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scungileen
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 Posted - 04/20/2012 : 18:49:15
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Hi everyone,
I am brand new to this site. Last night I was so frustrated by the pain that I had been experiencing that I decided to google "stress mainfesting in muscle pain" and up came information about TMS. I quite frankly had never heard of it before.
All my life I have been a nervous person. As a child I used to grind my teeth, as a teenage I developed eczema and then as as young adult I would have to take an aspirin every night before I went to bed or I would wakeup with a headache. I always attributed this to having neck issues.
Then in 2006, due to all of the aspirin over the years, I developed an ulcer and had to have an endoscopy and at the same time I signed up for a colonoscopy. Within a week after my colonoscopy I began to experience urinary tract infection symptoms. My urologist didn't find any evidence of an infection and after several visits complaining of the need to urinate and the feeling of having to void right after I voided, he decided to stretch my urethra. That did not work. Needless to say and to make a long story shorter, I went to my gyno and then to a urogynocologist and then finally to a well-respected urologist at LIJ Hospital. It was a year and a half later, but this doctor did an internal and told me I had pelvic floor dysfunction due to muscle spasms in my pelvis. The muscles were tightening around my urethra and giving me bladder symptoms. I was a very painful time for me. I found it hard to sit at my computer or in the car and sex was not only painful during, but after I was in worse shape. I was also extremely depressed. Armed with my knowledge I sought a massage therapist who helped internally release the trigger points in my pelvis.
On to the next phase. In 2009, just when I was able to keep the pelvic floor problem in better control, I noticed that when my pelvis was calm my neck, shoulder and arm would hurt to the point that I couldn't type or clearn or do anything that taxed my right side. Coincidentally, the entire three months that I was sick with pain from that I did not have one episode of pelvic floor dysfunction. The doctors told me that it was my body's way of coping with one ailment at a time. I always told them that I thought the pelvic floor dysfunction moved to my neck and everyone thought I was crazy. Again to make a long story short, after two winters of the neck, shoulder and arm pain with accompanying tingling and numbness and after many MRIS which proved that I had cervical stenosis I opted for surgery. I felt great afterward and the following winter the symptoms did not return.
However, since my surgery, I have had other problems. When I wasn't experiencing pelvic floor dysfunction, I would get terrible knee pain, or if I was nervous and had no pain, I would feel short of breath, or sometimes the other side of my neck would spasm. About two weeks ago, the neck shoulder and arm pain returned and I freaked out because I thought the surgery corrected all of that. No matter what I did my wrist and thumb hurt as did my arm and neck. After two weeks, massages and muscle relaxers I finally got rid of it. When I finally realized that it wasn't my surtgery gone wrong, but my pelvic floor acting up in my neck, my symptoms seemed to get better.
Oh, I also forgot to mention that when I get severe pelvic floor dysfunction, it sometimes gives me hip pain when I walk. I suppose that is due to the pelvic muscles spasming.
I think I have TMS. Like I said earlier, I never heard of this until last night, but I think I fit the bill. I am a nervous person who worries about everything from my job, to money, to my parent's well-being to my bipolar husband and his mood swings and outbursts. I now believe that all of my pain is from trying to suppress my worries and it isn't working. Believer it or not, I am a funny individual, well-liked, outgoing and I try to stay upbeat. Deep inside, I am a basket case. I internalize my worries and fears and inadequacies and I am constantly plagued by my husband's ever-changing mood swings.
What do you think. Can I be saved by reading Dr. Sarno's book? Should I try therapy? Do you think I have TMS? I'm still indisbelief that there really exists a name for my traveling pain. HELP!!
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scungileen
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Posted - 04/20/2012 : 18:54:42
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| One more thing, I am married for the second time. My first husband lost his job, lost our home and then cheated on me. We had a three year old at the time and quite frankly, I have never gotten over the fear of being homeless again and being without money. If it wasn't for my wonderful family, I don't know where I would be today. My new husband is a great provider, honest, completely committed but has some issues with bi-polar, but a good human being. I think my body is on overload from so many different stressful issues over the years. |
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sickagain
USA
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Posted - 04/20/2012 : 19:34:01
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Some of your story sounds familiar! I think you are a prime candidate for TMS. Read through this forum, and you'll learn a lot. Try to get ahold of the books mentioned in various threads on here...Best wishes for recovery! (pelvic floor dysfunction is my current bugaboo, as it was seven years ago when I got rid of the symptoms via a bit of Xanax, prayer and journaling...currently having more good days than bad, so hoping not paying too much attention to it, etc., is helping.) Hang in there! |
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Busted
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Posted - 04/20/2012 : 22:00:19
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| Sounds like TMS to me. Start reading! |
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Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Neck and Shoulder pai
