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| alan |
Posted - 12/17/2004 : 11:44:01
Hi
I have suffered from RSI in both hands for over 18 months now. It started not long after my wedding and got worse after playing golf and due to my job using a PC all day. It has ranged from minor pain and tingling to major loss of use of my hands and arms. I am still working (just) in the IT industry therefore using a PC everyday. I have been through doctors, physio, which if anything seemed to make me worse.
I discovered SARNO and believe his TMS theories, but i just cant quite get there. So how come I keep getting flare ups... I have been trying this process for over 4 months now... I am getting there, some days are good, others bad again? I feel eliminating the fear the most difficult part, as every time I type the tell tale signs start, and then hey presto... RSI, even though I am trying to focus on TMS and not a physical problem.
Has anyone else had a similar story or offer any advice. Most of these posts are back pain oriented, although I know how it can move around as in the past I have have had severe anxiety, stomach problems, such as IBS for years, headaches etc.
Alternativley are there ANY TMS doctors in the UK??
Many Thanks
Alan
P.S. Great forum.. has helped me a lot already. |
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| tennis tom |
Posted - 12/19/2004 : 16:59:34
Alan,
From page 26, MBP, Holmes/Rahe's list of life events that can cause "disease" through the mechanism of internal rage:
#6 Personal injury or illness
#7: Marriage
#14 Gain of a new family member
#30 Trouble with boss
#34 Change in recreation |
| menvert |
Posted - 12/19/2004 : 07:54:55
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It seems the major conflict is ME, i cause most of my problems,
Funny you should say that, lol , because all my work pressures were completely self-imposed, I had a very laid-back boss, who would give me ample time to do jobs . but my perfectionist obsessive self wanting to please other people, ahead of my own... would spend six hours nonstop completing a job I've been given three days to do....
When it came to leaving my job . my employers did not want me to leave, which made it even more difficult.... my TMS thinking, making me stay to please other people without properly taking into account my own needs.
Also, I remember I would actually get more pain on the weekends.... because when I was in that pain hole at the time, my weekend meant I had that much more free time to sit at home miserable not being able to do anything with my arms and being left watching TV and dwelling on my own misery and pain...
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| alan |
Posted - 12/18/2004 : 05:01:32
Again, thanks for the response. It sounds so similar to what I have been through over the past few years... changing illness and symtoms, finally resulting in RSI which seems so hard to beat.
Sarno does work though and I will keep it up, just I need to keep my job and support my growing family which in turn cause i guess this internal struggle and rage within myself. My job as well does not help this rage, with redundancies looming and bastard for a boss.
It seems the major conflict is ME, i cause most of my problems, I think to much, dwell on pain, worry, etc, etc. This is why it has to be TMS. But I am learning, but its a slow process, but it does work.
I will keep reading this forum as you cant beat experience.
Thanks
Alan. |
| tennis tom |
Posted - 12/17/2004 : 22:44:55
Good post Menvert. Good luck with the job, hope it works out for you. Stay the course.  |
| menvert |
Posted - 12/17/2004 : 19:16:05
Check my bio for a rundown of my conditions :)
but RSI is basically the main one.
Started five years ago, working in IT started in arm and moved to the next within a month
although previous to that I had irritable bowel syndrome, and strange enough . I had resolved that just prior to the RSI.
I have further been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, because of my many and various areas of pain....
Since reading/accepting TMS , about a year and a half ago . I have had the most dramatic improvements, nothing previous has had as much of a positive effect.
Keep in mind, I am by no means CURED, but I can now eat with a knife and fork, I can pick up my nieces, I can do my own shopping . I can look after myself . I can use the computer(mainly recreationally at this point) I am even at the point now where I'm going for a job interview today for a three day a week job, in a computer shop. I did three solo skydiving jumps :)
I kept working through the pain for the first three years . then I left my job...
I believe, if I had of stayed in my job and read Sarno at the time . I would have probably received a cure, but whilst maintaining my job.
Re: wondering why you're pain moves from 100% good to 20% in the space of the day .
should highlight to you that it is in fact, TMS... ordinary physical injuries did not fluctuate like that. And if you like me, no doctors were actually able to give me a proper diagnosis or any realistic treatment... which is another reason why it is TMS.
See if you can find emotional/psychological reasons that you have pain on one day, but not another... for me it is usually social anxiety/impatience/or being pissed off something is not working, how I want it to.
After discovering a few of my ' psychological triggers' I'm now a lot more easily able to dispel my pain, because I can say ' Oh that's just happening because I have to go to a job interview tomorrow' or whatever you work out it is for you.
And yes, I have had a significant pain flareup leading up to the fact that I've got a job interview today... but by accepting Sarno . it is not the big issue it used to be . I don't spiral down into depression, constantly focusing on pain anymore.
I believe at this point getting a job will help me to iron out and defeat the rest of TMS... (without sufficient stimulation . it is hard to do a lot of TMS 'work')
PS: I am still using voice recognition software to do the bulk of my typing...
but in summary, I am probably 60% improved Re: my ability to actually do things
although only about 40% free of pain (but that's 100% more than I ever got from physical therapy) |
| alan |
Posted - 12/17/2004 : 18:29:14
Thanks for the replies, just I cannot understand how I can be almost 100% one day and 20% the next. i will keep on trying... no doing.
Alan. |
| Bazz |
Posted - 12/17/2004 : 13:09:27
Hi Alan,
I do have a simular experience. I am dealing with RSI (in my hands and neck) since may 2003. Although nothing seemed to work, I discovered the book of dr. Sarno in july 2004. Since that time my situation has improved. Although I am really convinced of the theory of dr. Sarno and competelly fit the profile as well, I haven't a feeling of a completely stable situation. Some days I feel more pain then other days.
However I keep on learning and researching, because I know the theory can work. A lot of other people have proven that. I allways ask myself: "what is the alternative?". To my opinion there isn't any. All the kind of treatments I tried, didn't take effect. So, keep on doing the good work. This is the only right track.
Barry |
| Sarah Jacoba |
Posted - 12/17/2004 : 12:36:34
check conquerrsi.com as well, I think it is. "Rachel's RSI page" or something like that.
I have recovered from tendinitis and other RSI symptoms using the TMS approach.
There's another guitar teacher where I work who quit because of carpal tunnel. Strangely enough, her RSI began after she had "successful" surgery to beat her chronic colitis (removing most of her bowel). Seems too coincidental to me.
And I'm still teaching and playing, thanks to Sarno's theory, and she's not. I feel sorry for her!
--Sarah
"When dream and day unite" |
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