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Nams
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 08/15/2010 : 10:23:24
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Hi,
This is my first time on a forum of any kind but i've been reading this and it is so helpful and reassuring.
I have suffered from what i called RSI in my hands and arms for nearly 4 years since university. It got gradually worse, with doctors just saying that there was nothing i could do and I should just stop typing! It had got to the point at work where I was doing almost everything by voice recognition and was getting very depressed as i didn't see how i could continue in the world of work without being able to type.
I came accross Dr Sarno and his work 2 weeks ago, immediately read his book and it all just made sense. My hands are already remarkably better. I can type for at least 15 minutes without any pain at all (which is a big step for me), type all through the day, and use the mouse for longer as well.
I was just wondering what other people's experience had been with how long it took to experience no pain - either in their hands, or back or wherever the tms is. I know it is very individual and varies from person to person but it would be great to hear from anyone about their experience. Also, what they did after reading Sarno's book to keep up the recovery. I have ordered Amir's book so will get reading that.
Thanks a lot
Nams |
Edited by - Nams on 08/15/2010 15:40:44 |
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tennis tom
USA
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Posted - 08/16/2010 : 10:32:37
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Welcome Nams!
Looks like the RSI contingent is off on vacation to Tahoe or Tuscany or maybe Truckee. They are probably busy playing countless hours of video games, tennis or doing hand-stands now that they have discovered TMS and recovered. I've no experience with the hand stuff, but I can assure you after hitting trillions of tennis balls daily for decades,the "HANDS ARE STRONG" as the Good Doctor would say, and that includes yours!
Summer is slow at all forums and the traffic here is not that busy to begin with. I didn't want to leave you flapping in the wind with that "0" replies to your thread looming like a dark cloud. TMS is all the same no matter what "logical" limb or location your subconscious has picked out for you as a distraction. RSI is one of the TMS locations "du jour" as ulcers were before it.
TMS body sites are culturally proscribed. In Finland where insurance pays for "whiplash" there's a lot of neck stuff, across the border in Lithuania, where they pay no benefits for it there is very little of it.
Physical Injuries give people something in common to talk about in the hot-tub, besides the weather. In Western culture it's not kool to discuss emotional problems. Physical talk allows people to kumbayah, trading info about surgeons, supplements, contraptions, chiros, body-workers, ad infinitum--whatever placebo to better empty your wallet. I can't directly comment on any of these in regards to your wrist since I'm a "hippy": ("significant" arthritis rt. hip).
You are well motivated since, discovering TMS has caused you to post on a forum for the first time. I can relate to that, since millions of posts ago I was a Luddite. I had attempted to get with the computer thing several times but it never clicked until discovering the TMS Help Forum and my first post was also here.
You did an excellent first post and until the RSI'ers return from holiday, search the "Success Stories" and the RSI threads. There is also an active TMS group that meets in London and a TMS practitioner in England by the name of Oldfield. It is always helpful to get the blessings of a white-coat to convince you it's TMS.
Cheers
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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Nams
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/16/2010 : 13:30:38
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Hey tennis tom - thanks so much for the reply. I was getting to the end of a full day of typing and got your post and it really boosted me (and my hands!)
I will keep on reading Sarno, and the forum - and also the really helpful discussion you have going with quotes from the Divided Mind.
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alexis
USA
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Posted - 08/16/2010 : 20:09:06
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Originally posted by Nams
I was just wondering what other people's experience had been with how long it took to experience no pain - either in their hands, or back or wherever the tms is. I know it is very individual and varies from person to person but it would be great to hear from anyone about their experience.
Hi Nams,
A couple of years ago it would have been easy to tell you how long it took - but it all seems so long ago now I can hardly remember. You've probably gone through everything here by now, but my history is in this link:
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2978
I think it was a couple of weeks to see results, and a couple of months maybe to really feel recovered. I had also got to the voice recognition stage - used a roller ball mouse with my foot! Really I barely remember now - have to come back here every now and then just to remind myself.
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Nams
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/17/2010 : 15:09:18
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Hi Alexis,
Thank you so much for that - just read it through and it gave me a lot of hope. Glad everything has worked out and hope to make posts like that in a year or two!
Cheers!
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HilaryN
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/17/2010 : 15:47:56
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Originally posted by tennis tom
Looks like the RSI contingent is off on vacation to Tahoe or Tuscany or maybe Truckee. They are probably busy playing countless hours of video games, tennis or doing hand-stands now that they have discovered TMS and recovered.
That's right. Handstands and capoeira in my case. Or break-dancing in the case of 1 TMS/RSI-er who came to our last London meetup!
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Originally posted by tennis tom
Physical Injuries give people something in common to talk about in the hot-tub, besides the weather. In Western culture it's not kool to discuss emotional problems. Physical talk allows people to kumbayah, trading info about surgeons, supplements, contraptions, chiros, body-workers, ad infinitum--whatever placebo to better empty your wallet.
So true!
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Originally posted by tennis tom
There is also an active TMS group that meets in London and a TMS practitioner in England by the name of Oldfield. It is always helpful to get the blessings of a white-coat to convince you it's TMS.
Next London meetup on 11th September. See bottom of this page:
http://tmswiki.wetpaint.com/page/TMS+Support+Groups
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