Hi, As you all know I have had my bouts with tms for the last year, well forever if you want to count problems I had before. Once tms hit me pretty bad and has not let up since. I am a patient of Dr Sarno's and I will admit I havent been the model patient. But I got more tests done just for my own sanity and all is well. I have been going to pyscho therapy since October and I noticed that my OCD when it comes to losing things and wanting to find them at odd hours of the night and day is gone! My pain does move around but stays in one place until last night when I was talking to a friend about some serious life issues. I felt the pains move around all over to diffrent sides of my chest ribs and even hips! As I went to see my girlfriend and speak with her uncle I noticed I had alot of hip pains but no rib pains. I told it to go away and on the first shot it stayed away for about 30 seconds straight! And that goes for everywhere else as well. Now tms is giving me some major clues that I havent seen before. Its sort of like a realization of some sort. To think my pain went away completly in the same spot it was for a few months to only go to the other side with a somewhat lesser force. But as you know TMS is a tricky beast and this morning I woke up every few hours to go to the bathroom. The first time I woke up with rib pain then the next time I woke up with hip pain. I am so happy that my brain is finally doing this. I feel as if my pains are worst when they happen but when they dont happen they are completly gone with no remants of what was there. Now the only thing I have to deal with is how to not think about it when I don't have it but usually I think of a conversation I had with someone a night before to fend it off and it sort of works. Does anyone reccomend anything? And another question, I notice that when I talk to one friend my pains seem to move around all over the place but when I talk to the therapist it stays in once place. Does this make sense? Anyway thanks for reading. D
what advice can one give? Dr Sarno warned us in advance that the pain would move around when we started to do anything about it, like applying his ideas. Pain moving around is actually a good sign.
Now the only thing I have to deal with is how to not think about it when I don't have it but usually I think of a conversation I had with someone a night before to fend it off and it sort of works. Does anyone reccomend anything? And another question, I notice that when I talk to one friend my pains seem to move around all over the place but when I talk to the therapist it stays in once place. Does this make sense? Anyway thanks for reading. D
You got it on the run. Great job!
I think a goal of yours should be TO think about TMS when you don't have it. I compare it to bending when you have back pain or running when you have knee pain. Show your TMS that you will not be afraid and you will not limit yourself physically OR mentally.
I think the pain moving when you talk to a friend and staying in one place when you talk to your therapist is TMS trying to latch onto some kind of pattern. Don't worry about it. You're almost there because you are discovering it's pattern. Work through it and it will go away.
Thanks for the info guys this is really helping me by less paranoid. I am at complete agreement with TMS now that I have read alot of post with people who have the same symptoms as me ie cracking and pain relief. This is so interesting all my other pains have subsided and are gone today that includes the hip pains that raidiate to my thigh and the lower back pain as well. I find after i write it gets better. You are right TMS has a way of trying to make a pattern so one day you think its this then the next day you are convinced its something else. I guess its good I am going thru this at 22 and not when I am really established. D
Finally a break thru
Posted - 12/09/2005 : 10:54:36
