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flyefisher
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 Posted - 07/28/2006 : 19:17:08
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Great all week. Took a day off the bike, and on that day went to start my psychotherapy. An hour afterwards I got a nasty ache in the low back. The therapy brought out some of the bad feelings from the achy days...
I suppose it's normal during release to have some pain afterwards? I mean, I did nothing unusual or physical all day. |
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lilykins
USA
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Posted - 07/29/2006 : 06:57:47
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| My pain would come back while I was in the car on my way to the TMS workshop I went to. I think my brain was trying to dissuade me from going so I wouldn't be able to get rid of it's gremlin, TMS. |
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marytabby
USA
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Posted - 07/29/2006 : 07:11:02
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| It's the emotions coming to the surface and threatening the concious and trying to get out. That's PROGRESS baby! |
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flyefisher
48 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2006 : 08:20:09
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I was fine for the past two weeks with two exceptions. On my first return to cycling last weekend, which I dissuaded after a day or so. The second was right after my therapy yesterday. The therapy was quite good - I began reminiscing of the times when all my freedom was gone because of TMS and I burst out in tears (no, I'm not normally so fragile). I also reminisced on the time when the pain started, i.e. when my mother in law was living with us right after the birth of our first child. I get home and suddenly have the exact same pain I had back then. The pain had mutated from the achy, bruised feeling I have now to a burning, tightness in the muscles. It's almost as if it changed the nature of the pain to get my attention again because I had successfully thwarted its mutation. But now it isn't going away very quickly. It has once again made driving and bending very difficult.
The question is, do I go easy for the weekend and use the time for rest or do I go out and do things? Biking would be quite painful at this point due to the back flexion. However, I also don't want to be letting this thing back me into a corner again. It's quite amazing how sinister this thing is. |
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Dave
USA
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Posted - 07/29/2006 : 08:33:00
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| You are too focused on the symptoms. Stop trying to keep track of the when/where/how bad of the pain. Just do the work and take a long-term view and ignore the pain. |
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flyefisher
48 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2006 : 09:14:24
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| Thanks - exactly why I find the forum so helpful. Being new to this I still need to be reminded. I "get" the whole TMS thing but sometimes the pain can win and you get distracted. You folks are great! |
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flyefisher
48 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2006 : 16:28:34
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This has been torturing me all weekend. I rode Saturday but it hurt, and it hurt the worst about an hour afterwards. I am mentally handling it better, staying pretty upbeat since this has come and gone in the past anyway... Thinking about and doing other things helps.
How long do these episodes last for you folks and after two weeks into "discovering" my TMS and a very good run of things for a while, is this normal/expected/ok? It's like the gremlin is just shouting louder the less seriously I take him... |
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wolf29
USA
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Posted - 07/30/2006 : 16:37:37
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| The "episodes" can be different for everyone. It all depends on how much emotional baggage we're carrying. What I find interesting in my case, and maybe it's the same for you, is that I feel no pain doing the weight lifting exercises I had feared but will have discomfort later that evening or the next day. I figure it's because I'm expecting things to hurt at some point. If we had true structual issues I would think I shouldn't be able to lift any weight off the ground and you shouldn't be able to complete a bike ride. |
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flyefisher
48 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2006 : 17:03:40
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| I have the same thing. It's like a moving target. Sometimes exercise makes it better, exacerbates or has no negative effect. You try to rationalize it, but it's like you can't put your finger on what makes it bad. There's very little or no cause and effect. |
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Therapy and it comes back
