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molomaf
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 Posted - 12/25/2004 : 10:19:16
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How do I ignore the pain when I cannot walk? My husband is wheeling me into the bathroom on a computer chair. Both my feet are pins and needles and I have the sciatic pain all the way down from my butt to my shin, sometime in the front sometimes in the back. I have not read anything like this, and it's been a week. I am reading MBP, screaming at my brain, crying, and nothing changes.
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polly
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Posted - 12/25/2004 : 12:30:51
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Michelle,
I'm so sorry you're in so much pain. Stay calm. Do you have a tranquilizer you can take? You sound frightened by this and it's completely understandable. You need some way to get a break from it. Chamomile tea? I'm just throwing things out.
The only thing concrete I can tell you is that I've been where you are and this episode will pass.
You're in a bad cycle. The agony is causing fear which is causing the agony.
I'll be thinking about you all day and trying to send as many good vibes as I can. Wish there was more that I could do. I know what you're going through.
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tennis tom
USA
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Posted - 12/25/2004 : 15:26:05
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Dear Michele,
Sorry to hear you are having a TMS flare-up. I am somewhat under the weather myself. How are things going with your daughter home for the holidays? Is she understanding and helpful? Don't underestimate the power of family relatioship stress combined with the holidaze to create quite a potent TMS cocktail of psychogenic pain.
For the last few weeks I have been under a great deal of stress myself. My 84 year old father is starting to have health issues that I will have to start getting involved with, I have an old cat with diabetes that should have been put to sleep long ago but I keep spending a fortune on him anyway and he takes a lot of cleaning up after, and also an impending Federal case. I allowed my immune system to go down and welcomed a flu that kept me in bed for a week and I am now haveing a relapse.
Maybe you should stop fighting it and just go with the pain. Realize its source and be confident that it will pass. Take a time out and pamper yourself. Just stay in bed and read, watch TV or nap.
Sorry that's the best I can do for you right now but I'm not feeling so hot myself at the moment. Don't underestimate the powerful effects of the holidaze on the TMS unconscious.
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Baseball65
USA
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Posted - 12/25/2004 : 17:23:10
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Hi Molomaf.
I have always been an HBP guy,rather than an MBP guy ....I remember when reading MBP,I had the feeling it wasn't as specific in instruction,although it covered a much broader spectrum of TMS related info.I was already healed,so I have no objectivity to which to compare it's effectiveness.
The reason I bring up the difference,is that in HBP Sarno clearly states that when an attack seems to come out of nowhere,the first place to look is into Family dynamics as they are both subtle and powerful.
I have found this to be oh too true,as when the catalyst is some outside source,the symptoms tend to creep in rather than slam me.It seems your situation has unfolded quite rapidly,and I was only waiting for Tom to say something first.
Second,as I said before,you really ought to take a strong painkiller and hit the couch and watch TV or something.
If you get some respite,or maybe not,I'd make a list of every single family member present and otherwise who you think you are NOT mad at,or in NOT emotional conflict with......and than write exactly WHY you're relationship with that person is unmarred and magical.
You shouldn't have to get to far outside the circle to get an answer...if you know what I mean.
Or,maybe pretend it's July 17th of '06 and your writing a letter to your best friend about what happened during the Xmas Holidays of '04.
I don't suspect with your background this would take you to long.....sometimes arguing with the brain and other techniques that might work at one time ,may not be effective,and a new strategy employed for a particularly nasty outbreak.
God Bless
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can't walk / legs buckling
