JCthart
New Member
Hi all,
I've been on my TMS journey for a couple of months, since I've started pain has been acting weirdly - getting worse, getting a bit better, then getting back to "normal", changing locations faster, turning up in old places I've had injuries - to summarise: it's obvious my mind is reacting and trying to distract me.
A weird thing though. For years I've had these tender spots in my abdomen, under the skin, about the height of my navel, on both sides. It's extremely painful when you put pressure on it, and almost excruciatingly painful when you massage it. I've always assumed it's some kind of muscle pain because it gets slightly worse when I work out. Anyway, I've always kind of ignored it. But lately it's been getting worse, particularly at the left side.
So I thought I'd google it, and I was surprised to read that it's an actual thing: ACNES (Anterior Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Syndrome). I had wondered before if this pain could be TMS, but I was like nah - also because some therapist had once mentioned it could be massaged away and it had to do with the idea of having to do everything by yourself and in consequence clenching the stomach in order to face the world... (as I type this I realise this in fact screams MINDBODY.. Oops).
But reading on the hospital website it says stuff like: underlying cause unknown, occurs mostly spontaneously or because of earlier injury in that area, caused by a pinched nerve, sometimes suggested to be "in the head", sometimes injection works, sometimes this causes the pain to move after which a second injection is needed, operation sometimes helps, if nothing helps patients should learn to live with their pain..
It don't recall that Sarno mentions this syndrome in his books, or does he? Is there anyone who has any experience with this? It has to be TMS trying to trick me further, right?!
I've been on my TMS journey for a couple of months, since I've started pain has been acting weirdly - getting worse, getting a bit better, then getting back to "normal", changing locations faster, turning up in old places I've had injuries - to summarise: it's obvious my mind is reacting and trying to distract me.
A weird thing though. For years I've had these tender spots in my abdomen, under the skin, about the height of my navel, on both sides. It's extremely painful when you put pressure on it, and almost excruciatingly painful when you massage it. I've always assumed it's some kind of muscle pain because it gets slightly worse when I work out. Anyway, I've always kind of ignored it. But lately it's been getting worse, particularly at the left side.
So I thought I'd google it, and I was surprised to read that it's an actual thing: ACNES (Anterior Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Syndrome). I had wondered before if this pain could be TMS, but I was like nah - also because some therapist had once mentioned it could be massaged away and it had to do with the idea of having to do everything by yourself and in consequence clenching the stomach in order to face the world... (as I type this I realise this in fact screams MINDBODY.. Oops).
But reading on the hospital website it says stuff like: underlying cause unknown, occurs mostly spontaneously or because of earlier injury in that area, caused by a pinched nerve, sometimes suggested to be "in the head", sometimes injection works, sometimes this causes the pain to move after which a second injection is needed, operation sometimes helps, if nothing helps patients should learn to live with their pain..
It don't recall that Sarno mentions this syndrome in his books, or does he? Is there anyone who has any experience with this? It has to be TMS trying to trick me further, right?!
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