My TMS Success Story (crippling foot pain - plantar fasciitis, wrist pain, eye pain)

[Anshushakti]

Great story.. impressed with your patience..Dr Sarno says a rough idea about 6 weeks and people start watching calendar... You have mentioned about January to Jun...I can't write essays about my emotions. I start writing it and end up with a summary kind of stuffs... I understand its very necessary to write as much as you can..You need to express each and every bit. But somehow i can;t write up to that level of depth..Can you please suggest

 

[AnitaV]

This is such a great thread. I took the time to read all of it today because I am struggling with foot pain right now too. I started with neck/back pain (caused by being a "hairstylist") , which showed up after I conquered builimia... I now struggle with severe foot pain. I've had it for 7 years now and I'm only 32! It's so frustrating. I've known about TMS for about 4 years now and I don't know if it's my personality stopping me up but I can't seem to get enough confidence to fully accept TMS. Recently my symtoms were always PF or tarsal tunnel...pain and nerve pain all over feet. Longer I'm on them longer they hurt....but now my left ball of foot has been hurting horribly. And seems to have some swelling. I got an xray and it showed nothing...but seems weird that it's in one foot and not the other? That has really stopped me up b/c I keep worrying that it's physical. It's been hurting for 8 months now...and don't know if I should go get an mri or something or just figure it's TMS and move on? Please I could use some advice. I also think I need to Skype with a psychologist because I think I tend to repress emotions and not even know because of my prior eating disorder that started in my teens! Thank you so much for this thread and any advice is welcome!

I'm so sorry for the delay in my reply Anna, I didn't get a notification about your post for some reason!

Based on my own experience, I'm sure that the cause of your pain is TMS and not anything physical. You may even have visible physical manifestations (I had swelling show up on MRI), but that doesn't make a difference, it is still TMS.

Read and re-read Dr. Sarno's books and success stories so that you understand how TMS works, and understand how your symptoms fit in to TMS. Repetition is important for rewiring your brain, so carefully reading the books over and over again and thinking about them is important.

At the same time, you need to find out what emotions you are repressing, and understand why and when you repress emotions in the first place. If you can see a psychologist for psychoanalysis, that would be great, that is what I did and it made incredible changes in my life. Skyping with a psychologist who is familiar with TMS is a great idea. But with the psychologist, the most important thing is to discover your repressed emotions, and understand why you repress emotions.

Don't get discouraged if it takes a long time, there is no timeline for recovery from TMS. And expect your pain to get worse and jump all over the place before it goes away, that is totally normal, that is your brain trying its hardest to distract you from your emotions!

I hope this is helpful! How are you feeling now?

Best,
Anita

 

[AnitaV]

Great story.. impressed with your patience..Dr Sarno says a rough idea about 6 weeks and people start watching calendar... You have mentioned about January to Jun...I can't write essays about my emotions. I start writing it and end up with a summary kind of stuffs... I understand its very necessary to write as much as you can..You need to express each and every bit. But somehow i can;t write up to that level of depth..Can you please suggest

I don't think there is any timeline, everyone is different, and we all carry different emotional baggage that we need to process. Unfortunately I can't give much advice about writing, I didn't write myself, I saw a psychologist and worked through my emotions with him. I'm sure there are people here who wrote a lot as part of their recovery, and they could give you good advice. Can you see a psychologist? It did wonders for to, to discover my repressed emotions, and to discover why I repress emotions.

 

[AnnaSchweitzer]

I'm actually not doing great my left foot is still hurting like crazy and now I've been having some eye pain in my left eye.... And I have some sort of condition of degeneration in it... So I don't know if that's tms or not. I feel like this is the worst spot to be.... In pain and hopeless. I've been trying to get rid of tms for a long time now and I'm just so tired of fighting and trying... It's an uphill battle. I just feel like I just can't convince myself to completely believe it. So I'm considering going back to a doctor. I've had chronic yeast and bv infections now for almost 2 years. Seriously get so old being in pain and fighting to get out of bed everyday

 

[AnitaV]

Hi Anna, I've written up a recovery plan based on my experiences and posted it here: http://tmswiki.org/forum/threads/my-tms-recovery-plan.12499/ (My TMS Recovery Plan). Please take a look at that and let me know if you have any questions! It contains much of the advice that I can give on this.

 

[AnnaSchweitzer]

Ok so I read your recovery and you are so inspiring! I think this will be a good approach for me. Knowledge and acceptance. My pain has been moving around a lot... My foot (it hasn't moved from there but moves around my foot) my eye, now my neck and sinus areas and headaches have been awful. It's so hard some days to stay positive while fighting the pain. Just ready for that part to be over. But I am encouraged by your words and know that I have a lot of anxiety and sometimes I feel like I'm constantly fighting instead of accepting!

 

[tgirl]

Thanks for everything you've written. I know many of us will benefit from your success story, even if it just gives us a glimmer of hope.

My symptoms are always on my legs, but they move around. I experience a prickly feeling on the skin of my legs, sort of a hypersensitive feeling. Bloody awful. Recently I have developed some pelvic pain. I had pelvic pain many years ago and it just went away. All these strange pains and annoyances can really wear on me. The doctors have tested everything extensively and all tests are negative- can't find a thing wrong. So thinking psychological must be the avenue for me to take.

Thanks again!