Symptom Imperatives and Vacation

Hi all!
I went on vacation last week. And when I came back I started a new job this week. I expected that my nervous system would freak out a bit and it did. But I have to tell you one story that happened on the trip.

First, I had a great time. I felt like my symptoms really calmed down once we arrived. We had planned to take the kids to a baseball game. We used to go all the time when we lived there. When we got to the game, a symptom imperative popped up. I decided to take medicine. After 5 minutes (which is not enough time for the medicine to work) the symptom was gone and a new symptom imperative popped up. Again, I took a different medicine to address this new one. And the same thing happened! Within 5 mins the new symptom imperative went away and the previous one popped up. After that happened I ignored my symptoms and I enjoyed the game.

I'm definitely going to have to play with this medicine as I'm starting to see that it tricked my brain to thinking it was working. This has happened to me before when I took ibuprofen but not my with my prescription stomach meds. It was very eye opening.

When I came back home, my symptoms did come back full force. I'm not surprised and I'm just not paying attention to it. I did take a break journaling when I left on vacation and will start it back up now. Hopefully, now that I've been in my job for a week now my symptoms should calm down as I get into a routine.

But this is just going on my evidence list of why I know I have TMS!