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JohnO
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 Posted - 06/02/2007 : 08:44:07
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There have been some posts about levator syndrome but most are dated and I was wondering if anyone had any recent success or even lack of in taking this on as a TMS condition. This is a lower GI ailment that is insidiously miserable and without going into all the gory details it is not just pain but muscle spasms that cause awful pressure and suffering. I have attacked this as TMS over the last six months and have improved but, like so many of you with other conditions, it abates for a while and then comes screaming back again. I have seen Dr. Sopher twice and he has helped but his visits aren’t cheap and besides I have read the Sarno books over and over again, so I don’t know how much I would get by going again. I just keep journaling and doing all the rest but on and on the roller coaster goes.
In any event, has anyone had anything like this or know anyone who has? There were some great posts from Carolyn and Suzanne going back to 2004 but not much since. Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I almost envy the back and neck sufferers on this post in comparison (I was a neck sufferer and had spinal fusion twice that was useless and only eventually cured by attacking it as TMS). Levator related symptoms are beyond horrible.
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tennis tom
USA
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Posted - 06/02/2007 : 09:15:52
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Hi JohnO,
It may be helpful to review the Holmes-Rahe list and check-off which life-cycle pressures may be going on in the back-ground of your symptom that may be the TMS psychosomatic cause.
Good Luck!
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From Page 26 of Dr. John E. Sarno's THE MINDBODY PRESCRIPTION:
"Many years ago New York psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe studied the causative role of stressful life events "in the natural history of many diseases." They reported on a list of these events, some of which were negative but many identified as socially desirable and "consonant with the American values of achievement, success, materialism, practicality, efficiency, future orientation, conformism and self-reliance." The list is reproduced here. We postulate that these events produce "disease" through the mechanism of internal rage. The events are listed in order of decreasing stress:
1. Death of a spouse
2. Divorce
3. Marital separation
4. Jail term
5. Death of close family member
6. Personal injury or illness
7. Marriage
8. Fired at work
9. Marital reconciliation
10. Retirement
11. Change in health of a family member
12. Pregnancy
13. Sex difficulties
14. Gain of a new family member
15. Business readjustment
16. Change in financial state
17. Death of a close friend
18. Change to different line of work
19. Change in number of arguments with spouse
20. Mortagage over $10,000 [in the 1960's]
21. Foreclosure of mortagage or loan
22. Change of responsibilities at work
23. Son or daughter leaving home
24. Trouble with in-laws
25. Outstanding personal achievements
26. Wife begins or stops work
27. Begin or end school
28. Change in living conditions
29. Revision of personal habits
30. Trouble with boss
31. Change in work hours or conditions
32. Change in residence
33. Change in schools
34. Change in recreation
35. Change in church activities
36. Change in social acdtivities
37. Mortgage or loan less than $10,000
38. Change in sleeping habits
39. Change in number of family get-togethers
40. Change in eating habits
41. Vacation
42. Christmas
43. Minor violation of the law
Both positive and negative stress generate unconscious anger, whether or not one is consciously angry. Accumulated anger is rage, and frightening, unconscious rage leads to the development of physical symptoms."
Some of my favorite excerpts from " _THE DIVIDED MIND_ " :
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2605
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