Burning Feet & Skin

Could this be a TMS symptom ?

 

It's a common TMS symptom.

 

You can search with the magnifying glass at the top of the forum. Here’s what came up for burning feet. Multiple pages. I’ve had burning feet on and off. But the calmer I am it subsides. Personally, I think it’s more related to anxiety than repression.

https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/search/9067102/?q=Burning+feet&o=date (Search Results for Query: Burning feet | TMS Forum (The Mindbody Syndrome))

 

Yeah, I get really hot feet often at night when getting ready for bed especially if I am feeling anxious. Classical anxiety-based symptom that chills out, pardon the pun, if I can calm myself down.

 

I had really bad skin pain, even wearing a shirt hurt. My whole body was inflamed.

 

How did it resolve itself? I used to have severe acne as a until my late 20s and I do wonder if the mind contributed to that.

 

Your wondering @mikeinlondon made me think about my experience with acne. I had classical teen acne which totally disappeared when I got away from my family house and traveled. I thought it must be the sun and good living... but now I see it as I escaped from my normally very tense environment. Interesting how the mind can show up eh.

 

It went away when my other pains went away. It's a long story and I did a bunch of stuff - https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threa...ermobile-ctd-fibro-dx-20-years-of-pain.29325/

 

I only started getting these symptoms a few days after stopping mirtazipine. I couldn't sleep at all last night. My skin was burning everywhere and I feel like a freezer inside. I'm not sure how this could be TMS. I'm having a really hard time accepting that. Not everything us TMS's have is TMS. If anyone has any experiences of coming off antidepressants can we please chat?

 

Honestly, @mikeinlondon
Your mind is simply running in circles. One week it’s x symptom the next it is yz symptom, you have disbelief and need assurance it’s TMS.
Not everything is TMS but the only way to rule that out is to be checked by your Dr. so they can determine “nothing is wrong” which we can’t do for you.. or… you can open your mind to more “what if’s”.
Right now all your what if’s are dire. But what if this is just TMS? What then? (And I’m sure your brain has the bits right now saying “but what if it’s not”).
This is where you decide. To take the leap of faith and trust, knowing that some days you’ll have doubts but be willing to just sit with the daily doubt and work for the long term wellness.
You listen to Helmut and Sam.. the talk about the long term. The choices, commitment to self, the willingness not to be perfect in this journey, to stick with it, to doubt and fear and just sit with those emotions and thoughts. To allow and not struggle or fight the process.
There were days I would be so anxious I sweat (and smelled horribly), had panic attacks, hid in the dark…but I knew that the next day could be better because there were simply too many success stories for this method to be wrong.
I stopped stopped searching symptom matching. Nobody ever had the combination of crazy symptoms I had (I heard Sam mention two of my wildest symptoms that she also experienced recently). It’s all the nervous system trying to get back into regulation and flow - it’s all TMS.
You are experiencing a pretty strong set of symptoms so when more come, they are just going to be even scarier for a bit. Anxiety will do that to you, it’s a safety mechanism.
Here is a big hug to say you will be OK. I feel awful for the torture your brain is putting you through, but when you began to see the sleep symptoms as TMS your brain zapped you with another set of symptoms that are hard to ignore. That is exactly how TMS can manifest in some people.
Eventually the mind begins to accept the idea of TMS over time, your job is to teach it. Right now it’s like a two year old screaming “no! No! I don’t wanna!!!!” And we all know the best way to calm a 2 year old is to just sit with it and let the tantrum run its course. Let it feel all the rage, sadness, confusion, fear etc and just be with it, and let it all out.
You don’t need to believe to do the work. You just need to stop searching for other answers.

 

Mike,
Look to your mind. Why is your mind wanting to find an excuse? Why doesn’t your mind want to believe all of us? or all of the countless stories on this website? There’s plenty here for reasonable proof — at least enough to put all your efforts into a TMS recovery. Each time you doubt, you’re stalling your progress. You are sliding backwards. You’re wasting time. Get on the train and start digging, start grieving, start working, start changing, start recovering. I tell you with all my heart there’s no other solution. You’ll never find the perfect match to your fears. You’ll just discredit any example anyone gives you. It’s your TMS brain’s stall tactic. Getting enough faith to do the work is really hard. It’s almost a miracle to be honest. It does at some point take a leap of faith. For me, no book, mentor or podcast did it. Participation in the forum did it for me. Active participation. Really listening even when people said things I doubted or that annoyed me— I listened, especially then! Over time, I was able to borrow everyone else’s courage, and lean on their progress. And eventually I got my own. It’s hard to think straight when you’re in pain. I really know that. And it’s hard to keep the faith— I also know that! But I can promise you this, sitting on the fence will get you nowhere and nothing, except more pain.