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Carolyn
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 Posted - 02/01/2005 : 12:00:34
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I have had tremendous success with 'curing' (or at least managing to the point that it does not affect my life) my long-standing pelvic pain using the TMS approach. I had also been dealing with a back/hip problem which had been diagnosed as so many different things but was clearly TMS. I really feel like I have incorporated TMS thinking into my life and have found that I don't really have bad knees, my acne cleared up and I no longer eat to deal with emotions etc... I have resumed a joyful, active life.
A week and a half ago we had a big snowstorm here, my husband was out of town so I spent 2 1/2 hours snowblowing and shoveling the heavy snow. My back was sore the next morning which didn't surprise me and I expected it to go away. But instead it has been intensifying to the point that I can't work out and even walking and sitting is tough. It is no longer just sore muscle but now is a much sharper pain that radiates through my hip and down my leg. So what I am wondering is, is this now TMS taking advantage of a real stress to the body to get a new foothold- one that I might believe or is this a real injury that just needs more time to heal? How do you tell the difference? How do I know whether to push through the pain, letting the TMS know I am on to it or whether to take it easy.
Having been down this path before, I have no doubt that I could go to a doctor and be diagnosed with some syndrome and start on some new treatment etc, etc.. But I KNOW what healed me before was quitting all such therapies and taking back control of my own body. Should you suspect it is TMS when an injury lingers longer than you think it should or if it starts to get worse rather than better? Does anyone know what that cutoff should be?
I am not under any particular stress right now and in fact, due to all the 'soul-searching' and journaling I have done as part of my TMS work, I am a much happier person now. I do find that this injury is starting to take on some of the characteristics I associate with TMS. Namely, I am starting to obsess about it and feel exasperated that is still hurts which leads me to begin to worry that this will become a new long-standing probem. It also distracts or keeps me from participating in some aspects of my life (It got me out of shoveling when the next snowstorm hit). TMS or not, Pain hurts and pain evokes the emotions of anger and dispair.
Any advise out there? Thanks.
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Albert
USA
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Posted - 02/01/2005 : 16:07:28
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You might have some soreness after shoveling snow, but it should last just a couple of days. I doubt the pain would go down your leg. That's probably TMS trying to make use of an opportunity.
The pain you get from overworked muscles does seem to be different from TMS pain. Overworked muscles don't tend to spasm. They're just sore. Plus TMS muscles seem to be sensitive, while overworked muscles aren't. |
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Baseball65
USA
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Posted - 02/01/2005 : 16:41:12
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That is clearly TMS. There is no sorenes that 'evolves'..when your sore,it is just the muscles you overused,and rarely lasts more than 3 days(and that would be like 10 100 yard sprints after not running for a year)..and soreness' last symptom isn't pain..it's stiffness.
This was clearly just a trigger for some other repressed anger.Just because you are under no particular stress doesn't mean that he factory is closed down.\
Treat it and beat it...you'll always win!!
peace
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How can you tell if a new pain is TMS?
