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Neuropathic pain can be especially frightening.

Alouqua47

Alouqua47

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Hi, I really want to believe that those of us who have this kind of pain can achieve remission, however, I don't see many success stories with this type of symptom. Now, what if the pain is electric or moves around during the day like mine in my arms, or in other parts of the body? I hope it's possible because every day is a struggle against fear.
 
Hi @Alouqua47 , I too was looking for success stories along these lines. There are many on this forum that have described nerve pain/neuropathy of one kind or another, I would suggest just going through the success stories subforum. There are a number of great success story videos on Dan Buglio's Youtube channel, many of which involve neuropathy of one kind or another.

I have had plenty of sensations similar to what you're describing. Tingling and static electricity feeling in my lower and upper back, hands, fingertips, face and the tip of my nose, all kinds of stuff that comes and goes (or came and went—much of my neuropathy is gone now most days!). I won't list everything because there's no point in focusing on symptoms. But the short answer is yes, you can definitely achieve remission. Mine has already improved a good amount in the past month since committing to TMS healing and following the SEP, journaling, exercising, etc.
 
I had electric shocks. I still have some pain (much, much less!) and tightness but the shocks disappeared after I was able to understand that it was all caused my muscle and mind tension and stopped fearing these symptoms.
 
@Alouqua47 I had all kinds of nerve pains (that moved around) ranging from irritating tingling (nose, upper lip, scalp, little finger) to sciatica-like sensations from my buttock down one leg to the knee and sometimes down to the ankle, and radiating pain and electric shocks across my 'saddle' area with pins and needles and numbness (the latter if I sat for more than a few minutes) plus pudendal neuralgia-like pain in my groin/private parts and tingling and pain from my left shoulder down to my left wrist and then into my hand and fingers (somewhat reminiscent of carpal tunnel syndrome)... All gone now with doing mind/body work. Many of us on these forums aren't fully recovered - yet (e.g. I have some residual pain in my sacro-iliac areas when I sit on hard surfaces for a while, but in due course I know that that will go with continuing to do mind/body practises) so, for the time being, we haven't added our recovery stories on the success stories sub forum. The thing to remember is that the brain really can create all sorts of symptoms. I suffered a whole myriad of them.
 
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"Thank you for your words; they give me hope and comfort. I am new to this—English is not my native language and I discovered this diagnosis on my own. I literally need help. Could you share your daily routines for mind-body work? I found Dr. Sarno through Alan Gordon’s story and PRT (Pain Reprocessing Therapy), but I haven't read his books yet. I know I must keep living despite the pain, lose the fear of the symptoms, and use somatic tracking when fear arises, but what exactly have you guys done?"
 
@Luna de sangre ¡De verdad que tenías muchos síntomas! ¿Podrías responderme a estas preguntas? ¿Cuánto tiempo sufrirías de esto antes de empezar el trabajo mente-cuerpo? ¿Cuánto tiempo llevas trabajando para llegar a este punto? ¿Los dolores que se repetían durante el día seguían poniéndote nervioso incluso después de empezar a trabajar para mejorar? Llevo solo un mes intentando perder el miedo conscientemente y siento que he empeorado.
 
I’ve been committed to the mind body work for about a month now, and I only just started working with a practitioner a week ago.

I’ve had symptoms for 6 months but neither of these timelines really matter as I understand it, you can recover no matter how long it’s been and the amount of time it takes will be the amount of time it takes. Don’t worry about it!
 
@cafe_bustelo "Me alegra saber que puedes encontrar apoyo; no creo que encuentre ayuda aquí en mi país. Soy de Perú, y este enfoque de reentrenamiento mente-cuerpo o del sistema nervioso no existe aquí. De hecho, cuando el neurólogo me dijo que el dolor en mis brazos era mental, me derivó a un psiquiatra. El psiquiatra asignado por el estado que vi no creía en mi condición. Dijo que me estaba inventando la Sensibilidad Central, quizás porque no tenía un diagnóstico oficial más allá de la fibromialgia de un reumatólogo, quien, de todos modos, sabe poco o nada sobre esa condición. Todo mi sistema nervioso está afectado. No creo que encuentre un terapeuta con este enfoque aquí; espero que puedas decirme qué dice el tuyo. Estoy sola. De hecho, la gente me mira con asombro cuando les digo que mis síntomas se mueven, especialmente en mis brazos, ya que ese es mi síntoma más permanente. El día que el psiquiatra cuestionó por qué tenía esa condición, Salí llorando porque sentí que literalmente nadie podía ayudarme; nadie sabía siquiera cuál era mi condición”.
 
@Alouqua47
Yes, I had what I called electrical buzzing in my chest and in my arms and legs. It moved around. I had it for more than two years but it has more recently gone. This book really helped take away my fear and told me what to do to make it go away. Hope and Help for Your Nerves, by Claire Weekes.
 
Hi @Alouqua47 , my favorite success stories are the ones on Jim Prussack’s channel and every now and then there’s a story where the patient had nerve pain among others. I believe there’s a good reason for it, nerve pain is infuriating. It’s a very strange pain that makes us emotionally uncomfortable and it’s very efficient at grabbing our attention. It’s also a hard symptom to just power through, which is bad and good news at the same time, since we’d better accept the pain instead of ignoring it. But easier said than done… out of all my symptoms, the nerve one is not the most painful, but by far the most challenging.

Anyway, as folks said above, don’t worry about it not being curable. It is. And it is a very common symptom actually.
 
¿Realmente presentabas todos estos síntomas desde el principio, o comenzó a aparecer a medida que avanzabas en el proceso de calmar tu mente? ¿Has experimentado recaídas de estos mismos síntomas, o simplemente no han vuelto a aparecer?



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BloodMoon said:
@Alouqua47 Tenía todo tipo de dolores nerviosos (que se movían) que iban desde un hormigueo irritante (nariz, labio superior, cuero cabeza, dedo meñique) hasta sensaciones parecidas a la ciática desde el glúteo por una pierna hasta la rodilla ya veces hasta el tobillo, y dolor irradiado y descargas eléctricas por la zona de la "silla de montar" con hormigueo y entumecimiento (esto último si me sentaba durante más de unos minutos), además de dolor parecido a la neuralgia del pudendo en la ingle/partes íntimas y hormigueo y dolor desde el hombro izquierdo hasta la muñeca izquierda y luego en la mano y los dedos (algo parecido al síndrome del túnel carpiano)... Todo ha desaparecido ahora con el trabajo mente/cuerpo. Muchos de nosotros en estos foros aún no nos hemos recuperado del todo (por ejemplo, tengo algo de dolor residual en la zona sacroilíaca cuando me siento en superficies duras durante un rato, pero sé que con el tiempo desaparecerá al continuar con las prácticas mente-cuerpo), así que, por ahora, no hemos añadido nuestras historias de recuperación al subforo de historias de éxito. Lo importante es recordar que el cerebro puede generar todo tipo de síntomas. Yo sufri muchísimos.
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Alouqua47 said:
Are you saying you really had all these symptoms from the beginning, or did they start to appear as you progressed in calming your mind? Have you experienced relapses of these same symptoms, or have they simply not returned?
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@Alouqua47 I'm not sure if these questions are directed at me or @cafe_bustelo (as you mentioned their name, but the quoted text is from my post), so I’ll assume they’re meant for me.

So, to answer your questions...

Some of my symptoms were there from the beginning, while others appeared as I did 'the work'.

Along the way, I did experience relapses of some symptoms—with both those that were there from the beginning and those that appeared as I did 'the work', and in some cases these relapses happened a number of times.

However, other symptoms from both groups (those that were there from the beginning and those that appeared as I did 'the work') went away completely and did not come back at all.

Overall, some symptoms from both the beginning and those that appeared while doing 'the work' relapsed (sometimes more than once), while others from both stages (those that were there from the beginning and those that appeared when doing 'the work') resolved completely and did not return.
 
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