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marytabby
USA
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 Posted - 02/22/2006 : 17:27:07
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Hi all,
This past weekend I was pretty worked up about something work related and although I can't be 100% sure, it seems possible to me that I succeeded in working myself into a full blown cold/flu. I have been bed-ridden for three days and am feeling like this smacks of the old Mary, whereby I used to not only have tons of back and neck pain, which I've gotten good control of, but I used to get tons of colds and flu type illnesses. I have a question. Do I approach this the same way, and get myself out of bed and get to the gym and run, even though I am pretty sick, so sick I can't work? I mean, this is what works for the back and neck and I worked through it. So am I to put that same thinking to the test and force myself to exercise to repudiate the physical part of this or do I treat myself like anyone else would who just has a cold/flu and do rest and fluids? Thanks everyone. |
Edited by - marytabby on 02/22/2006 17:27:35 |
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Susie
USA
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Posted - 02/22/2006 : 17:57:33
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| Sounds like you have the flu. I would take it easy, it's really going around here. I really believe that stress lowers your immune system thus leaving you more suseptable to contageous illness. Just try to be careful to recognise tms symptoms from real illness. I am the first to agree that it isn't always that easy. |
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HilaryN
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/23/2006 : 02:00:17
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I don't know about going mad on the exercise (maybe you could just start by getting up and about around the house.) The main thing is to challenge it mentally, though.
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Dave
USA
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Posted - 02/23/2006 : 07:51:24
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If you have a fever, you have an infection, so it should be treated as such. All of our symptoms are not TMS!
Over time you will learn to recognize the difference between "fake" flu-like symptoms that may be TMS-related, and the real thing. |
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vikki
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Posted - 02/23/2006 : 09:27:05
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Maryalma,
While I don't think that an actual cold or flu is TMS, I agree that stress can compromise your immune system. I'll give you an example: before my wedding, I was worrying obsessively about every little detail. One of the things I worried about the most was, "What if I get sick?" As if on cue, the day before the wedding, I started getting a cold! (The wedding went fine despite that :-) I have no doubt that cold as at least partly psychosomatic in origin. By that, I don't mean "not real" -- but a real infection that ultimately had a psychological cause. Anyway, once you're sick, you do have a real infection. So I think you have to treat it physically -- i.e., I wouldn't go running or anything. But I think it can't hurt to be aware of the connection between stress and your immune system.
Vikki |
Edited by - vikki on 02/23/2006 09:35:18 |
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Question about how to approach cold/flu
