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| balto |
Posted - 11/02/2011 : 09:20:35
I have suffered from many different types of tms/anxiety symptoms over my many years of suffering. I have to say the one that bother me the most, the one that take me the longest time to overcome is tinnitus and foggy head. They used to come together. They are not painful like many other pain symptoms but somehow I just couldn't think clearly with my head while having them.
I'm so glad they decide to leave me.  |
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| balto |
Posted - 11/10/2011 : 08:14:32
I don't know what is the cause of your night sweat but when I suffered from PTSD, I used to have lots of nightmare waking me up all sweating and then feel like S... the rest of the day.
PTSD is a severe form of anxiety. Wars, Traumatic events, big losses in life, witnessing some shocking events.... can be the cause of PTSD. Lots of guilt feeling, very low self esteem, nightmare, withdrawal, agrophobia... are few of the symptoms.
Some how our mind, our thougth got locked into to focusing on those traumatic events and we got all these symptoms. Isolation is the big cause of why some got PTSD and other don't even if the two experience the same trauma. To get over it We need to get out more. We need to Build a strong, close social connection, connect with people who care and understanding. We need to force ourself to face our fears (some Vietnam vets went back to visit those old battlefield locations and cure their PTSD). Go with someone you trust to the place that the traumatic event happen. Prepare to observe your symptoms, your feelings while there and "float" with it. Recognize that you're not alone in your suffering, million in the world experiencing the same thing all the time.
The main point is fill your mind with positive thoughts, hopeful thoughts, peaceful thoughts... getting busy, by being with friends and loveones, socialize, join clubs, associations... Do volunteer works to improve your self confidence, to say to yourself that you're worth something. You can help and there are lots of people worse off than you.
Once you're able to break the focus your brain have on those traumatic events, the nightmare will stop. Dream are mostly the reflection of your thoughts while you're awake. Someone told me Mother Teresa never have nightmare and she witnessed lots of traumas in her life helped all those unfortunates in India.
Trash in , trash out. Don't put trash in your mind. Take control of your thinking and if you can't then help your brain out by doing activities I mention above to help you live a life conducive to being happy and positive.
Goodluck. |
| scman |
Posted - 11/08/2011 : 18:16:50
just wondering anyone here ever have night sweats all feel like hell the rest of the day after you wake up symptoms |
| RageSootheRatio |
Posted - 11/08/2011 : 10:08:32
WOW Balto, actually yes, you're right about the PTSD. I didn't think it would be that obvious to you. Since posting the other day, the more severe hyperarousal symptoms have been gone for most of the day again. Usually it's been bad right on awakening but then once I'm up and about the days have been much better, so that's been a relief. I think I had just gotten too hung up on trying to "MAKE" the symptoms go away and so once I backed off, then they found it easier to go. :o) It was kind of a recent and surprising "flare-up" and so I had kind of forgotten what to do or something.
One thing that seemed to really help was what you had written on another thread:
quote:
"I didn't fight it. I approached it with peace and calmness. When I had symptoms I just slowed my thinking down and observed my symptoms. I acknowledged that it is there and then I accepted the fact that it will be there for a while.
Thanks again for your all your very helpful and encouraging posts to others! |
| Wavy Soul |
Posted - 11/07/2011 : 20:35:46
anxiety
Love is the answer, whatever the question |
| balto |
Posted - 11/05/2011 : 10:38:03
quote:
Originally posted by RageSootheRatio
Balto, yes THANKS I have really gotten a lot out of your posts to others! About the "hyperarousal" ... I guess it would be some kind of "anxiety" ? It's like my body is speeded up... maybe a feeling of very heightened arousal, almost like having WAY too much caffeine (even if I haven't had any), but not really accompanied by any particularly overt conscious fear or anxiety-driven thoughts. It's just a feeling of my heart racing, "fingernail sensitivity", a too-quick startle response, being "revved up" / kind of very excited feeling for no particular reason. I often wake up in a state of hyperarousal like that, and it kind of fades after I get up and get going with my day. Seems to come and go during the day when I have this symptom. Sometimes the symptom seems to be with me for days/weeks? at a time. Had it for quite a few years, and it was more of a really big annoyance than anything else I think. (Certainly was not like having the chronic pain for which I was seriously seeking relief.)
Tried lots of relaxation type things, but I think that TRE (Trauma Release Exercises) for those hyperarousal symptoms helped the most, for a while. (Long thread on that if you look in the archives.) But I guess this symptom has recently come back for a longer period of time so that's why it's on my mind again and "is the symptom I hate the most" (just because it's the uppermost one hanging on. Actually, the headaches I used to have could be pretty debilitating so maybe I did hate those the most!) Anyway, I guess the hyperarousal is just another manifestation of TMS ... Haven't put a lot of energy into working on it again, but re-listened to my Claire Weekes audio recently, which I haven't done for years... And have started doing the TRE exercises again too, but not in earnest, just "dabbling" ... guess it doesn't bother me enough yet or it's not so bad right now that I have wanted to put a lot of energy in working on it / thinking about it...
From what you've described up there, I'm guessing you are having (or had) PTSD. I had that and it can be cure too. Goodluck to you Rage. |
| wrldtrv |
Posted - 11/04/2011 : 16:17:11
You might also have your thyroid checked. I think hyperthyroid can also manifest some of that hyper-arousal. I'm no doc, and what you have is probably purely psychological, but it might be worth a check. |
| RageSootheRatio |
Posted - 11/04/2011 : 14:24:22
Balto, yes THANKS I have really gotten a lot out of your posts to others! About the "hyperarousal" ... I guess it would be some kind of "anxiety" ? It's like my body is speeded up... maybe a feeling of very heightened arousal, almost like having WAY too much caffeine (even if I haven't had any), but not really accompanied by any particularly overt conscious fear or anxiety-driven thoughts. It's just a feeling of my heart racing, "fingernail sensitivity", a too-quick startle response, being "revved up" / kind of very excited feeling for no particular reason. I often wake up in a state of hyperarousal like that, and it kind of fades after I get up and get going with my day. Seems to come and go during the day when I have this symptom. Sometimes the symptom seems to be with me for days/weeks? at a time. Had it for quite a few years, and it was more of a really big annoyance than anything else I think. (Certainly was not like having the chronic pain for which I was seriously seeking relief.)
Tried lots of relaxation type things, but I think that TRE (Trauma Release Exercises) for those hyperarousal symptoms helped the most, for a while. (Long thread on that if you look in the archives.) But I guess this symptom has recently come back for a longer period of time so that's why it's on my mind again and "is the symptom I hate the most" (just because it's the uppermost one hanging on. Actually, the headaches I used to have could be pretty debilitating so maybe I did hate those the most!) Anyway, I guess the hyperarousal is just another manifestation of TMS ... Haven't put a lot of energy into working on it again, but re-listened to my Claire Weekes audio recently, which I haven't done for years... And have started doing the TRE exercises again too, but not in earnest, just "dabbling" ... guess it doesn't bother me enough yet or it's not so bad right now that I have wanted to put a lot of energy in working on it / thinking about it... |
| art |
Posted - 11/04/2011 : 11:52:25
quote:
Originally posted by kesh2
fear is the worst symptom. fear of pain.
Yes, Fear in all it's many-splendored forms. |
| MarkD |
Posted - 11/04/2011 : 09:09:01
sciatica (for lack of a better discription) and the fear associated with that TMS pain |
| kesh2 |
Posted - 11/04/2011 : 07:15:25
fear is the worst symptom. fear of pain. |
| balto |
Posted - 11/03/2011 : 15:35:24
quote:
Originally posted by RageSootheRatio
I guess the one that I would say has bothered me the most is the one that has taken me the longest to overcome, too! That would be what I always called the "hyperarousal" which was / is more annoying than anything, but does seriously detract from my quality of life! I had pretty rapid success with the "sinus headaches" and the chronic "cystitis" I had kind of comes and goes at times, but seems to have been gone for a while now.
BALTO: I just want to say again how much I have truly appreciated your posts, many of which I have saved and refer back to !! THANK YOU !!
I'm glad you found the posts helpful.
What is "hyperarousal" symptoms feeled like anyway Rage? |
| eautmb |
Posted - 11/03/2011 : 03:44:07
I think it has to be my digestive symptoms. I believe that the symptoms that I hate the most are the ones that stay with me the longest or the ones that keep coming back because they tend to be the most effective ones in providing a distraction or scaring me. |
| wrldtrv |
Posted - 11/02/2011 : 19:37:03
I doubt if it could be called TMS, but it would have to be the hypochondria. |
| Goodney |
Posted - 11/02/2011 : 18:19:19
Neck pain, and unpredictable spasms from the base of my skull into the back of my head. Absolutely excruciating and horribly frightening. |
| golden_girl |
Posted - 11/02/2011 : 17:16:42
All my previous incarnations (IBS, headaches, OCD, paranoia, hypochondria) just buggered off - "IC" ie bladder issues is a b!tch and has stuck around for 8 years. So has the anxiety.
"F.E.A.R.
Forgive Everyone And Remember
For Everything A Reason"
Ian Brown |
| Bugbear |
Posted - 11/02/2011 : 16:37:19
Migraines. This is the symptom I have had for the longest time and includes that lovely aura. I have conditioned myself to get these and I don't quite know how to reverse this conditioning. |
| tennis tom |
Posted - 11/02/2011 : 16:17:55
"Clinical depression" |
| RageSootheRatio |
Posted - 11/02/2011 : 15:27:45
I guess the one that I would say has bothered me the most is the one that has taken me the longest to overcome, too! That would be what I always called the "hyperarousal" which was / is more annoying than anything, but does seriously detract from my quality of life! I had pretty rapid success with the "sinus headaches" and the chronic "cystitis" I had kind of comes and goes at times, but seems to have been gone for a while now.
BALTO: I just want to say again how much I have truly appreciated your posts, many of which I have saved and refer back to !! THANK YOU !! |
| jaya |
Posted - 11/02/2011 : 10:38:26
prostatitis and ibs...and the weird vision issues |
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