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| Suz |
Posted - 10/29/2004 : 08:39:16
Hey everyone,
I am totally lost at this point. My TMS pain has abandoned the sciatic area in my hip and leg and has taken up residence in my upper back at night time - It has been doing this now for two weeks and will not let up. The pain is the worst I have every experienced - it wakes me up all night. It is like a knife running up and down my muscles. I have been reading the treatment chapter and writing every night. In the morning, I cannot bend my body forward or my head. As the day goes on, I get looser and looser until night time when I go to bed and it starts all over again. It seems to me that I am conditioned now to think the pain will happen. Also, it is very difficult at night time to think psychologically as I am half asleep.
I am going to Sarno's small group session next Tuesday which hopefully will help. I first met Sarno in May of this year. I guess for some people it takes time. I might be in the 10% bracket of people who need psychology to get to some sort of buried rage/sadness.
It is so hard to have patience and to keep optimistic that this pain will go. At the same time, on an optimistic level, it has given me a new perspective on illness and how my body works.
Has this TMS relocation happened to anyone? |
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| menvert |
Posted - 11/02/2004 : 17:37:29
hi suz,
when my TMS pain move to my lower back I really began to understand and have compassion for people with recurring back pain... because the lower back pain for me was more debilitating and far worse than any of the previous TMS injuries... it really can deal you a heavy blow :( I can now understand why back pain manages to be such a major issue in the world... it really does put you down - physically and psychologically.
But after reading Sarno books, which are quite focused on the back, is it at all surprising that the pain would move to your back also?? , TMS does like to choose something in vogue and that you actually know about...
It is another large TMS hurdle, but you can and will get through it... and in my experience there's not much worse than back pain...
Keep doing what you're doing and refine your skill at not focusing on your physical pain... when I get a new pain it does take a little while(weeks) to learn the skill of not thinking physically about that particular pain.
good luck
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| tennis tom |
Posted - 11/01/2004 : 09:53:41
Suz for most if not all people TMS pain cessation "takes time". I think there's a big "dose" of relief upon first cracking Sarno's books open for the first time-an immediate reduction of FEAR.
As with any thing worth doing, refining the techniques take some pracitice and time, but the ultimate rewards are great.
I think instances of immediate and total pain relief are rare and somewhat hypperbole.
Pain movement, as you have experienced, occurs and is viewed as a sign of having the TMS gremlin on the run-making a last stand. I had such an occurrence, as I have posted, and it deepened my belief in TMS. My pain went from my butt to my neck/shoulder for a week and back again. When it returned to my butt it was less severe and I've had a much better ability to play with it since. I and hope to completely make it go away in the near future. |
| iyusaf |
Posted - 10/29/2004 : 08:52:55
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Originally posted by Suz
Has this TMS relocation happened to anyone?
This is a common occurrence.
Sarno can help you determine whether working with a psychotherapist is appropriate for you. You could bring it up with him at the group session.
You may find that the TMS symptoms move around when you do emotional work with a therapist. The pain will resolve as you make the emotional connections.
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