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| hotshot468 |
Posted - 02/18/2005 : 06:01:50
Can TMS cause ones feet to burn? Sounds crazy -- Thanks JImmy |
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| holly |
Posted - 02/28/2005 : 12:19:15
Colleen,
I vowed not to read anymore posts but when I saw "feet" I couldn't resist. For the sake of not becomming repetitive please check out my past posts. I think you can draw something from them. Especially my foot problems also came after the death of my mother. 2 1/2yrs. have now passed. Still the same problem. Let me know what you think!
Holly |
| Colleen |
Posted - 02/27/2005 : 19:08:30
Dave,
I went back and read page 101. It does talk about the foot and about neuromas. Thanks.
Colleen
Colleen H. Mazzola |
| Colleen |
Posted - 02/27/2005 : 16:43:02
Laura and dave,
Thanks for your responses. Laura, I am touched that you cried when you read my post. You do not always realize how much you are going through when you are going through it. I re read my post and it is sad to think this all happened....and so close together.
Dave, you are right in that Dr.Sarno's book is not meant to be a medical encyclopedia of TMS symptoms. I do see personality traits in there. My grief is often so deep, it is hard to see through it.
Thank You both,
Colleen
Colleen H. Mazzola |
| Dave |
Posted - 02/26/2005 : 07:43:00
Page 101 of The Mindbody Connection discusses tendonitis of the foot, including neuroma. Neuroma is a more specific case of neuropathy (which basically just means something to do with the nervous system).
Dr. Sarno did not intend to write an encyclopedia of medical diagnoses. It shouldn't matter whether or not you see your specific symptom or diagnosis described in his book. It is more important whether or not you see your personality described. The symptoms are tailored to the individual; there is no way that Dr. Sarno could possibly write about all TMS manifestations. |
| Laura |
Posted - 02/26/2005 : 00:35:39
Colleen,
Even if the book doesn't mention neuropathy, that doesn't mean it isn't your TMS manifestation. I've thought for three years that I have a type of vertigo called Mal de Debarquement Syndrome. It turns out I actually have dizziness because of TMS. ANYTHING is possible. I don't think you can ever rule TMS completely out because so many things ARE stress induced. You have been through so much. I cried when I read your post. Please read the book and re-read the book and then read it again. Like Dave says, if you don't see yourself in that book then you probably AREN'T reading it carefully enough. Good luck!
Laura
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| Colleen |
Posted - 02/25/2005 : 20:13:15
Has anyone heard of neuropathy (nerve pain) being a TMS symptom? Has anyone ever gotten that diagnosis? It has now been almost one year with this. I am constantly looking to get off my feet and to put ice on them. I thought that my surgery was responsible....maybe a nerve got hit....but I am reading and re reading Dr. Sarno's book. The book does not mention neuropathy.
Colleen
Colleen H. Mazzola |
| Colleen |
Posted - 02/22/2005 : 11:30:10
Dave,
I thank you for your response and your insight. I will read Dr. Sarno's book more carefully and then re read. Too much on my mind and I probably wasn't as focused as I should be while reading. I was raised not too express to much emotion....although I think I am fairly verbal in that way. I have done a fair amount of grieving, but I know it is a long process. I also feel very alone in this process.
Thanks You Again,
Colleen
Colleen H. Mazzola |
| Dave |
Posted - 02/21/2005 : 16:28:08
Colleen, if you are reading Dr. Sarno's book and don't see yourself in those pages then you probably are not reading carefully enough. It seems that you have a goodist personality, putting others ahead of yourself, even putting your grieving on hold.
You've been through a lot ... no doubt repressing a lot of negative emotions along the way. Keep reading the book; I believe there is a good chance your neuropathy is TMS. |
| Colleen |
Posted - 02/21/2005 : 15:58:22
Dear Laura,
Thank You for your response. Actually, directly following my Mom's death, I did not feel these symptoms....this is strange because I am a fairly sensitive and emotional person, but I didn't even cry at first and she was and always will be, my dearest friend. She was only in her mid-60's and very into exercise and nutrition and ovarian cancer is an awful disease. I had a wake and funeral to plan and there were about 600 people coming because of my Dad's position and all and then I designed her headstone and I had all those thank you's to write and one of my children had started a fund for ovarian cancer in my Mom's name, so we had that to deal with and I have a husband and a home and children to raise and a Dad that was now alone and then I got the news that I had an elevated CA125 blood level and something was going on and so my Doctor scheduled a total hysterectomy and yes, I was very scared, but who could I turn to.....my best friend was gone. It turned out that I had Endometriosis stage III (there are only 4 stages). I should have been in incredible physical pain, but, I guess, I was so consumed by my Mom's suffering and death, that I did not feel my own pain. Shortly after the hysterectomy, I felt fluish....muscle aches and pains that were mostly in my legs....then I decided to go back to walking and the painful, burning feeet started. I have seen about 5 Doctors and a Psychiatrist trying to figure this out. They tell me (their best guess) it is a neuropathy of unknown origin as all test have been negative. How do I know that something didn't happen during surgery, like a nerve was hit or compressed or whatever?? How do you know it is TMS?? I am reading Dr. Sarno's book and I keep asking myself if I fit in here.
Thanks,
Colleen
Colleen H. Mazzola |
| Laura |
Posted - 02/21/2005 : 10:24:32
Colleen,
I read your other post and was going to respond there and then found this one. Since you are new to this forum I wanted to first of all say welcome! This is a wonderful place to turn to when you need questions answered and when you need comfort. I'm curious, was the "burning feet" symptom the first TMS symptom you have noticed? Did it start directly after the death of your mom and your hysterectomy? It sounds like anyone, under those circumstances, would develop physical symptoms. You poor thing!!!
Have you ever read any of Louise Hay's books? Under "foot problems" she writes "Fear of the future and of not stepping forward in life." After the loss of your mother and then the loss of your own ovaries, you had to have been absolutely devastated. Have you allowed yourself to grieve over both of these losses? It must have been so difficult to "move forward" when you had your own family to take care of plus your father.
Well, I just thought I would share that with you to think about. If you can, perhaps you might see a TMS psychologist. I live in L.A. and there is a doctor her, Donald Dubin, who I saw. Perhaps you could get a referral to one (female preferably) through a TMS doctor such as Sarno or Schechter. Good luck to you.
Laura
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| lobstershack |
Posted - 02/20/2005 : 15:04:11
Interesting Baseball: my feet--and sometimes hands--are in an (almost) perpetual state of chill. And I also have the shin/(ankle) pain you described. Positively curious!
Seth |
| Baseball65 |
Posted - 02/20/2005 : 12:48:35
Hi Jimmy.
I used to get the symptoms of Reynauds which is the opposite: frozen feet...I used to get it a lot at work and back then blamed it on the concrete floors.They would get so cold I couldn't feel anything except for a painful stinging sensation on each step.
Fire and Ice...I don't see why a localized blood loss couldn't create burning as well.Similar oxygen debt can create different sensations to different sufferers.
I remember those little diagrams of an androgynous human form we would fill out at the Doctors office....I thought they were so dumb,because the pain felt different at different times of the day.
I distinctly remember rubbing the front of my calves for years,as I had the sensation of broken glass under the skin...they diagnosed it as bone splinters even though none could be seen on X-ray.
You don't sound crazy...the stranger the symptom,the more likely it is TMS...as long as it can keep you good and distracted!
peace
Baseball65 |
| Colleen |
Posted - 02/20/2005 : 12:35:25
Burning feet....neuropathy.....About one year ago following a complete hysterectomy which directly followed the death of my Mom to ovarian cancer, I developed bilateral (both feet) neuropathy. I have been to numerous Doctors and now am seeing someone in Eastern medicine for Shiatsu (which is very similar to accuppressure). I am so frustrated by this neuropathy as I have a family to raise and my Dad is alone now and I am on leave from work because I cannot stand or walk too much. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. I have started to read Dr. Sarno's book and I think it is great, but I am not sure if it applies to my situation.
THANKS,
Colleen
Colleen H. Mazzola |
| Allan |
Posted - 02/19/2005 : 07:24:44
I had a burning sensation on the bottom of my left foot. I believe that it was definitely TMS. Dr. Sarno says that TMS manifests itself in many strange ways. Anyway, it went away in a few weeks.
Allan. |
| Hestia |
Posted - 02/18/2005 : 22:52:14
I had tarsal tunnel (like carpal tunnel but in the ankle instead of the wrist) in my foot which felt like a burning kind of numbness. It felt like I was standing on something warm. It actually spread up my calf a bit after a while. Did the nerve conduction study which gave me the diagnosis and even took neurontin for a while. I am convinced that it was TMS. All of my foot problems went away mostly within a month or so of reading Sarno's HBP. |
| 2scoops |
Posted - 02/18/2005 : 07:21:19
Definetly yes, my feet were burning really bad. I had burning from my low back, down the back and front of the legs, down into both feet, the bottom and top of the feet. Those symptoms are so much better now. Just keep at it, and with time your symptoms will banish. |
