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cfhunter
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 Posted - 10/02/2007 : 19:28:38
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Briefly:
Bent over Sunday 10 days ago to pick up a sock or something like that before going to the zoo with my son.... ouch. "catch" in my back"
Hurt all day but nothing MAJOR....
every day got worse until Weds. when I couldn't roll over in bed or get up without major assistance.
Went to the doc to make sure I didn't have anything serious going on. Confirmed pulled muscle or something like that....had one massage to relax my HEAD more than anything b/c the pain was still severe when I got up from it and I knew it would be.
Went to bed Friday night and told myself..."When I get up to go to the bathroom I will tell this pain to "F*&^ off and tell it to bring it ON if there is something in my head that needs attention"
Woke up with 50% LESS pain the next morning.
Did this all day the next two days and it was GONE one week later from the time it started.
I walked every day no matter how bad it hurt.
I have had a neuroma and THIS go away by treating it this way.....
just a little happy jump and a hop that I was able to beat this booger at least on a couple things.
My teeth are still a mess though.
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mamaboulet
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Posted - 10/03/2007 : 07:25:00
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Your teeth thing interests me. I didn't go back and find the teeth thread.
I have less than half of my original teeth left due to periodontal disease. But get this. The periodontist who did a bunch of my work about 15 years ago said that the damage was from a rare form of juvenile periodontal disease that apparently struck me between the ages of 10 and 14. Well well. The gastroenteritis and the asthma both came on at age 12, as did the intense recurring nightmares. Add in the periodontal disease and I think it is quite an interesting package.
I've never met another person who had this so-called rare form of periodontal disease. For all I know, it doesn't even exist. Just another name for some thing that somebody gets when they shouldn't get it.
I'm beginning to be increasingly interested in why all of my TMS equivalents started at age 12. Much of my childhood trauma occurred much earlier (I'm guessing ages 4-7)but I remained a sunny little kid until age 12, at which time I started developing into an anxious, bottled up person who went out of her way to spend time alone. Weird. I think I need to spend some time thinking about that. What was the trigger? Adolescence? |
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cfhunter
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Posted - 10/03/2007 : 13:59:28
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Funny you say that about juvenile Peridonatl disease. I JUST read about it today. Thing is..with teeth and with ME in particular. EVEN if the x ray is normal a tooth can be messed up. So the fear is a huge hurdle for me b/c even if a dentist, endo. etc says it looks fine and I continue to have weird pain off and on how do I determine if it is just TMS acting up and not something that could cause me to lose more teeth?? That is the most awful part about mouth pain besides that it is the WORST pain in the world.....
the NOT knowing for sure and having no WAY of knowing for sure unless they open up my teeth and I spend thousands on procedures I may or may not need.
I am $6,000 into it OUT of pocket on ONE tooth as of today and the tooth got pulled last Tuesday. How is THAT for a pain the wallet?
It had a definitive fracture or I wouldn't have pulled it but the rest of my problems with my mouth are not so clear and I am REALLY struggling.
I started with the IBS, ear ringing, not sleeping, OCD and anxiety when I was only 7 or 8.
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lidge
USA
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Posted - 10/03/2007 : 15:09:48
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Im new to these forums but every time I read someone's story a little bell goes off.
Mamaboulet- in my quest to get at the source of my back pain, I had a hip xray. The radiology report saw deformed femoral heads and said I had avascular necrosis. A subsequenet MRI said it was not avascular
necrosis but the aftermath of a childhood leg disease called Legg-Calve-Perthes. I took the MRI to orthapedist who said I had it as a teen. This sounds like your rare tooth disease!
Well- I have no memory of this disease nor does my older sister. My parents are dead so can't ask them. But bottom line, is this TMS equivalent? All my reading says this is rare in girls and it seems unlikely that I would not have had leg or hip pain back then. We are talking more than 30 years back at least. In any case, it seems my hip is otherwise normal and not arthritic despite severe degeneration in my neck at least.
This has been freakish and frightening to see the secrets our bodies hold- or is it just in our quest for physical answers we discover things most people would if they bothered to look? Is it just that
those with TMS much more likely to be scanned, MRI'd etc? |
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la_kevin
USA
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Posted - 10/03/2007 : 15:18:12
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"Is it just that those with TMS much more likely to be scanned, MRI'd etc?"
People with pain are more likely to be scanned. If nothing was wrong, people wouldn't get MRI's.And plenty of people without TMS or pain have been scanned and find nothing. |
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Absolute TMS back problem
