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YogaLady
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 Posted - 02/27/2008 : 12:36:01
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OK the last time I hurt my right knee I was very upset not at one thing but overall realizing my marriage was dead.
It's been that way - years later - but I stay for a variety of reasons.
Anyway, last night, I was feeling like I haven't jogged in a while and though I do yoga, I felt like I needed to just get up and get moving. So, I jogged on a rebounder and had a slight twinge (nothing I haven't felt before) and it was a second... I kept going and it was fine - I jogged for about 45 minutes.
Went to bed - all was fine (this was about 2 hours later) and then at 1:30 AM I awoke to pain in my knee....excruciating.
I DO tend to have hypochondria where I feel doom and gloom with my health. Like last night I was thinking everything from lyme disease to some horrible joint thing where I will be a vegetable.
I woke and am fine but the knee IS tender. Not pain though.
SO - here I go and ask - is this possibly TMS or whatever this psychological issue is?
I tend to only have an allergy symptom from food when I am stressed (also twice in my life and at same times! The other was within weeks of the knee and the recent was just four weeks ago). Allergy tests show no allergies.
Is it possible that a very unintimate, empty relationship can make one physically ill?
I DO know the only time I get attention from him is with illness - and I am not TRYING to be ill but do you think my body is doing this to get the psychological needs met???
Or am I just F'd up.
ps. I am a marketing professional and am a yoga teacher. I am happy in all other areas of my life except my marriage.
To give you a cliff note: he refused to kiss me from day one and is often extremely neglectful bordering on abuse. Never follows through and lies often. No respect is there an d NO intimacy meaning he isn't into sex, or anything. He comes across asexual. He is not cheating and yes, I did have him tracked for my own peace of mind and health. |
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swmr1
USA
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Posted - 02/27/2008 : 13:58:24
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Wow, that's enough to stress anyone out, YogaLady. And you stay in the marriage for what reason? Kids maybe? That would be so very stressful.
My first thought on the knee pain is that your knee hurt from your jog. Going jogging for 45 minutes after not jogging at all could irritate anyone's knees. Why would you even question that it could be something like Lyme Disease or something life-threatening? The fact that it's tender today and not all-out hurting is good evidence that you probably didn't even irritate your knee enough to warrant any major concern.
I can't tell you whether or not you may have slightly hurt your knee but I will say that your description of your married life is stressful to read, let alone live (I'm sure). I would think TMS could be a definite gremlin for you. |
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mizlorinj
USA
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Posted - 02/27/2008 : 14:58:51
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Hi Yogalady. Sorry to hear about your unhappiness. Which could clearly be a cause of tms or its equivalents. Also, non-TMS pain usually goes away in a few days. (if I try a new exercise program, I am tender for maybe 2 days--but then I'm good as new)
Dr. Christian Northrup (on Oprah a few weeks back) asked a woman who was having some physical ailment (fibroids maybe?) if she was in a dead end relationship or dead end job. Clearly the health professionals are realizing such emotions cause physical problems. (I also met her recently and she is so pretty in person and very funny!)
I also love Louise Hay books on healing ourselves. Your happiness is important and YOU matter! Also, we get what we focus on, so I focus on I AM HEALTHY and MY BODY RENEWS itself. Please don't focus on what dis-ease you have some remote chance of getting!
Any idea why you have hypochondriac tendencies? How about thinking (and feeling) about a particular fear. . . really feel if it's fear, or anger (or sad or guilty) and see if you start writing about it if something else comes to you. Can you tie this to some past experience that you are (consciously or unconsciously) reliving? There is usually an underlying circumstance under such feelings. And it is quite common.
All the best on the road to healing,
-Lori
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vikki
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Posted - 02/29/2008 : 20:05:41
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YogaLady,
I experienced knee pain while training for a marathon in the fall. I tend to be a hypochondriac too. But this time, I just popped some Advil and stuck to the training schedule. After a week of hard training, ending with a 20-mile run, the pain was gone. Was it a "real" injury or not? Frankly, I don't know, and I don't much care. Running does stress your body, and that stress ultimately makes your body stronger, but my theory is that when you're a hypochondriac (like me), all those minor stresses get amplified in your brain and probably hurt much more than they should. (I read an article in the New York Times in which several orthopedist/sports medicine doctors who were interviewed said that it's perfectly fine to run through minor injuries.)
I don't know if your knee problem has a physical cause or not. (If it does have a physical cause, it's probably just a minor tweak that your mind is amplifying because of your fears -- I'm willing to bet you *don't* have Lyme disease!) I would ignore it -- take a painkiller if necessary and go about your daily routine. Physical or not, the less attention you pay it, the less power it has over you.
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new; is this TMS???
