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| dwinsor52 |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 06:55:10
Okay, I need help again! I am seeing too many ads for Requip and only a few days after having posted about how "recovered" I am from the RLS by using Sarno's techniques, I have had 2 really bad nights with RLS. I would REALLY appreciate any cheerleading to keep me from falling into the medication trap again. Because I can feel the fear back.
Thanks
Debby |
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| ndb |
Posted - 05/15/2006 : 09:19:58
Debby,
Perhaps one thing to tell yourself is that if you treat the symptom, then almost surely your brain will find another symptom to replace it and the cycle will continue.
Another thing I tend to do while watching drug ads (I am a very skeptical person in this matter) is listen closely for the side effects...imagine how ridiculous it is when a sexy voice says "side effects may include heart attack and internal bleeding" or something like that while the woman relaxes on a lawn chair in front of a sparkling pool. One of my favorites is for some brand (I forget the name) of birth control where the announcer claims one of the "benefits" is that you'll have your period only 4 times a year! That is seriously messed up, in my opinion. I would never want to entrust my well-being to such seemingly unscrupulous people without a lot of thought.
Best,
ndb |
| Logan |
Posted - 05/15/2006 : 04:44:55
I know this was posted awhile back but I'm on here for a refresher course and had to reply - I've been pain free for almost 4 years now but experiencing some TMS neck pain right now due to extreme external pressures (career change, interstate move) exacerbated by no time/privacy to journal and do the grief/anger releases that I know would help me feel better.
So newbies don't give up if you have a flare up. I have had these 3+ good years of pain free living and I still get the occasional flare up, only I know how to beat it and head it off at the pass so that it disappears. Usually this takes a few seconds; sometimes it takes a day; this time the flare up's been with me for a few days. In addition to the neck pain, I've got hives on my feet and a cold because there's this giant pit mine of emotions I'm not dealing with. I know that.
I know better. I'm only in pain right now because I've been putting off and putting off what I know I need to do which is to beat on my couch while feeling all the fear/rage I am suppressing over this scary transition to grad school and teaching freshman comp and then have a good long cry and feel the grief I am suppressing over leaving my home state of 20 years and selling my much loved home and moving into a rental house.
Anyways, I just wanted to say that the job I have right now, creating transcripts of corporate conference calls, many of which are pharmaceutical companies, has only reinforced my opinion that Sarno is right and the pharmaceutical industry - along with chiros and all the other apparently well meaning snake oil sellers - has a vested interest in keeping people with chronic pain in a chronic cycle of dependency.
It's the absolute truth. What pharm companies do is come up with a drug and then look for a disease or a "syndrome" that they can market it to. I've transcribed calls where I've heard this discussed. I've also done many calls in which pharm employees interview doctors and ask them what they think the drug might be good for.
In my experience, and what I've heard many of these interviewed doctors say is that drugs for any chronic condition, most especially pain and depression, are basically ineffective and almost always come with a grab bag of side effects that in most cases make the patient feel worse than they did to begin with.
Well, I feel a bit better already just writing this. I should go journal now and really get some of this out.
Cheers all |
| dwinsor52 |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 14:00:08
When I see the advertisement showing a happy family with the woman in front of a fire with her legs up, relaxed, looking like her drug has no side effects and no down side, I start thinking maybe I am being a little too hard on myself to work on the restless legs using my mind. I am thinking "well, after all, what's the harm." I will also say that when I get restless legs, it's for only a short time, while I am watching TV or reading, and usually preceded by semi-conscious thoughts of "Oh, my legs are okay", and then they are not, simply because I have thought about them. I was watching a play with my husband and it was boring, and it was late at night, and I got a thought about my legs, and there you go........ I think the drug companies are evil in how they portray medications as having no down side, no side effects, and leave us wondering why we aren't all running through the fields of daisies. |
| h2oskier25 |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 08:32:16
First off, remember the Large drug company's business Model: Step 1) Create a Drug, Step 2) Create a Disease or Syndrome for that drug.
I personally find Sarno very interesting when he sites that back in the 70's and 80's, ulcers were the big syndromes of tension, and once they were discounted as having another cause, nobody seems to get them anymore.
RLS and Back Pain have become vogue Tension related diseases in our time.
Keep up the good fight.
Regards,
Beth |
| n/a |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 08:31:15
Debby
Tell me a bit about what is going on in your head when all this happens. It will help for me to respond to your question better.
Peter |
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