BagelSchnitzel
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Hi All,
I thought I'd post my success story here.
I was diagnosed with GERD earlier this year after having all the symptoms, the worst of which was tightness in my chest, worse in the evenings. Initially we thought I may have COVID-19 as it was near the beginning of the pandemic.
I was put on PPI's and restricted what I ate. Basically everything I enjoyed eating had to go. I went back to basics. As a result, I was soo pre-occupied with my symptoms I ended up losing a fair bit of weight, family and friends were concerned about me.
I decided to see if there was another way to look at this, that perhaps it was my body trying to tell me something. On and off for years I had experienced TMS related issues, here's just a few of the more troubling ones that took me a while to overcome:
- Back pain - Multiple chiropractors and treatments tried, no joy. Worked on it as a TMS symptom and it went away very quickly.
- Mole pain - I convinced myself it was cancerous, and I started getting pain, got it checked, it wasn't, pain instantly went.
- Chronic Eye Strain - Probably the most tricky one to get rid of. I was convinced it wasn't TMS related, saw multiple specialists, never got answers, in the end I worked on it as another TMS symptom and worked through the TMS recovery program I got some relief, teamed with the Bates method.
- IBS/Bloating
- Chest Pain (GERD)
I'm recovered from this now. Off the tablets. I treated it as a TMS symptom and tried to take away any feelings of fear around the different types of food I'm eating. Working hard to send myself messages of safety and simply observing the sensations that arose in my body without fear but with curiosity. I'm now back eating whatever I want with no issues.
A good place to get started is here:
https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/painrecovery/
Alan Gordon also has a new podcast called, 'Tell me about your pain' and a facebook community who are all very helpful, link to the podcast here:
https://www.curablehealth.com/podcast/your-pain
I thought I'd post my success story here.
I was diagnosed with GERD earlier this year after having all the symptoms, the worst of which was tightness in my chest, worse in the evenings. Initially we thought I may have COVID-19 as it was near the beginning of the pandemic.
I was put on PPI's and restricted what I ate. Basically everything I enjoyed eating had to go. I went back to basics. As a result, I was soo pre-occupied with my symptoms I ended up losing a fair bit of weight, family and friends were concerned about me.
I decided to see if there was another way to look at this, that perhaps it was my body trying to tell me something. On and off for years I had experienced TMS related issues, here's just a few of the more troubling ones that took me a while to overcome:
- Back pain - Multiple chiropractors and treatments tried, no joy. Worked on it as a TMS symptom and it went away very quickly.
- Mole pain - I convinced myself it was cancerous, and I started getting pain, got it checked, it wasn't, pain instantly went.
- Chronic Eye Strain - Probably the most tricky one to get rid of. I was convinced it wasn't TMS related, saw multiple specialists, never got answers, in the end I worked on it as another TMS symptom and worked through the TMS recovery program I got some relief, teamed with the Bates method.
- IBS/Bloating
- Chest Pain (GERD)
I'm recovered from this now. Off the tablets. I treated it as a TMS symptom and tried to take away any feelings of fear around the different types of food I'm eating. Working hard to send myself messages of safety and simply observing the sensations that arose in my body without fear but with curiosity. I'm now back eating whatever I want with no issues.
A good place to get started is here:
https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/painrecovery/
Alan Gordon also has a new podcast called, 'Tell me about your pain' and a facebook community who are all very helpful, link to the podcast here:
https://www.curablehealth.com/podcast/your-pain
