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| Shannon |
Posted - 01/28/2008 : 10:58:37
Could anyone let me know if they have had general lower GI issues as their TMS manifestation? I know they are equivalents. I solved chronic TMS leg pain that plagued me for 7 years a couple of years ago and recently I started to experience diffused GI issues. Fairly constant cramping, pain, fullness but everything else is normal. I'm just looking for someone to relate to as I approach the program again. I appreciate any support. |
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| Shannon |
Posted - 01/30/2008 : 11:23:43
Thanks for the replies. I am feeling a lot better having gone back to basics and working the program. There's no getting around it or through it "faster" just because I've successfully done it with other manifestations. It's hard work every time. This time I reminded myself that just as the reservoir of rage builds up gradually, so too does the correct message to my mind. I can send the right message and it won't shut off automatically but it will interrupt the signal. The more I do it, the more it "accumulates" or solidifies until, finally, there's a moment of success and another and another... and finally the wrong message is turned off and the correct one stays on.
My approach always includes the following (nothing new here - just want to make the list to remind myself and others that there is no magic bullet - it's work):
1)I read the psychology and treatment chapters from the Divided Mind
2) I read the same chapters in Healing Back Pain (I just like how its written - a little more simple when I'm stressed out)
3) I make the inventory of emotions/stressors that are going on in my life
4) I write out my personality traits
5) ***I ask myself the naked question: "Do I believe in TMS?" and I answer it. I answer it out loud. My answer is "yes" therefore there is no going backwards - doubting will be a waste of my time.
6) I write out all the reasons why I know TMS is the correct diagnosis and I use past examples and successes. I also point out the illogical nature of my condition (pain moves around, nothing correlates etc.)
7) I take into account that when I'm having TMS I'm also very sensitized and stressed out. I try to limit the reading and work to an hour or two with small affirmations throughout the day. If doubt creeps in I recognize it as another distraction that occurs when I feel tired, raw, sore and emotionally stressed.
8)I acknowledge all the ways in which I'm presently conditioned to feel pain. I write them out and then I take steps to challenge the conditioned responses (eg. I was avoiding certain food even though my stomach wasn't bothered at all and everything else, except the pain, was "regular")
9) I recognize that while the mind is shutting off the pain signal that it may take a little while longer for my body to settle down - there's a lot of nerve endings!! So I try not to get upset if my mind has made the connection but it's still taking a while for everything to settle down. I give myself a break - I'm kind to myself - I'm not barking orders at my brain, just talking. I reward myself (did some shopping). I get out of my head a little!
10)I pan the camera WAY back and look for the simple sources of anger/fear/pain/insecurity - sometimes it isn't too complicated - sometimes an annoying mundane thing that happens at work is also angering and that anger tops my reservoir (last week I was feeling terrible with the flu and I came into work for an hour only to encounter someone who didn't know I was sick and was making huge demands of me - I immediately had bowel pain. While it all relates to complex emotional stuff that started in childhood I can also scale back and just look at the surface of that moment and say "That really" ticked me off!").
11) If I need people around me to understand what's going on with me I give them the You tube video from Dr. Schubiner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldyI7mJG2EA
12)I remind myself that overcoming the TMS pain takes work and no one else can do that for me but me. Time to roll up the sleeves and get at it.
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| JohnD |
Posted - 01/29/2008 : 19:36:59
I've found that certain supplements help ward off TMS, and/or non TMS GI issues. Primal Defense by Garden of Life was helpful to me, as well as Bentonite Clay. |
| Wavy Soul |
Posted - 01/28/2008 : 22:37:58
Yes, absolutely, IBS as part of TMS. I'm in!
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Love is the answer, whatever the question |
| randolo |
Posted - 01/28/2008 : 17:07:04
I definitely get lower GI symptoms as part of my TMS. I've been diagnosed with IBS and it usually manifests as a generally "rumbly" and gassy and gurgly kind of feeling, accompanied often by a headache and/or feeling wiped. I used to think it might even be a low-grade flu that I was fighting off but it happened too many times, without turning into the real flu, for that to be it. I can't really offer any suggestions other than the normal TMS program, but hopefully just knowing that other people experience the same symptoms as TMS will help you realize that's what it is and not something "structural". Good luck.
Randolo |
| Shannon |
Posted - 01/28/2008 : 13:29:31
Thanks for the reply.
I honestly know that it isn't anything, I just don't LIKE going through it (which is obvious because who enjoys their TMS episodes??!). This morning it shifted from my left side to my right side to nothing etc. I had the flu for a week and had an episode of diarrhea and then I couldn't shake the symptoms. I remind myself that this isn't any different than someone who makes a sudden movement (jerking their back, falling down) and then getting TMS pain in that exact location.
Honestly, my hardest issue is "starting over" with new manifestations. It frustrates me so much that my brain goes into fear mode. I tackled an enormously complex syndrome of pain in my legs using Dr. Sarno's books but when I get new things (new TMS manifestations) it just seems so hard. Probably because 1) I'm sick of having it 2) didn't I successfully deal with this already? and 3) if I was so great at conquering my other pain manifestation why can't I shut this one off?
That's the general stream of consciousness. It's a tricky thing. I'm sure others have been in the same boat when they experienced a new TMS condition.
I'm going to think of something else now! :-) |
| mk6283 |
Posted - 01/28/2008 : 12:05:01
Sounds like an IBS-variant, i.e. TMS. See your doctor and if he labels it "stress" or, even worse, just prescribes some symptomatic treatment, then proceed w/ confidence that you are dealing w/ yet another guise of the gremlin. Good luck.
Best,
MK |
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