I have not been officially diagnosed with Fibromyalgia but the doctors suspect that I have it seeing that I have so many positive signs. I am currently going to Pain Management for nerve pain due to a hernia repair with mesh. Before this surgery I was in the water every chance I could get. Soon after the surgery I developed all kinds of adverse effects and nerve pain from the insertion of the mesh and after a year of pain and suffering, I found a surgeon to remove the mesh in Las Vegas, but I had to pay cash for the surgery. No doctor in California would recommend that I have it removed. They didn't think it was the cause of my pain. Well, now that the mesh is gone, I can most certainly say it was because of the mesh. The surgeon who put it in (Kaiser Permanente) put it in backwards. Yes there is a front and a back to mesh and should be put in the correct way other wise dense adhesions to the mesh will occur which mesh was designed to do. So, it adhered to my insides instead of the abdominal wall that it was supposed to. Luckily for me, it only stuck to the greater omentum and not the intestines which did make it easier to remove. In doing so, a lot of the nerves in that area had to be cut. So I'm recovering from a second surgery and I'm looking to get back into the water. My challenge is that through all of this, I think I have developed Fibromyalgia and am currently on medications to help with nerve pain, which happen to be prescribed for persons with Fibromyalgia. I am on Lyrica, Savella, Tramadol and I take Percocet on my really bad days. The Lyrica and Savella are the drugs I take everyday and cannot skip a dose. So with all these medications, will they wear off after a dive? Has anyone noticed if their medication has worn off after doing a dive? Does the medication effect your senses differently underwater? I hope to get off the Tramadol and Percocet completely soon. I also have had nerve blocks to the L5 and S1 nerve roots and I'm going for cortisone shots to the sacroiliac joints next week. My intention is to get into some serious physical therapy and return to the water when the doctors say I'm ok to dive. I can't lift anything over 40lbs for quite a while so the suggestions I've read so far give me hope.