Mirror symptoms - experiences please!

I have been experiencing what I think are mirror symptoms where I will have pain in a body part on one side of the body, and when that resolves, it goes to the same place one the other side. In my work, hearing other people's experiences of TMS symptoms and how the manifest and change has been very reassuring and helpful to me. Can anyone share a similar experience? Thank you!

 

Yep!
My back plays ping pong -sometimes by the minute, hour, day or week.
I like to think that those of us with highly creative minds get highly creative symptoms.

 

Love this way of thinking about this! Definitely feels like my mind can get super creative with creating the most "innovative" symptoms!

 

It usually has happened when I ignored the first one.
The first time I noiticed the 'switch' was when I put off back surgery to do a movie. I had pain on the Left side for over a year...
The designer on the film added a TON of additions mere hours before the filming began. I Immediately had a Blast of sciatica down the right side!
It was right at quitting time...3:30 PM. The reason I mention it, is that the pain began to switch everyday right at 3:30. Conditioning is very real.

Most recently, I developed a large lump on my left hand...I ignored it and went about my business. Than one started on my Right hand!
Then the right one has been painful off and on. It's become my new 'barometer' of how much emotional stuff I am ignoring. I'll be fine all day doing hard labor, but the second I try to relax....ouch!

Louise Hay not only corresponded certain symptoms to certain common emotional blockages, but also the side it happens on having to do with sex.
If I am angry at a Female, left side, male, right.

My Back pain started after a problem with two women....and it was all on the left. That designer who added all of the stuff late to my job. He was a Man (right side). These are all just clues. Each one of us is different, but I thought it was an very perceptive insight. Ultimately the symptom is there to block us...we have to look for why? Why do I need this symptom? What is it protecting me from?

 

Sometimes when I wake up, I forget which foot or knee or whatever I was worried about the night before and which one I should be set to worry about today!

 

It is very common. My dystonia started on the left side. As soon as it decreased on the left, it reappeared on the right. It took another year for the right side to normalize, with occasional outbreaks on the left side.

 

This is always a fun one. About a month ago I hurt my knee playing volleyball, suspected ligament injury, doctor thinking ACL, textbook pain, knee giving out etc while waiting for MRI my other knee starts with the same symptoms, no acl tear, small stress fracture, but unsurprisingly the TMS brain can sense something is slightly off with the body part and ‘up’ the sensations. Once I got the MRI result the symptoms pretty quickly dissipated.

about 3-4 weeks ago I was doing push ups and had some pain in my right elbow, textbook golfers elbow type pain although I don’t play golf, lol, symptoms lasted for 3ish days then jumped to my left elbow, same symptoms but more severe, fairly debilitating pain for 2ish weeks, now they’ve just mildly ping ponged back and forth for around 10 days.

TMS is so so fascinating. Frustrating, but fascinating. On any given day I’ll experience 5 or 6 symptoms that alternate.

 

I'm mostly a left side pain girl because how else are you going to worry it's a heart attack if not on the left?
Thanks alot, brain!

 

If it’s any comfort, my pain is more of a migratory creature than the great sardine run in South Africa: it starts in the upper right trapezius, then moves to my lower back, then to my stomach, and – like today – it shows up behind my left knee.
A real delight, honestly.

 

LOL on the migratory creature.

 

Do you mean the MRI showed nothing? I've had so many X-rays and 4 MRIs over the past year and 3 of the times there was nothing significant and the 4th time it showed all sorts of terrible things in places I wasn't even having the pain. And of course then PAIN in those areas. I never want to get another MRI again.

 

Interestingly sometimes I think my right TFL (quad) acts up like the left one does which is the leg that has dystonia. I've also seen that both the IT band and plantar fasciitis are like prime TMS spots and the IT band is completely interconnected with the TFL. Recently I've had some fun twitching there. Of course my doctors say worsening dystonia and I have my doubts. My eye was also twitching this AM and that's not dystonia. Ugh what a ride I'm on.

 

In my case, twitching marked the beginning of recovery. It was a release of the lock on my muscles. You are right to doubt your doctors. They operate under assumption that dystonia is incurable and progressive. When patients are convinced of the same, they will never recover.

 

Thank you for this. I am going to keep repeating it to myself!

 

The more you pay attention to all those areas of your body the more they will oblige by giving you the sensation of pain.

 

I don't usually have knee pain, but when I do, it's on both kness

 

Well, personally, I would say get off the medical ride!

 

Those are 4 excellent rules for living.