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| dgreen97 |
Posted - 05/19/2013 : 18:42:35
my first pain condition began in march 2005 in my feet. went through the myriad of treatments for it, none of them worked including shockwave therapy, custom orthodics, pain medications, cortisone shots, lots and lots of stretching, on and on like everybody else. the pain in my feet began 8 years ago but i stopped worrying about it like 4 1/2 years ago when my eye strain pain began. this could be called the symptom imperative that my obsession switched from my feet to my eyes. shouldn't the foot pain have gone away by now though if this was mind body? i don't obsess about my feet anymore, i dont really worry about them at all, and 4 years later i still have the nail in the heel/arch foot pain that is just as strong as when it first started. the last treatment i did for it before i stopped was i went to the chiropractor and he said my arches were collapsed. he put them back in with some sort of device and for like 20 minutes or maybe a little longer after that my feet did feel better (this could have been placebo i dont know). but the pain came back. chriopractor said he would have to put the arch back in and tape the foot to help it stay that way and thats where i stopped.. i never went back because i was too concerned with my eyes.
so the real reason i think i got the chronic eye strain now is because of the transition of jobs in august 2008. i was doing all standing jobs up to that point, my feet were absolutely killing me, and this opportunity to get a design job came along. i thought to myself "this is the way out of my foot pain.. i wont have to stand on my feet anymore and the chronic pain will be gone". low and behold that first day i worked there, it was a probationary week to see if i was good enough to do the job so it was very stressful, i got eyestrain symptoms that day just like i have now. i started obsessing about them, went down the same path as i did with my feet and exhausted everything you can do (vision therapy, eye stretches, glasses, on and on).
could a real physical problem in my feet have conditioned me to believe that the eyestrain i felt that first day was going to become chronic if i didn't do something about it, or should i still consider the foot pain to be TMS too? its not that im questioning the TMS approach its more like how come a body part that i dont worry about or fear anymore still presents pain symptoms every time i stand for 15 minutes or more. one of the best ways i get out of this pain right now is by distraction. if i walk around the zoo for example though my eyes and my feet are killing me like crazy. so my thoughts on it right now are that my fear of having another chronic pain problem actually created the pain in my eyes when there wasn't pain there before which would explain why i worked on the computer for 14 years every day before i got this job and didn't have eye strain problems but bam, that day i began work there it started up.
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