| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| fibri |
Posted - 05/25/2009 : 12:36:15
Since I started the TMS work 2 weeks ago, my low back pain transformed into acute sciatica and in addition a resurgence of many of my old TMS symptoms.
In fact, the last 2 weeks it's been like my TMS tried to remember every TMS condition I've suffered from in the last 30+ years and thrown them all back at me. Digestive problems, RSI, earache, sore throat, even a flare-up of hemmerhoids (sp? that must be the most difficult word in the language to spell right!), which was mentioned in another topic in the last couple of days.
I know some of those things aren't usually cited as TMS-related, but I have really felt them come and go in relation to what was going on in my head. The earache and sore throat for example brought me back to a difficult time in my childhood, during which I got an infected eardrum and had my tonsils removed (the physical ailments were, I think, my first TMS symptoms, connected to the stress/family situation that was affecting me at the time).
I continue to work hard each day on the TMS work and I feel a daily improvement in my health. However, when I wake every morning at 5 a.m. with aching leg and butt, it's hard to be "grateful" to TMS for "protecting" me. Give me the emotional pain up front any day :-)
Just writing this post has brought with it a surge of earache. I feel like an overly-sensitive emotional barometer these days!
One thing that was sort of funny to remember - a few nights ago when I was in the kitchen at 5 am drinking a glass of milk and taking a painkiller, I suddenly vividly remembered one night during that childhood period getting up late at night and sitting on my mother's lap as she gave me a glass of milk and a painkiller. It soothed me then and I'm STILL doing it! |
| 4 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| fibri |
Posted - 05/26/2009 : 00:35:38
"Which bit soothed you - sitting on your mother's lap or the milk and painkiller?
Maybe we're still craving our parents' attention..."
Good question, Hilary! I'm 48 and my mum's 83 and lives in another country, and even today when anything happens my first instinct is to call her to be reassured. That's a bit pathetic, isn't it :-) But thanks: your question gives me food for thought....
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"I used to get tonsillitis every single half term ..."
Aha, so I'm not the only one with TMS-related tonsillitis! |
| HilaryN |
Posted - 05/25/2009 : 14:27:32
Actually I remember I had an increase in lots of different symptoms, too, when trying to get rid of my RSI. I found it a bit overwhelming.
Hilary N |
| flutterby |
Posted - 05/25/2009 : 13:37:31
fibri - since I've been thinking about TMS, I've remembered that when I first started teaching in a particular school where I found it very stressful indeed for various reasons, I used to get tonsillitis every single half term and at the beginning of each holidays. Eventually a doctor said that if I got it again, I'd have to have my tonsils removed - and I've never had it since! That was nearly 30 years ago!!!  |
| HilaryN |
Posted - 05/25/2009 : 13:29:13
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it's hard to be "grateful" to TMS for "protecting" me. Give me the emotional pain up front any day :-)
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...sitting on my mother's lap as she gave me a glass of milk and a painkiller. It soothed me then and I'm STILL doing it!
Which bit soothed you - sitting on your mother's lap or the milk and painkiller?
Maybe we're still craving our parents' attention...
Hilary N |
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