerve pain and when I poke my arm or torso I feel pain.
Do you know the cause of the chronic nerve pain? This is OP I have several (benign) brain tumors but so far they have mostly only affected my vision.
I think it's a decade of severe stress (suicidal kid, etc) and my nervous system feels constantly under attack. I am dodging a fibro diagnosis because there isn't a cure anyway. I take gabapentin on bad pain days and it helps. I've had a lot of therapy and I've been doing a lot of mindfulness type stuff to try and calm my body down, but I find that as soon as things get stressful (Thanksgiving, for instance) pain comes back. So it's not "in my head" but it is in my brain.
Anonymous
11/30/2025 16:26
Subject: extreme tenderness all down the sides of my torso
Anonymous wrote:My whole body becomes very tender to the touch when my ferritin is low. Even pressure from lying on it to sleep hurts as does bumping it or taking clothes on and off. My whole body becomes hypersensitive and tender. Taking ferrous fumarate fixes it.
That's interesting because I had neuralgia like this when I was postpartum in my 30s and my doctor was dismissive and attributed it to stress (and it eventually went away) but I have always been borderline anemic.
Anonymous
11/30/2025 14:49
Subject: extreme tenderness all down the sides of my torso
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the answers and additional questions.
No fever, redness or rash, this is a tissue thing, so if I poke my side, all the way from the armpit to the waist there is tenderness.
No new meds, activities, no change with deep breathing.
Its also not constant, just on occasion.
I am wondering if it's the start of fibromyalgia and I am dreading that possibility.
I have chronic nerve pain and when I poke my arm or torso I feel pain.
Do you know the cause of the chronic nerve pain? This is OP I have several (benign) brain tumors but so far they have mostly only affected my vision.