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tennis tom
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 Posted - 07/14/2010 : 09:20:41
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I have experienced a case of, what I believe to be, symptom substitution. This occurred over a period of about 3-4 months. It began when I woke up with a painful left shoulder. I looked for a physical explanation for it and attributed it to having increased my swimming regimen. During this period I had undergone two cortisone injections for my chronically painful right hip. The second cortisone shot was giving some relief to the hip.
Thinking from a TMS perspective, I viewed this situation as a possible TMS symptom substitution, and apparently it was. The shoulder has been in no way as debilitating as the hip has been, but every morning, trying to use it for leverage to get out of bed, it made it's ugly head apparent. For my tennis, the only use of the left arm is for the ball toss on the serve and it didn't effect that at all.
The beneficial effect of the cortisone injections were fleeting and possibly placebo. Since then, I've had a Synvisc and a Supartz injection, with no discernable positive effects. But, the shoulder is 99% better--I'm clinging to that 1% of pain, as a reminder of the possible TMS substitution effect, otherwise it would have passed into the waste-bin of fleeting TMS distractions. When the TMS gremlin realized the hip was back to being my chronic distraction site, it was able to release the shoulder.
TAKE THE HOLMES-RAHE STRESS TEST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_and_Rahe_stress_scale
Some of my favorite excerpts from _THE DIVIDED MIND_ :
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2605
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Wavy Soul
USA
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Posted - 07/14/2010 : 23:25:03
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I TOTALLY experience symptom substitution. In fact it is the biggest "RAT" that I smelled that led me to suspect my illness pre-Sarno.
It's quite amazing - I have gone back and forth twixt shoulder and mid-back. At first I thought perhaps fixing one was structurally tweaking the other, but ss is a much better explanation.
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Singer_Artist
USA
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Posted - 07/18/2010 : 14:41:04
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TT!!
Boy can I relate..It's either my wrists, or my knee or my neck, or my back or my hip of my skull or a tooth or my feet..OYE VEY!!! What a kvetch I am! Hope you're feeling great by now..I am typing w/ pain in the wrist..screw that TMS Gremlin!
Hugs,
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Symptom Substitution: A Shoulder for a Hip
