Recent content by Twinny22

I found the 'sensory gating' term on AI because I asked why, when I was obsessing over the fish bone incident, my other symptom vanished - my other symptom being post traumatic clitoral nerve sensitisation which has been causing months of nonstop soreness (I have done a post on this!). I have...

Thanks so much. For me personally, Alan Gordon's theory makes more sense but I am open minded to all resources. My symptoms jump around from one body part to another. I've recently come across the term 'sensory gating' which seems to apply to me in that my brain can only do its OCD or TMS on one...

Thanks BloodMoon. If you can send me the links that would be great. I have seen references to them in various posts but not yet checked them out.

Thank you Ellen and BloodMoon. I know I have to break this nearly 40 year pattern of identifying an ailment (real or imagined) then running to consultants, requesting procedures and then developing an obsession as a result of said procedures. It's exhausting! And a result of OCD demanding...

Thank you so much for your thoughtful advice. I have no pain or other symptoms you mentioned and, of course, I really don't know if there were any other bones in the fillet other than the one I took out. My ocd wants me to believe there was a sizeable bone but the actual bone I removed from my...

My ocd/TMS brain is working overtime this morning. Last night, while eating salmon en croute, I pulled a 1cm fish bone out of my mouth. Then came the torrent of fears ie what if there was more than one bone in it and I inadvertently chewed it and it's lodged somewhere in my throat. I have no...

Many thanks, I will have a look at what you have mentioned and see what helps to break this endless loop of pain/fear.

Thanks for clarifying. Which TMS book did you find the most helpful for our apparently similar theme as there are lots out there?

Rabscuttle thanks. My twin sister correctly observed that I have a history of identifying an ailment (real or imagined), running to consultants, requesting endoscopies or other procedures then off the back of said procedure developing a fixation - most recently a painful nasal endoscopy which...

Alouqua, that's very reassuring thanks. When I saw doctors and nurses shortly after the incident, they looked really puzzled when I insisted I was in pain as they couldn't see any tissue trauma. I have seen with my tinnitus that reaction to a constant noise can change over time even though the...

Cafe_bustello - so glad you can relate. Because of where the injury was (and how it happened), it's more 'taboo' to discuss openly with people around me. You're spot on, it's hypersensitivity not numbness which argues against nerve damage. Can I ask what your pain was like? Constant or...

Also, I feel there must be an overlap between sensorimotor OCD and TMS as both involve hyper fixation which from my experience takes over your life to such an extent that life stuff is peripheral to what is going on in your head (obsession with pain or sensation or body part).

Thanks so much for those book recommendations. Yes it can't be a coincidence that tinnitus and the globus sensation I developed post endoscopy (it was actually a feeling that something was stuck in my soft palate) are both linked to the nervous system. Challenging as they are, they don't involve...