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Lou
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 Posted - 01/07/2005 : 20:14:36
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I am curious as to what other people have done when presented with a new physical issue. I took a fall in a darkened garage a few weeks ago and smacked my knee on the concrete. It barely swelled, but hurt pretty good. I didn't skip a beat as far as my activities go. I bike almost everyday, but as a probable TMS carryover from the hectic holidays, I have been having some pain in that knee that has been bothering me. The pain is not terrible, but I have let it into my head, and I have to re-take control.
Have some of you lightened up on your activities when new symptons appear? I have working with TMS for almost 3 years and have overcome a variety of symptons, including the original pain I had that brought me to Dr. Sarno.
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Baseball65
USA
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Posted - 01/07/2005 : 22:24:35
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Hi Lou.
Everytime I took it easy,i inevitably found that I had been tricked...it was always TMS in the end,though at the time it seemed so physical.
I had a bunch of walls collapse on my shoulder and back at work.. they guessed that weighed 800-1000 lbs.
I instantly assumed I was fine,and went about my job(didn;t even go home for the day...bleeding and all)
Two weeks later,my hand that had been pulled the wrong way,sort of hyper extended was excruciating....couldn't open the pressure pot that I work with every day.I took time off....4 weeks??
The hand specialist I saw said I was taking longer than he thought for the tendons to heal....from then on I assumed my brain had "latched" on to it,and treated it as TMS...and it was gone in a week or so.
It's always when you don't heal in the assumed timeframe that you should be suspicious.Falling on the concrete hurts....but only you know how hard you fell.You'll know deep inside what's right.
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Lou
USA
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Posted - 01/08/2005 : 07:47:09
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Thanks...
Stopping or drastically reducing activity does seem to play right into TMS's "hand".
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Dave
USA
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Posted - 01/08/2005 : 09:49:49
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It's certainly possible there's some residual pain from the injury if it was a bad contusion.
Sometimes you just don't know where "real" pain ends and TMS pain begins. I had some bad ankle pain last week a couple days after trying a new elliptical machine at the gym (which turned out to be uncomfortable for me). Was this TMS grabbing an opportunity to give me a new symptom that I would gladly attribute to using a new exercise machine? Or did I actually strain my ankle in some way?
I was pretty sure it was TMS but still I took it easy on the ankle for a few days and the pain subsided. I went back to the gym and used the treadmill instead  |
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Facing a new challenge
