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| sickagain |
Posted - 02/13/2012 : 20:45:02
OK...ever since I thought I had a vaginal infection, but tests showed I didn't, I have been using estrogen creams, etc. which are helping with the symptoms. Once that was getting better, I started noticing that if I urinated when my bladder wasn't yet full enough to trigger the urge to go, I had a hesitation in starting the stream and a weak flow. (When I DO have lots of water, and get a full bladder feeling, I go right away, with more normal force...If I make myself relax, it helps.) So now I read online this type of hesitation could be due to pelvic floor dysfunction. I see on here that some feel that is a TMS manifestation. So I will go back to my journaling and quit obsessing about it, and see what happens. I also have been dealing with hemorrhoids around this same time...it's like all my "bottom issues"are hitting at once. Lots of stress from taking care of my elderly mother, lots of health anxieties and hypochondria lately, etc. Sorry to ramble, but I appreciate the chance to unload! Any thoughts? Thanks!! |
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| sickagain |
Posted - 02/14/2012 : 14:21:54
Thanks for the replies...Self-talk, relaxing, and thinking psychological are starting to take the edge off symptoms. I hate TMS and its power, but also am so often thanksful that's "all" it is! |
| tennis tom |
Posted - 02/14/2012 : 08:23:30
Hi Sickagain,
A few thoughts :
Change your monicker from "sickagain" to something more positive like "Wellagain". You can become what you think you are, visualization helps.
In men at least, urinary symptoms caused by the prostrate are a routine part of aging. A doctor I played tennis with tipped me off to Flomax many years ago on a long plane flight. It works like a charm for urinary urgency, increasing the flow, emptying the bladder, not having to go again right away. I've seen commercials for similar meds for women and according to a google search Flomax has been rx'ed for women off-label.
There is a TMS component to urinary urgency besides also being real. It can serve as a great distraction when the sub-conscious needs one. Just knowing I have my Flomax in my pocket on a road-trip serves to lessen or relieve the symptoms. I now very seldom need them.
It's funny, I can play tennis all day long and never have any urge to pee or give it a thought. I know some guys, right before starting every match, have to scurry off to the bathroom--conditioning. |
| Bugbear |
Posted - 02/14/2012 : 01:41:03
I can imagine how stressful care of an elderly mother would be. There may be other strong underlying emotions this is calling up for you. It certainly isn't surprising that you are experiencing some reaction. And physical reactions always hit us in places where we will sit up and take notice...and obsess about them. You thought you had an infection. You didn't. So why continue with treatment of symptoms which are more than likely TMS? Treat the emotional symptoms instead by recognising what they are, having a talk to your brain, reading posts on here and information on the TMS wiki. Don't know if journalling is your thing but lots of people find it helpful. Your anxiety over your physical symptoms will fuel those symptoms so tackle the anxiety. |
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