Regret and Self-Blame: My Battle with Fibromyalgia

I'm sorry, man. Got mine from trauma so it's easy for me to blame someone else. But I did recently get a nasty case of mono, which is definitely something I should have prevented. I broke my one rule of not sharing food and once I did I got ridiculously sick. It made all of the fibromyalgia worse, and I remember heating myself because it was such a stupid mistake in my eyes to make. But to an outsider, I'm sure they knew I didn't mean to do it. And I could be wrong, but I don't think you meant to get fibromyalgia. People do many risky things everyday and most of them get away with it because of how low the chance is that there will be a snag. If you took a risk and now it's biting you in the form of fibro, that just means you rolled a little low. It does suck. I wouldn't wish it upon it anyone. But I also think you didn't wish it upon yourself. I have a really bad habit of blaming myself for things, but to put things in perspective, I always ask myself if I was absolutely sure I would get the outcome that I did before causing it. If the answer is no, I try to be a little easier on myself. Sorry that was a lot to read

Me too honey mine occred when i had one of my 10 surgeries if i could take that surgery back i would

How did you cause it? I jump-started my MCTD (including fibro) because I had strep throat. I put off going to a doctor and ended up being in the hospital.