 Re: Fibromyalgia
Gator8, you mentioned painful knots in your back.
"The muscle knots in my back hurt all the time, as though I've lifted furniture all day long. I have palpable knots in my back that migrate around. I suppose I could "will" or "over react " to pain symptoms, but these knotted muscles produce clusters of painful hard lumps are not imagined or over reaction to pain stimulus. Surgeons have removed such knots in patients in the past, thinking they were the source of pain. (no, not in my instance, but this had been attempted in others because the lumps are real) But the knots are there from autnomic nervous system efferent signals, not from any organic disease in the muscles. These knots are common to MS, which is also recognized to cause aberrant brain signals."
My wife is plagued by chronic muscle pain in the upper back, shoulders and neck regions and appears to consist of palpable spasmatic bundles of muscle fibers, not to the extent of a full muscle cramp, i.e charlie horse, but to a lessor degree of severity. Massage and forceful pressure on the knot(trigger point therapy) helps somewhat. Her neurosurgeon who fused C456 states that is not related to any previous disc degeneration or nerve root compression. This is not the diagnostic pain upon light touch phenomenon. It this the symptom you were refering to?  | 
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