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| MagicHands |
Posted - 06/06/2008 : 23:34:16
A year ago, I had tendinitis in my hands, constant throat tension that made talking uncomfortable, foot pain, and chronic gastritis. The hand and stomach pain had started the year before and the rest joined in for the party. MRI's showed nothing. Negative for arthritis. Drugs including anti-inflammatories did squat.
I'm a guitarist, but I couldn't play much guitar. I'm a Journalism Major, and I also couldn't comfortably type. I purchased voice recognition software. I began to sing. Then the voice pain (called muscle tension dysphonia by doctors) began. I was supposed to graduate that May, but I put it off fearing my hands couldn't handle the workload.
When I saw Sarno in October 07, I was having sciatica-like pain too, the cherry on top of the TMS sundae. He told me I had TMS without a doubt after examining me. Within a month or 2, my constant stomach pain was gone, and the sciatica/foot pain followed suit. My hand pain continued, which really stressed me out, considering I had a (Super) Senior project to finish. How was I going to type all that up? My voice hurt too much to use the voice reco software. I had no choice but to just do it.
And I did. I typed that sucker up. It was often uncomfortable at first, but my hands would slip into a "zone" where i felt no pain, but only when I typed. My hands stopped bothering me, and the tenderness I had felt all along the arm subsided too. Not perfect, but I wasn't that conscious of it anymore. I completed senior project in April 2008, all 60 pages, and graduated the following month (yay!)
But the yay was short lived. I needed to get my life together, move out. I needed to find a life path. I have a million reasons to do so, not the least of which being to move into NYC and have enough money to buy things I want. I hadn't been that athletically active since my hands had begun hurting in May 2006, but I decided to play a serious game of basketball. I was sore all over, especially my hands.
But my hands didnt bounce back. They returned to my pre-Senior project levels of pain. The bodily tenderness up the arms and mild sciatica returned.
The hand pain has me worrying about applying for jobs. I know I need to move on, but I'm afraid of applying for a job that my hands can't handle. If I don't get to the bottom of this pain, my life will come to a standstill.
I saw a TMS therapist for 6 months. It was interesting but didn't eliminate any symptoms. My parents won't pay for a different one. I really try.. I journal, I acknowledge this, acknowledge that... I'm doing everything right, yet the symptoms still try to tell me something. I don't know what to do.
That was the general plot. I'll write more about my personality in the next post.
-Jordan-
'TMS Guinea Pig' |
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| Jena |
Posted - 06/09/2008 : 19:41:18
do you know if the therapists are only in nyc? Are any of them on long island? |
| MagicHands |
Posted - 06/09/2008 : 06:48:11
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Originally posted by Jena
Hey jordan my name is jena i am also a patient of sarno. i recently posted a post above yours and the therapists for sarno i dont think are covered under insurance is this true?
It is true only if you have out of network benefits on your plan. My plan covered 20 visits paying 50% of each. A 45 min session cost $100 with the coverage
-JJ-
'TMS Guinea Pig' |
| Jena |
Posted - 06/07/2008 : 14:18:31
Hey jordan my name is jena i am also a patient of sarno. i recently posted a post above yours and the therapists for sarno i dont think are covered under insurance is this true? if you dont mind me asking u can email m ethe prices because the one therapist i spoke to said no therapists are on long island (where i live). so i am forced to go see a regular therapist. i was cured of many ailments but im back for something else. (which i wrote in the previous post) if you can give me some info that would be great. thanks |
| armchairlinguist |
Posted - 06/07/2008 : 12:14:50
Since you are a patient of Dr. Sarno, you should consult again with him to get some reassurance about your hands. Fundamentally speaking, since you've been diagnosed with TMS I don't even have any hesitation in saying that your RSI-tendinitis-whatever-it-is is TMS. You just have to stop letting the pain trap you into the distraction of being worried about the pain ("my life will come to a standstill" -- ....only if you let it!) instead of worried about the big changes that are going on in your life. Clearly you're in a time of major life upheaval and must have many complex and perhaps conflicting feelings about it.
I recovered from three years of RSI two years ago (incidentally, it started when I graduated from college, so I know whereof I speak on the emotions caused by that life situation). There are many success stories from RSI on this forum which may benefit you to check out.
If you can type a 60-page paper then you clearly don't have anything physical wrong with you, and you need to stop fearing that you might. Getting outside the layer of 'false fears' caused by the pain itself to the real fears you have about your life path is likely to be the key.
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