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pericakralj
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 Posted - 03/13/2009 : 06:49:10
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Hello everybody.I havent post here for over a year,because i was symptoms free.But these days,i have some troubles again.I am under a lot of stress these days and i figured it out imediatly.
First i had some anxiety attacks.They were very frightning.I couldnt sit or stand in one place,i had some strange felling in my hands and shoulders.Its not pain or numbness,something so strange.I knew it was strees related so i startded psychotherapy with my shrink.Its been 2 weeks and i almost eliminated anxiety totaly.
But now here is the question.Since my anxiety is gone my stomach starded to act very strange.I have cramps in my stomach,and after a while they are gone.But they are here every day at some time.i am afraid i have something more serious.Can it be TMS.I dont have so much apetite,sometime i fell nouses,and i have that cramps thing.
Anyone ever had something like this?
P.S. sorry abuot my english |
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alexis
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Posted - 03/13/2009 : 08:38:13
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Hi pericakralj, stomach issues certainly can be TMS or simple stress related -- that phenomenon is well documented even outside the TMS literature. But that's not to say it couldn't be something else, which really gets to the larger whole-world-view issue that I think is a core of full TMS recovery.
Step 1 which you definitely achieved is accepting some things as definitely TMS and recovering from them. I see steps 2 and 3 as the ability to deal with uncertainty and the ability to deal with a real issue in a non-panic manner. I can't tell from your post where you fall here, but for me at least this was/is a step-by-step process.
If a reasonable option where you live, a single doctor's visit might help calm you. I don't know whether you really mean your "stomach" or your intestines (in US english the word is often used that way, too). But there are certainly a number of non- or only moderately serious things that can cause digestive tract issues of different sorts. And no, I'm not crazy enough to list those on a TMS message board. :)
The TMSer in you probably is picking out the worst case scenarios...but even if "real" the stomach issues still could be trivial. And in the unlikely situation of "real and serious" you would, and definitely should, be able to cope.
My first role models were people who were healthy and new they were healthy. But later I realized the hard task, and the real role models, were those who lived happy lives with either uncertainty or knowledge of illness. Those are the harder ones for us to achieve, but seeing it done by people all around me I find inspiring. |
Edited by - alexis on 03/13/2009 08:44:01 |
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pericakralj
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Posted - 03/13/2009 : 12:09:03
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Thx for replay Alexis.
You are certanly right about these 2 and 3 steps.When i have mine first tms sindromes flare up sometimes,i dont give a damn,and i ignore them greatly.I dont have 1 percent of fear in my self about them,so they are gone very very fast.But when something new comes up,like this,i am freaking out.When this anxiety started i tought that i will get crazy,that i will never get better and stuff like this.But after 2 weeks i am almost all ok.And when this stomach trouble started,instead of learning from the past that fear wouldngt get me anything good,i panic again.
That annoyes me very much.Why cant i be normal and dont panic.It is step by step proces for sure,and i guess we have to work on it for a long time before we can change our selves on that matter.
If my stomach dont resolve these days i will of course go to the doctor to check is everything ok,at least,in my country we have very good doctors,at low prices.But i can bet its TMS.we will w8 and see.
Thx one more for the answer. |
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alexis
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Posted - 03/13/2009 : 12:36:57
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Originally posted by pericakralj
That annoyes me very much.Why cant i be normal and dont panic.It is step by step proces for sure,and i guess we have to work on it for a long time before we can change our selves on that matter.
Yeah, I know the feeling. Still sometimes if I start to overreact I have to stand back and say "OK, how do the normal healthy happy people react to these situations". And then it's time to put that in a box, make an appointment if necessary, and move my brain on to the real work, worries, fun, happiness or enragements that my life *should* be focusing on. But it's that snap that can be hard to make. |
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Here after a while.
