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chicago
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 Posted - 12/19/2004 : 12:00:23
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I have had a history of foot pain and had been diagnosed with nerve damage. All the drugs in the world did not take the pain away until I statred to buy into a mind body connection. Dr. Sarno's book really helped. However whenever I get fearful the pain (burning) reappears. I swore off neurologist, however yesterday I accompanied my dad who has diabetes to leading neurologist who reviewed his EMG , other nerve related tests and gave him a comprehensive examination and confirmed that he has nerve damage. There is no doubt that he has nerve damage he has numbness and loss of feeling. In fact over half of diabetics end up with neuropathy. I was there to support my dad. but as a result I started to project my dad's dx on me. Has anyone had a similar experience? See in the past I had been dx with neuropathy. However I have never had numbness, diabetes, had never failed an EMG, nor had there ever a cause found. They (Mayo) had dx me on my reported symtoms, mainly pain (burning) It took me a long time to get beyond the "expert" and rely on my own experiences. Anyone have a similar experience? I know its my fear and anxiety over what my dad's going through but I can't seem to get beyond this. Any help or suggestions would help me move on. |
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Carol
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Posted - 12/20/2004 : 08:12:02
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Neuropathy is a common result of diabetes. When I first experienced foot pain and tingling one of the first things I asked my doctor for was a 2hr pp blood sugar to see if I might be diabetic. My father was, and he had tingling and loss of feeling in both feet. He did not, however, have pain.
Long story short, I am not a diabetic. My neurologist did find abnormalities on EMG though, and said that I had nerve damage. for a long time this has been a mental stumbling block for me as far as the tingling I have in my left foot. It has not been a problem in getting rid of pain though. Maybe because my Dad did not have pain, I did not believe that foot pain was in any way related to the supposed nerve damage. I have defeated all kinds of foot pain by using TMS thinking in regard to it. I had plantar fasciitis, achilles tendonitis, toe pain, and generalized pain on top of both feet at various times. I have beaten all of it! I now believe that the tingling is also TMS, and that is beginning to resolve.
I have found that the most important thing in beating foot pain is to walk with a normal gait no matter what hurts. When I did this the pain would just disappear while I walked. Then it would sneak in while I was sitting or lying down. Makes a lot of sense!! Then I would just laugh at it and again it would go away.
I did have an episode years ago, before I ever heard of TMS, where I was jumping rope in bare feet (several times over a period of days) and developed pain in the ball of my foot. X-ray showed a stress fracture, so I stopped jumping rope and put a pad in my shoe to keep pressure off the ball of my foot while it healed. As all injuries should, it healed in about a month, and has never recurred. My point with that story is that you can have an actual injury, but it should not persist after a reasonable healing time. If it does, TMS has taken the opportunity to start it's nasty thing!
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tennis tom
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Posted - 12/20/2004 : 08:47:05
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quote from Carol:
"I have found that the most important thing in beating foot pain is to walk with a normal gait no matter what hurts. When I did this the pain would just disappear while I walked. Then it would sneak in while I was sitting or lying down. Makes a lot of sense!! Then I would just laugh at it and again it would go away."
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I agree with you 100% Carol. When I started having hip problems and limping, my tennis coach said, "Tom, don't limp!" I was somewhat dumfounded by this order, but eventually his message sunk in. Limping is a bad habit. In order to break a bad habit you have to consciously stop doing it. My coach has never read Sarno, but he was on the Pro-Tour for five years and has taught tennis for 25 years. He has a keen awareness of what works and why.
Ever since he told me that, I have always tried to not limp. After walking for 10-20 minutes it always melts away, as the TMS spasmed muscles release.
I also had a myriad of pain movements in my hip as you did with your foot. I think in our effort to find a physical cause for our pain we become very familiar with the body part that exhibits our TMS pain. In our honest effort to rid oursleves of the pain we become quite knowledgeable in our anatomy and create TMS movement as we search for the sructural fault. We eventually got lucky and searched out Sarno and continue to tingle a bit as we explore our psyche for the true cause. I'll take the "tingle" over the "pain". |
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