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jennypeanut
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 Posted - 01/04/2013 : 13:57:55
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I'm wondering if night sweats can be TMS. I've been having them lately and my run-away-train brain has been frightened by them. I've had them before over the years, especially during the last 3 agonizing anxiety filled years. I remember from the past finding out that night sweats can be from "underlying health problems" dun-dun-dun-DUUUUUNNNN! So of course my mind easily goes down that path even after months of reprogramming my brain to not run down the worst case scenario rabbit holes. Why is it so easy to go back to fear of the physical? I keep telling myself I'm living a new way - choosing a new life. Yet I find I so easily go back to the old ways.
I am having major relationship stress right now with marriage and also financial stress. When I sleep on the couch by myself I don't get them! Only when in my own bed with my major relationship stress right next to me!!
Having trouble with forgiveness too with said stress. It's like my mind-body cant' bear to be next to the cause of the stress (physically).
Anyway... thoughts? |
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shawnsmith
Czech Republic
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Posted - 01/04/2013 : 14:52:26
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SteveO says in his book that he assumes all of his symptoms are TMS unless proven otherwise. In other words, the default diagnosis is TMS unless it can clearly demonstrated that it is not. Please read this post and pay close attention to Dave`s comments: http://tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7963
Note where he writes, TMS is a clever process and will continually seek out new symptoms that will serve the intended purpose when the old ones are no longer bothering you. Once the mind hits a symptom that you truly believe has a physical or structural cause, it will continue to give you that symptom until you accept that it is benign.
In the meantime, take a look at this photo:
http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/563377_455052871181176_748054029_n.jpg |
Edited by - shawnsmith on 01/04/2013 14:55:06 |
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susan828
USA
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Posted - 01/04/2013 : 17:15:10
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| Jenny, I looked at your profile and you are too young for menopause night sweats so it isn't that. If it only happens when you are with your husband, sounds like pure anxiety to me, nothing medical or sinister. If you were sick, it would happen on the couch. I've been there...not with sweating but severe anxiety waking up and seeing someone I wanted out of my bed and house and didn't have the courage to break it off. I am sorry you're experiencing this and hope you resolve it. The worst place to be is in limbo with a decision. |
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chickenbone
Panama
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Posted - 01/08/2013 : 17:26:46
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I can relate to this also. I am at the tail end of menopause and also live in a very hot climate. However, ever since I was a child, whenever I would become extremely stressed or frightened, I would break out in a sweat. Right after my first husband passed away at 32 from cancer, I had terrible night sweats for several weeks, and intermittently after that. I remember thinking that maybe I had developed lymphoma also, as night sweats can be a symptom (this is what my husband had) But I did not have it, it was TMS or just plain old anxiety.I think some people run to this.
In fact, right now, I am having a bout with daytime and nighttime hot flashes. Maybe this is because I have been working so hard on my TMS and my sleep anxiety. Whenever I work particularly hard on my TMS, my mind fights back by giving me some really scary symptoms, hot flashes and night sweats is one of them, to try to get me to back off. It can make for some really uncomfortable times and sometimes I have to back off a little just to get my rest back.
I hope this helps a little. Best of luck to you. |
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