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| chloe |
Posted - 02/27/2007 : 07:25:43
Hi everyone,
This is my first post. I have successfully overcome quite a lot of pain - it's not completely gone but low enough for me to work etc.
I wondered if anyone could help me. I have had a virus and have been left with a very painful chest and throat. I am finding it very hard to talk. I have a completely normal voice. I have been to an ENT specialist who says my vocal cords are fine. I have had a number of weeks off work and went back yesterday. I am finding it very hard and may have to take more time off.
Does anyone have any thoughts? I have done lots of journaling and can see lots of possible reasons why but my mind keep worrying that it is voice strain and I must be careful with my voice. My heart says it's tms. I know I am putting pressure on myself to get 'better'.
Thank you.
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| chloe |
Posted - 03/06/2007 : 09:12:06
Yes, you are right pressure is something that I constantly put on myself. Fed up and tired of it and I am sure it is a contributing factor!! I feel lots of external pressure as well which increases the internal pressure and so on! Am working on easying up but it all takes time.
Work was very hard today - very sore throat/chest despite not talking much. Don't know what to do?????? |
| shawnsmith |
Posted - 03/06/2007 : 06:52:43
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Originally posted by chloe
know I am putting pressure on myself to get 'better'.
This sentence is a crucial that provides insight into one of your personality traits. How much pressure to you place on yourself in other areas of your life? Do you always feel that no matter how hard you try something that you never succeed or that you are not good enough? Just asking.....
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Sarno-ize it!
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| chloe |
Posted - 03/05/2007 : 12:07:30
Thanks Hilary.
I would really recommend doing a Journey process, although you have to find the right person - I did one a few years ago and it was ok but yesterday was excellent. It took 4 hours - bit long really but very good. You drop through different layers of emotions and then find the source, the real you. It helps you release certain things and today I have made a big decision about something.
At first you have to go to a body part and I thought I would go to the chest or throat but my mind came up with my knee, which i have had problems with but not at the moment. Anyway, at the end of the session she said it was interesting that I chose the knee as, in her experience, that it greatly connected with the chest!
I had various times when my chest became so painful - when I was feeling different emotions. I suppose that shows its emotional!!
Anyway, she said it often needs a number of treatments (expensive!) so I may go again.
I am hoping to go back to work tomorrow, although I am very scared that my throat/chest won't cope but I have to bite the bullet sometime and give it a go. In my job I have to talk all day in a noisy environment.
I am still having trouble just going for it and forgetting about the pain but I guess that is similar to many of you out there!
Best wishes to you all.
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| HilaryN |
Posted - 03/04/2007 : 10:33:03
Good luck with The Journey, Chloe. Let us know how you get on.
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| Victoria008 |
Posted - 03/03/2007 : 15:45:17
Hi, I just wanted to respond to your topic. Everytime I see "chest pain" in the subject I want to read it! I am rather new here too, and still trying to accept 100% and having difficulty with it. But I do have some acceptance and belief and hope to build on that. This forum helps a lot! What you are talking about sounds really strange, but I can really relate! I have chest pain that is sometimes just in the center, and other times radiates all across the rib/sternum area, and sometimes goes around to my upper back. Of course I worry about my heart. I have had some tests done, but there is still that worry and fear that stops me from accepting TMS 100%. Also you wrote about your voice. I don't do that exactly, but once in a while I will stumble over my words, or feel like my tongue is tied. It is very hard to even describe, just as maybe you were having some trouble desribing your symptoms. And it is exactly this that makes me believe more in TMS. The strange and difficult to describe symptoms. Even as I am having these symptoms, I will sometimes just stop and try to describe them to myself. And even then I can't quite put my finger on it, it will seem to change and morph even as I am paying attention to it! Isn't that weird? Thanks God for this forum, cuz if I were to say these things to people around me they'd probably think I am a nut! Sometimes I wonder..........
Victoria |
| chloe |
Posted - 02/28/2007 : 10:01:15
Thank you for your kind reply, Sonora Sky,
I go through periods of not journaling but always come back to it as an excellent way to help me.
The pain is in my throat and then straight down the centre of my chest and it spreads out across by ribs the more I talk. The ENT man said he thought it was muscle tension and is sending me to a speech and language lady but a date for that will be about a month away and I want to be back at work before then!
I have the typical tms profile. I have difficulty expressing my views on things and saying what I want/don't want and tend to take the easy option (but in the end it turns into the long way as I get problems like this!) and say yes when I want to say no. Don't want to admit I can't do things. I should be able to them.
So I have been told it is muscle tension - similar to being told it is tms but I just don't seem to be able to move on and use my voice freely. The more I use my voice the more I feel that there is nothing 'seriuosly' wrong because when I wake up I still have a voice but I don't quite know how to move on and just speak without tension - that seems hard (almost impossible) at the moment.
I have booked an appointment to do a 'journey' (Brandon Bays) on Sunday so I hope that helps.
Just any advice on letting go of this tension in my throat area would be gratefully received!!
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| sonora sky |
Posted - 02/28/2007 : 08:15:06
Welcome to the forum, Chloe. Congrats on overcoming much of your TMS pain. It sounds like you have made great strides towards healing yourself. Bravo on the journaling--I know it has helped many on this forum. I just wish I could stick with it!
I don't have an answer to your specific question, but hopefully someone else on the forum will be able to give you some insight. There has been some discussion of esophagal pains/discomfort...but I'm not sure this is the same thing. When you say, "chest" do you mean lungs? Windpipe? Ribcage? Give us more detail if you can. And tell us more about yourself and about the emotions you've had to deal with throughout your process of discovery.
Best,
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