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| walnut864 |
Posted - 06/27/2011 : 14:07:29
Im really trying to think psychological about these symptoms.
3 weeks ago I went to the doc to get some antibiotics for my sinus infection. I got amoxicillin 3x 500 mg daily. Ive took amoxicillin many times before.
Anyways, the next day I felt great! I had more energy than usual. That night I began to experience symptoms of restless leg. I could not sleep b/c of it. The next day my toes felt cold and prickly so did my feet.
I began to have sciatic pain in my right leg. Pain in my mid to lower back and pain in muscle i believe they call the levator ani. I felt as if I had a golf ball stuck in my rectum. By the 3rd or fourth day I discontinued the amoxicillin thinking maybe it was the culprit.
The pain my my mid to lower back continued. My legs and feet werent as bad. I felt like a needed to have a bowel movement but I was using the bathroom regularly and was not constipated like I felt. I felt like maybe I was having prostatitis again since I seemed to have some pelvic pain and twice had an erection problem.
I went back to the doctor. They did a prostate exam, x rays of my pelvic and abdomen area and chest and they also took a urine sample.
The doctor concluded that I either had a pulled muscle or it was some type of side affect from something they may have used to make the amoxicillin.
Here we are almost 3 weeks later. The golfball in the rectum thing has died down quite a bit and so has the pain in levator ani muscle but, I continue to have cold feeling toes feet that tingle and feel numb. Cant tell if it is lack of circulation or nerve. Yesterday at work my lower back hurt for a few hours. I am having pain below my hip in my right buttocks. It seems worse when I am laying down. I cannot sleep b/c I feel really anxious.
From my reading on tms and symptoms it seems like I have experienced, sciatica, levator ani syndrome, non bacterial prostatitis, and some others things all in one week.
The only heavy lifting I can remember is me my dad and brother lifted a heating and air unit and put in the back of a truck. I dont remember if it was before or after the amoxicillin but it was within a day or 2.
I didnt have any pain upon lifting or immediately after.
I have a doctors appointment for tomorrow. I really hope this something simple. I cant afford to lose any work. I really like my job. Even though we stand 9 hours a day.
While reading some of the posts on here. One comment in particular caught my attention. I believe it was Pan who posted the following:
"I have been diagnosed with undifferentiated somatisation disorder and part of accepting this diagnosis was understanding that my 'symptoms' have to worry me in order for them to be valid for me....if I can rationalise and 'box off' a symptom it will quickly disappear as it is no longer fit for purpose and becomes redundant. Once this happens I quickly symptom shift and a new and improved symptom and/or ailment will pop along that will endeavour to put me in the worry tailspin. Make of that what you will."
I feel this applies to me. I have had symptoms that took every ounce of my attention no matter how hard I fought to focus on everyday life. I just worried about the symptoms. Then a few days or weeks later I would conciously realize that the symptom(s) were no longer bothering me.
I really gotta do some deep soul searching and find out how to just write off symptoms and move on with life. I am hoping that what I am going through mow is nothing more than TMS and that it too like other symptoms will just fade away. |
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| andy64tms |
Posted - 03/07/2013 : 22:15:01
Hi Walnut, we havn’t met,
I have been in a stress and anxiety situations for the last month. One of my sons brought a fixer upper house that is a train wreck, and I have been working helping for weeks to fix it up, getting very tired physically. I nearly fired the roofing contractor yesterday - nearly four weeks late and a terrible job. And more importantly my dear sister-in-law in England might have cancer; my wife and I are on tender hooks waiting for news daily. My neck pain is high and even my back pain from 12 years ago has joined the TMS party.
I just happened to visit the forum yesterday and view the Louise Hay video that Ace and Shawn posted. It had a profound and relaxing effect on me. I recommend it to you. It’s a story we can all learn from, and has a happy romantic ending. I hope you will feel different after watching it. It is about an anxious person just like YOU! Happy journey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbvC0ermaQ4
Andy
Past TMS Experience in 2000, with success.
Stopped Wiki Edu Program in lieu of own journalling
Charlie Horse on neck for 20 years, is almost gone.
Books:
Healing Back Pain
Unlearn your Pain
The Great Pain Deception |
| walnut864 |
Posted - 03/07/2013 : 21:18:41
Also this is key to this symptom to understand it. The tingling I speak of can also feel like burning or pins an needles. It can bother me in my feet for an hour followed my an hours where I feel normal and then flare up again. So it isnt persistent or chronic. Everytime I have dealt with this it may have lasted a few weeks but not day and night. |
| walnut864 |
Posted - 03/07/2013 : 21:07:25
Well, its back again. Last time I had this was July 10th 2012. Now here I am going through it again. I found it very difficult to sleep last night. The tingling and sensations were in my shoulders and down my arms, in my back, knees down to my toes. This absolutely sucks. I had a difficult time at work b/c this seems to make me really anxious. I even had some twitching in my bottom right eye lid which was not a scare at all to me. I can deal with those but, I had some of this tingling in my face and then on my cheekbones under my eyes the muscles felt really tight or tense. I had a little headache before that. It will be interesting to see how long this lasts this time. |
| walnut864 |
Posted - 07/11/2012 : 21:41:45
my problem is if this is anxiety, why does it llast so long? i can only feel the tingling when im still. if im moving i dont notice it. at work i had jolting pains in the back of my head down my neck to my bicep on the right side. it came and went for a period of about an hour.earlier this week i had some chest pain and left arm pain but i feel they were muscle strain b/c of all the work outside i had been doing, like laying on the ground trying to put the deck back on my mower, diggin holes for a privacy fence and such.
i thought maybe that this could all be from posture when im riding my motorcycle. i had this same stuff last year and i had a motorcycle at that time too. i dunno. its hard to hold onto the tms diagnosis when it seems i never win. the coming and the going of symptoms. i mean i can be totally fine for a long time and then bam stuff comes back. i just want to be done with it once and for all. this has hindered my progress at work and i dont want that. |
| bryan3000 |
Posted - 07/11/2012 : 01:17:56
Hey Walt,
Hope you are well.
I've had the tingling many times. I also get cold limbs and occasional numbness. I've had hours where I almost couldn't feel my feet. My hands get so cold it's almost freakish when I touch my face... feels like someone else's hands.
There's nothing wrong with me. It's all anxiety. Comes and goes. |
| walnut864 |
Posted - 07/10/2012 : 22:23:02
the tingling in the feet are back. been going on for over a week now. also had some tingling in my hands and in my face . not under any stress. the tingling in my feet are only while im at rest |
| lynnl |
Posted - 12/08/2011 : 11:20:47
Hi folks, new guy here. Just found this forum today; had not googled "Dr Sarno" in quite a while, or else overlooked this.
At any rate, I wanted to offer an input to Walnut, though I realize this thread was initiated a few months ago.
To the point: Walnut if you have not come across this, here is a link to a process developed by two doctors at Stanford University that is very relevant to your problem:
http://pelvicpainhelp.com/
It includes a couple of 10 or 12 min videos explaining their findings on a wide range of problems, including symptoms normally attributed (erroneously)to prostate problems.
I'm 100% confident that their ideas are virtually the same as Dr Sarno's, simply expressed in a slightly different model. (In fact I ordered their books, and they do refer to Dr Sarno's work.)
I was having some urinary issues myself a month or so ago, and simply viewing those videos put me at ease, and started the resolution of my symptoms within a matter or hours.
Good luck
Lynn |
| Ace1 |
Posted - 11/30/2011 : 18:40:43
Man, this link by darko really hits the nail on the head, it is one of the best explanations to treating yourself that I have ever seen |
| walnut864 |
Posted - 11/30/2011 : 17:05:38
this tingling in the feet symptoms left a week or so after this thread. they recently returned. not having any back pain.ive had it going on for four or five days now. im not really paying any attention. it is trying to distract me, my mind is trying to run with all sorts of fearful thinking but im just ignoring it. i cant find any stressful situations going on in my life at the moment.
if i remember correctly it started over the weekend. i took 4 days off from work so that i could rest and get some yard work done. my feet symptoms started up again somewhere on the 4 days off from work.
oh well, ill follow up with the symptoms change, these posts often act as a journal for me. i can go back and see my thread and look back at what i was going through at the time.
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| Darko |
Posted - 07/01/2011 : 22:52:35
YOUR WIFE NAGS YOU?????!!!!! OMG.....I've never heard of such a thing 
News flash...she will continue to do it until you either address the issue or she changes her mind set towards the issue. That's a whole other conversation. Head butting the house down is a little undesirable I would think......and may become unsustainable in the long run. I have included a post that you may get something from.
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6743
The problem isn't your wife or anything else "out there" The problem is the thing that sits between our ears........Gain control of that and your life will change.
D
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| walnut864 |
Posted - 06/29/2011 : 21:28:14
Thanks for the reply darko.
my bottled up anger got the best of me today. my wifes continuous nagging and running her mouth and i felt i could no longer contain myself. i head butted my bedroom door several times and the door is busted all to heck, my eyeglasses broke and i had to go to the only one hour eye glass place and that set me back almost 300 bucks. ive got to do something to gain control. i just repress these things so much that when it comes out, all hell breaks loose. |
| Darko |
Posted - 06/29/2011 : 16:20:27
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no person should have control over how I feel.
And they don't my friend!!! You just ALLOW them to....you CAN actually choose how you react to situations, however we're addicted to our own emotions and almost all reactions are unconscious.
If I read between the lines it looks to me that you're unhappy with your life. You have 2 options.
1- Accept it and stop all the complaining in your mind (be happy with it and do nothing), any negative thoughts about ANYTHING is going to produce negative emotions.....which you probably stuff down into your body somewhere. Anxiety is basically anticipating negative things in your mind.....so stop doing it.
2- Accept it and stop complaining in the mind.....however choose to make positive changes in your life......(insert remainder of option 1 here)
That's it mate....that's all you can do. Well you could continue doing what almost all humans do and that is complain in the mind, think and talk negatively......but we know what the result of all that will be don't we?
"All that we are, is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything, what we think we become" - Buddha
I'm sorry if I seem presumptuous and blunt, I'm just at work ATM so pressed for time.
Good luck
D
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| walnut864 |
Posted - 06/28/2011 : 15:24:19
Here are some things going on right now.
I started back work last july 2010 after many years on disability due to anxiety disorder. I was hired part time. A few months ago I was hired on full time. I really enjoyed working alot and getting overtime pay b/c I hadnt made any real money in sooo long. Then I got a little burnt out with it.
I started not liking going to work as much. Then I started to feel tired alot and hurting here and there. I did my best to shake that off and look at reality. I had a good job, close to home, every employee is a friend at work and outside of work, we have alot of fun, and make money while doing it. Sure its only 9 bucks an hour but its better than nothing right?
Then coming home is stressful b/c I can never enjoy a show on tv I wanna watch b/c the kids keep interrupting or the wife is already watching something on the living room tv.
I bought an old motorcycle. Something for me to tinker with, something that would give me some ME time. A couple of days into it I could nt wait to get home from work to mess with the bike. I got home, wife on the tv kids running about. So I go outside to mess with the bike and here comes the wife. Claiming I am spending too much time with the bike yet she spends forever on the tv and I dont care to sit and watch what she is watching.
This things cause alot of anger within me. I'm only 30 and I have become this grumpy pissed off old man. I procrastinate fixing things that I need to fix b/c of the feeling of tiredness and disgust within me. I get easily aggravated. I gotta find the old me. Sometimes at work the old me come out with joking and having fun but I work retail and some ignorant person can quickly ruin my mood. I dont know why, no person should have control over how I feel. |
| walnut864 |
Posted - 06/28/2011 : 15:12:19
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Originally posted by jjh2go
I'm surprised the topic of your back didn't come up during these exams. A herniated disc could be causing these problems. TMS could also be causing these problems. I would think you want an MRI of your low back and a consultation with a TMS doctor to figure it out. Keep in mind that erection problems aren't a good sign. That could mean a stenosis of the spinal chord, which could be from different causes. I suppose it could be from TMS as well, although I haven't seen anyone talk about it.
The problem with TMS is figuring out the difference between TMS and structural problems.
I agree. I expected some sort of imaging to be performed or at least some physical exam. I got none of that. I guess I was looking for peace of mind that nothing was wrong and I could label it as TMS and move on. I guess its the fear that maybe this time its not TMS. Like I said earlier. I've never been hit with so many things all at once. |
| walnut864 |
Posted - 06/28/2011 : 15:09:18
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Originally posted by tennis tom
I don't see what you're so upset about, he confirmed that it's TMS. In your doctor's terms, "It's all in your head". Your doc has probably never heard of Dr. Sarno, or if he has dismissed him because it would turn his practice up-side down. Dr. Sarno prescribes meds. Mild anti-depressants have been shown to be helpful in relieving back-pain undoubtedly caused by TMS. The doctor didn't find anything seriously wrong with you, why aren't you happy with that news?
I have no clue. I noticed my feet werent tingling an numb while trying to sleep or this morning. That is good news. I've never had so many symptoms all at once and I guess that threw me off from accepting it as TMS. Now that I think of it. It was good news. Thanks.
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| jjh2go |
Posted - 06/28/2011 : 13:13:42
I'm surprised the topic of your back didn't come up during these exams. A herniated disc could be causing these problems. TMS could also be causing these problems. I would think you want an MRI of your low back and a consultation with a TMS doctor to figure it out. Keep in mind that erection problems aren't a good sign. That could mean a stenosis of the spinal chord, which could be from different causes. I suppose it could be from TMS as well, although I haven't seen anyone talk about it.
The problem with TMS is figuring out the difference between TMS and structural problems. |
| tennis tom |
Posted - 06/28/2011 : 11:50:24
I don't see what you're so upset about, he confirmed that it's TMS. In your doctor's terms, "It's all in your head". Your doc has probably never heard of Dr. Sarno, or if he has dismissed him because it would turn his practice up-side down. Dr. Sarno prescribes meds. Mild anti-depressants have been shown to be helpful in relieving back-pain undoubtedly caused by TMS. The doctor didn't find anything seriously wrong with you, why aren't you happy with that news?
DR. SARNO'S 12 DAILY REMINDERS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dKBFwGR0g
TAKE THE HOLMES-RAHE STRESS TEST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_and_Rahe_stress_scale
Some of my favorite excerpts from _THE DIVIDED MIND_ :
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2605
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Jiddu Krishnamurti
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| walnut864 |
Posted - 06/28/2011 : 10:10:21
Thanks for the reply Dave.
I had a doctors appointment this morning. He came in. I told him my symptoms. He wrote a prescription and THEN told me to sit on the exam table to check me out. He looked in my ears and mouth and listen to my lungs and heart and it was over.
I asked him what the prescription was. He said it was a muscle relaxer and to take it and come back in a month.
I noticed on my chart he had written "fibro". I got to the car used my phone to look up the prescription. It was savella an snri used for treating fibromyalgia. Im not taking the medicine and I dont appreciate his deception. |
| Dave |
Posted - 06/27/2011 : 14:26:36
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Originally posted by walnut864
I really gotta do some deep soul searching and find out how to just write off symptoms and move on with life. I am hoping that what I am going through mow is nothing more than TMS and that it too like other symptoms will just fade away.
Read this over and over again until it sinks in. |
