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SwissMike
Switzerland
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 Posted - 06/01/2007 : 06:10:59
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Hi again!
As some of you may know I am suffering from severe pain in my hands / arms, also known as RSI. I recently found out about TMS and read all the information I could find. I also started to keep a daily journal of what's going on in my life.
3 days ago the pain changed. I am having headaches 24/7 since then. The good thing is that the RSI pain is usually 90% gone while suffering the headaches. The bad news: The headache is even worse than the RSI pain because it can be very disabling and often I can't even say to me 'It's nothing really, just TMS' without increasing pain. The funny thing is, when I am very distracted, mainly while driving a car, the headaches are completely gone. They return 10 seconds after getting out of the car.
So, what now? Should I just keep going? That's pretty hard when your head feels like it's going to explode any time. |
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shawnsmith
Czech Republic
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Posted - 06/01/2007 : 06:45:25
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Yes, keep journaling, and I recommend you do so for the rest of your life. I have over 2500 pages on myself in the past 4 years. A change in the location of the pain or its intensification means that you are making progress but that the brain is working hard to distract you. (look up the term symptom imperative in Dr. Sarno's work) Stay the course on your mental work and you will succeed. Don't try to place time limitations on yourself because, irnonically with TMS, the more you want the pain to go away the longer it will linger. In your journaling don't write about pain at all as you will draw attention to it. Your goal is to draw your conscious attention away from the physical and unto what is taking place in the psyche. Also, the best advice Dr. Sarno ever gave was to "resume all normal physical activity" as it is your way of telling yourself that you are fine and that, in the course of an activity, you cannot hurt yourself.
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Sarno-ize it!
Do you have a pain-prone personality?
http://www.bradyinstitute.com/aboutBook/painProne.asp |
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tennis tom
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2007 : 09:07:05
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Hi SwissM,
Shawnsmith X's 2.
Headaches are really uncomfortable, I had one last week, took a nap, then I got indegestion. I wasn't too concerned because I knew I would let the dis-comforts go away relatively quickly and that there were some TMS overlays.
Paying attention to your pain relocating to new locations as a result of the symptom imperative is hopefully giving you your personal clinical proof of the existence of TMS and how the gremlin is playing you. You are a TMS beginner and just being exposed to the fundamentals and the rules of the game. READ-READ-READ ! the rule books: books by the TMS Pro Doctors. Then get out on the playing field and PRACTICE-PRACTICE-PRACTICE !
From my understanding, if, you were one of Dr. Sarno's patient's, he would NOT want you to suffer the pain in silence. He would give you some pain killing meds to help you out...but with the full understanding that the source of the pain is TMS psychosomatic, due to mild O2 deprivation (or what-ever)...harmless...but very painfully real.
I can't recall what pain-killer's he prescribes to his patients, maybe someone here can help us out, and you can ask your doc for an RX of the same.
Looking forward to getting back to Switzerland someday for fondue and some nice tennis places like Gstad. I think a former great US player, Budge Patty, is an ex-pat there. You guys must be quite proud of Roger Federer, who is talked about as being the greatest player of all time. Looking forward to seeing if he can beat Nadal on the red clay at Roland Garos. The Swiss Miss, Martina Hingis, is one of my fav's too.
Good Luck!
tt 
Some of my favorite excerpts from " _THE DIVIDED MIND_ " :
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2605
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armchairlinguist
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2007 : 10:49:58
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I don't think Sarno prescribes pain medication; he recommends OTC pain meds if really needed to reduce the distraction enough to do the work. SwissMike, sounds like you may need that at this point if you can't concentrate, but it's important to remind yourself at the time you take meds why you are taking them, and follow up by doing the work.
On the plus side, it's now 100% clear you have TMS! The symptom imperative is so obvious here. If you can, give a good laugh at its tricks being so easy to see through.
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