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My Story
I began experiencing chronic pain while on active duty in the U.S. Navy. I had just finished a stressful eight-month deployment onboard an aircraft carrier, as a newlywed, followed by two shorter trips on destroyers. Upon returning, I took a physical fitness test and could not finish the run due to sciatic-type pain. A few weeks later, I started to experience severe scalp psoriasis. I took some muscle relaxers and kept on stressing, as we were in the process of transferring from Hawaii to Florida. At my new duty station in Florida, I was on shore duty and the job was not terribly stressful, but my perfectionist and “good-ist” personality enabled my pain to increase in severity, moving around and morphing in strange ways.
The Navy doctors could not make heads or tails of this, and I was labeled with fibromyalgia and sent to the pain management clinic. I ended up retiring, since I had enough time in and I was no longer able pass my PT test (graded sit-ups/push-ups/run that did not trouble me at all the first 18 years of my career). I continued work as a civilian (desk job) and eventually I had a lumber fusion (L5-S1) and cervical fusion C5-C7). Even after that I got to a point where I could not sit at my desk all day. I am now on disability, unable to work.
I retired in 2010, and stopped working altogether in 2016. After that, my urinary, pelvic, and gastrointestinal symptoms struck. I also began to have trouble with pain in my hands and feet. A big reason I quit working was a whole-body nerve pain I was having every night—it felt like fire ants in my veins, and I swear I didn’t sleep for years (until I would drop from exhaustion). In 2023, at a family reunion, a cousin of mine educated me about TMS, and she sent me the books The Way Out and The Divided Mind. I read these, started using Curable, and found a Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) therapist who has helped me tremendously! The first symptoms to subside have been the “fire ant” pain and insomnia. I am on the road to recovery! - Loading...
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My Story
- Gender:
- Female
- Birthday:
- March 10
- Location:
- Pensacola, Florida
- Occupation:
- Retired U.S. Navy
- Diagnoses:
- Fibromyalgia, small fiber neuropathy, Morton’s neuroma, DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis, chronic pelvic pain, interstitial cystitis, chronic back pain, chronic neck pain, failed back surgery, osteoarthritis (hands, back), degenerative disc disease, plantar fasciitis, duodenal ulcer, gastroparesis, IBS, psoriasis
I began experiencing chronic pain while on active duty in the U.S. Navy. I had just finished a stressful eight-month deployment onboard an aircraft carrier, as a newlywed, followed by two shorter trips on destroyers. Upon returning, I took a physical fitness test and could not finish the run due to sciatic-type pain. A few weeks later, I started to experience severe scalp psoriasis. I took some muscle relaxers and kept on stressing, as we were in the process of transferring from Hawaii to Florida. At my new duty station in Florida, I was on shore duty and the job was not terribly stressful, but my perfectionist and “good-ist” personality enabled my pain to increase in severity, moving around and morphing in strange ways.
The Navy doctors could not make heads or tails of this, and I was labeled with fibromyalgia and sent to the pain management clinic. I ended up retiring, since I had enough time in and I was no longer able pass my PT test (graded sit-ups/push-ups/run that did not trouble me at all the first 18 years of my career). I continued work as a civilian (desk job) and eventually I had a lumber fusion (L5-S1) and cervical fusion C5-C7). Even after that I got to a point where I could not sit at my desk all day. I am now on disability, unable to work.
I retired in 2010, and stopped working altogether in 2016. After that, my urinary, pelvic, and gastrointestinal symptoms struck. I also began to have trouble with pain in my hands and feet. A big reason I quit working was a whole-body nerve pain I was having every night—it felt like fire ants in my veins, and I swear I didn’t sleep for years (until I would drop from exhaustion). In 2023, at a family reunion, a cousin of mine educated me about TMS, and she sent me the books The Way Out and The Divided Mind. I read these, started using Curable, and found a Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) therapist who has helped me tremendously! The first symptoms to subside have been the “fire ant” pain and insomnia. I am on the road to recovery!Interact