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celloLWF
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 Posted - 10/01/2007 : 16:29:31
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So, I've had chronic ringing in my ears for 15 years...I'm 25. I recently cured myself RSI (YES!) just by reading Sarno's books and watching the 20/20 video about 30 times. (I had RSI for 2 years, a nightmare)
My next project is to get rid of the ringing in my ears. I am 90% sure it's TMS, but I haven't figured out how to stop it.
Like the RSI and back pain issues I solved, it helped to HEAR about the specific issue and how it isn't anything physically 'wrong' with me. The bit in Sarno's books about ringing is very brief, and since he is a back doctor I am not surprised. What I would like is to hear from any of you wonderful TMS peers if you have had the ringing, and how did you deal with it?
MUCH THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!! :)
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Allan
USA
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Posted - 10/01/2007 : 17:12:34
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As a result of a stroke, I was only daily aspirin. After a few months of this regimen, I started getting a ringing in the ears. I never had it before.
It can be a torture as anyone who has had it knows.
I stopped taking aspirin after a year, but the ringing continued. I had it for six more years then I got back pain. Knowledge of Dr. Sarno's books took away my back pain. The ringing in the ears disappeared at the same time.
My mytral valve prolapse (MVP)(slight heart murmur caused by incomplete closing of the heart valve) disappeared at the same time. So there is a lot to be said about the reaction to Dr. Sarno.
There really isn't much that one can do about ringing. It is difficult to challenge it. Maybe applying Dr. Sarno's techniques (Chapter 4 of the Divided Mind) can help.
Allan. |
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celloLWF
USA
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Posted - 10/01/2007 : 21:12:28
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i'm gonna get that book next. I suspect one needs to invest sometime and thought, and practice to get rid of it.
When I solved the RSI, i spent a week thinking about it, then one evening I mustered up a UNBELIEVABLE amount of confidence, positive thinking, courage, anger, power, just surging through my body. that's when it ended. I think the ringing will need the same approach, or perhaps something similar. It takes time and patience, yes?
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armchairlinguist
USA
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Posted - 10/01/2007 : 23:52:57
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Congrats on getting rid of the RSI! It's always great to hear about more successes.
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jcjones0399
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Posted - 10/02/2007 : 19:18:22
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| I noticed ringing in my ears probably ten years ago. I remember reading a Readers Digest article on Tinnitus and thinking, boy that would kinda suck and then days or weeks later (can't remember), but not long, I noticed ringing in my ears. haha, I'm serious can you believe that? It bothered me a lot at first, but I grew used to it over the years and rarely think about it. Also, have had bouts with pelvic pain and what felt like a pain in my butt. A couple doctors called it prostatitis, of course nothing worked, antibiotics, anti-inflamatories, basically just went away after god knows how long. Then over the last few years I have developed sciatic discomfort in my right leg, was convinced I herniated a disc after golf, but of course with this nothing seems to work. Read Sarno's book and really thought it sounded like me to a tee, but I haven't been able to lick it. If this leg discomfort had been the first thing I ever experienced, I probably would have never paid any attention to the mind/body connection, but with my history of "stuff", I just started not to believe what I was experiencing. Well I'm still working on it, but I think I have a plan to beat it. Not sure if I answered any questions, but I think ear ringing, sciatica, back pain, rsi, all this stuff is interleaved |
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shawnsmith
Czech Republic
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Posted - 10/03/2007 : 09:09:01
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Originally posted by celloLWF
I am 90% sure it's TMS, but I haven't figured out how to stop it.
To my knowledge, there is no separate method of treating one TMS manifestation over another, at least from the psychological perspective. You would use the same methods to rid yourself of the ringing in your ear as you did with your RSI as the are psychological equivalents of one another.
A lot of times I think it has a lot to do with a person's conviction as to whether the symptom is TMS or not. For example, Dr. Sarno writes about foot pain- something I suffer with constantly- to be a TMS manifestation, yet it seems that for many- at least in the observation of Dr. Darno- it is harder to defeat than other TMS manifestations. It is difficult, for many, to grasp the concept that foot pain could be the result of repressed emotions. As a result, foot pain can linger longer for some patients.
This could be the issue with you also.
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Sarno-ize it!
Read chapter 4 of Dr. Sarno's "The Divided Mind." Also chapers 3, 4 and 5 in Dr. Scott Brady's "Pain Free For Life" are very important. |
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Stryder
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Posted - 10/06/2007 : 21:07:25
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Tinnitus is just your ability to hear the background noise in your hearing system, thats all. Maybe you are more sensitive to it, or you learned how to hear this noise somehow. The bottom line is you should just ignore it and go on with your life.
When you listen to the ringing, you are focusing on the ringing, and then you hear the ringing. Then you obsess about the ringing, and wonder if you have hearing damage, or maybe something worse. You wonder when the rining will go away. What if it doesn't?!? Maybe you are so focused on the memory of the ringing that your are just vividly remembering the ringing from the past. Either way, there is this ringing that just wont go away. - - You see how this works, how your brain has set up a distraction here - - .
You won't be able to figure out how to stop it. You can't "fix" TMS equivelants just like you cant fix TMS back pain.
Ignore it and march on.
Sarno rocks!
Take care, -Stryder |
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shawnsmith
Czech Republic
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Posted - 10/08/2007 : 07:59:17
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Dr. Sarno lists "ringing in the ears" as a TMS equivalent in his MindBody Prescription. According to Dr. Sarno, a TMS equivalent in another physical disorder which may serve the same purpose as TMS.
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Sarno-ize it!
Read chapter 4 of Dr. Sarno's "The Divided Mind." Also chapers 3, 4 and 5 in Dr. Scott Brady's "Pain Free For Life" are very important. |
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