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| Taoist Pilgrim |
Posted - 04/24/2009 : 05:04:31
I have a specific query regarding TMS and painful points upon palpitation.
I have been pretty screwed up for about 2 years now. I had a health scare (unrelated) and even though this was clear it set me off with hypochondria and also various anxiety symptoms. To start with all these symptoms seemed neurological in nature and I had the usual MS & ALS freak outs. After seeing a couple of neurologists over a few months these symptoms subsided but where replaced with a variety of other aches and pains (classic symptom shifting). The thing that has started to trouble me the most recently (big clue there hey) is a lower back and hip pain and also pain in my feet arches and heels, I also suffer from chest discomfort and shoulder/neck pain. I have been checked out and nothing has been discovered to be amiss. Both my GP and psychologist believe my symptoms to be somatic.
The last 2 years have really seen me on a mission to get diagnosed but I have now accepted that there is really only so far you can go and if a large number of GP’s and specialists tell you that you are fine then you really have to accept this. The weird (ish) thing is that even pretty much on day one of all this kicking off there was a large element of me that thought this was somatic. The health scare was really the tip of the iceberg and I have a lot of unresolved issues going on around various issues around rage, anger, self esteem etc etc….if you actually look at Sarno’s blueprint profile of the typical TMS sufferer with personality traits etc it fits like a glove.
I have read The Mindbody Prescription a number of times and Sarno often states that pretty much every case of TMS presents with points that are painful to the touch and palpitation in the specific areas that are troubling the sufferer. Now, whilst my pain, location and above all situational relevance all fit the TMS thesis I do not actually ever experience any pain upon palpitation. Speaking with my psychologist he does seem to see this as totally irrelevant and not a defining factor of somatic symptoms but Sarno does seem to put much store by this aspect of how TMS is diagnosed. I am actually wondering if I’m falling into the trap of having to have a somatic disorder labelled in some way to accept it….like I have been told it is somatic but in order to be TMS it needs to fit specific criteria in some ways, in many ways it is this thinking process that got me here in the first place.
Anyway, any advice or thoughts on this issue would be great.
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| Jim1999 |
Posted - 04/26/2009 : 17:08:20
I met a man on the Internet who suffered from chronic pain. As far as he knew, he did not have any palpable pain points. He had been checked for these at the 18 points used for fibromyalgia diagnosis. Despite his lack of pain points, he was convinced that his chronic pain was TMS. Using Sarno's books, this man was able to recover and return to a normal life.
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| Taoist Pilgrim |
Posted - 04/24/2009 : 06:59:41
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Originally posted by HellNY
When Sarno saw me, the first few minutes he was palpitatikng areas on my body and nothing happened and he said "usually TMS patiants have these but not necessarily always."
Just a few moments later he hit a spot that sent me through the roof. I didnt even know I HAD that spot.
So two thing:
I dont think these are hard and fast rules about diagnosis.
Second, you may have them but not even know them.
Last, I suspect your "need to be reassured" is in direct proportion to your lingering doubt. And that is what fuels the process.
I have no doubt of that. |
| HellNY |
Posted - 04/24/2009 : 06:44:11
When Sarno saw me, the first few minutes he was palpitatikng areas on my body and nothing happened and he said "usually TMS patiants have these but not necessarily always."
Just a few moments later he hit a spot that sent me through the roof. I didnt even know I HAD that spot.
So two thing:
I dont think these are hard and fast rules about diagnosis.
Second, you may have them but not even know them.
Last, I suspect your "need to be reassured" is in direct proportion to your lingering doubt. And that is what fuels the process. |
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