mine started with chronic migraines for a couple months and then neck pain that progressed to neck and shoulder pain. i started getting awful migraines whenever i would work on homework for one of my classes and then that december the neck pain started. that was the fall semester. then in the spring semester i would get headaches (just normal headaches) almost every night when i went to do any homework. and during that semester the pain spread to my shoulder. i went like a year with just the pain i think and there was a couple months where it decreased a bit but then it came back and hasn't left since (it's been 4 1/2 years since the initial migraines). i then started to develop fatigue, which for about a year i thought was actually just my asthma getting worse because it mostly presented after walking up stairs (i still sometimes confuse fatigue attacks and asthma attacks) and i actually talked to my asthma doctor about daily asthma medication (which i took for over a year with no effect). i believe the theory that fibro can start after being triggered by a stressful event because i really do feel like that one class set off my fibro (it was a methods class with A LOT of coursework). tldr: migraines, neck (and shoulder) pain, then fatigue

chronic migraines & shoulder pain were my first indicators

Mine started with a 24/7 tension headache from severe tightness in my shoulders. Then came major fatigue. Then it all went downhill from there 🙃

Mine started with horrific migranes and joint pain. Then I started feeling sick all the time and getting exhausted extremely easily.

Mine was caused by a huge influx of white blood cells caused by asthma. I swelled up like 25lbs of fluid and everything ached like i was covered in bruises. It just felt like someone was punching me. I got the asthma under control but the pain stayed

Mine started with an increase in my migraines and trouble moving in the mornings. I was teaching in the field all day, climbing around the badlands. Within a month, my back and legs were very painful all day. It took five years to get the right diagnosis, and I had to change jobs twice during that time.

Mine started like a thyroid problem (my thyroid is fine). My neck muscles swelled with the smallest stressors, I got pain that shot through my nerves and swirled around like marble all over, which caused fatigue so strong it made me nauseous to fight it too long without a nap. I gained weight without increasing my food intake. I developed food allergies that I've never had, and so many different types of hives too. As soon as I turned 30, this hit me like a brick. I had to quit working after 5 months of trying to keep my management position through the brain fog and pain. I just couldn't keep it up.

Mine started with generalized pain all over. My husband couldn't even put his hand on my leg. I also had migraines. Eventually I eliminated the migraines when a specialist told me to go on an organic diet. It eliminated the migraines and decreased my overall pain.

Mine started with unbelievable fatigue and muscle weakness. I'd collapse. I had already been living with chronic pain from a hip issue, so I really didn't notice the pain first.

My pain was in my left leg and lower back. It was misdiagnosed as sciatica. It wasn't until the pain moved to my shoulder and a change of GP that I got the right diagnosis.

First symptoms for me were pins and needles in my face (including in my mouth and eye). This spread to my hands, feet, legs, and back of the head with numbness. The sensitivity came next, a slight touch would make me jump and I had to get earbuds for noise sensitivity. The fatigue and fibro-fog came around the same time, and the widespread pain came a couple of months later, with all of the other symptoms (migraines, ibs, anxiety, etc). Took around 3 months for them all to show.

Mine started with knee pain then to my hips, wrists, ankles, back, neck, jaw etc and while that was happening, I got pain and sensitive points on my body. I also experience headaches and general tingling.

Extreme daytime fatigue. Headaches every single day. Joints achy. It basically feels like having the flu imo

Chronic migraines at age 12.....

Mine was literally just pain. There was no explanation for having the pain, but the bone ends of my shoulders is very tender to touch. I already had been taking meds for depression for yrs also with the chronic insomnia. I went for yrs being told the pain in my hips was bursitis, but when I got cortisone injections they did nothing. It took me yrs to finally get a doctor to give me the diagnosis. The first one to bring it up refused to give me the diagnosis because she said she didn't want me blaming everything in fibro.

Really sore and body pain as a child

I started getting really fatigued, and my muscles started feeling like they were burning and tearing apart after a short while of physical activity (walking, etc.) My menstrual periods were also really heavy and painful. This was around the age of 12-13.

mine started out with body aches & pains, joint pains, headaches, daytime tiredness, brain fog.. like having the flu 24/7 minus the fever and vomiting, or having the physical symptoms of severe depression (which i had at the time). had to be taken out of school to do homeschool but i had trouble concentrating and focusing, plus home wasn’t an ideal place to do schoolwork. after learning about others’ experiences with their fibromyalgia journey, it’s possible i didn’t even have it at the time i was diagnosed (14 or 15). it could’ve just been severe & ongoing/unresolved depression and trauma.

I got VERY sleepy they originally said chronic fatigue but one doctor said fibromyalgia and I got pains just a few weeks later.

First symptoms were disturbed sleep and tons of pain when trying to be mobile and major fatigue. I also began getting abdominal pain and after scans and antibiotics and everything under the sun no doctor could find a cause except possibly it being related to this

My thyroid just cut out. I didn't get a goiter, but it just all the sudden quit. Got it treated, and the symptoms never really resolved. I had mono as a teen, and I think those two things really did something to me. I have no energy now. My heart skips around at least once a day. Aches and chills every day, almost like clockwork. My nerves are crap. Chemical sensitivity. Hot flashes, chills. Headaches. Night sweats. Nausea. IBS. It's like my whole system is haywire.

My symptoms started out like I’d been working outside all day but over time they got me on lyrica 150 and dulonetine20 mg and it helps alot better then gabapentin