Non-painful sensations?

[HealingMe]

I know many people struggle with pain of all kinds, I do as well. But I was wondering if odd sensations of a body part counts as TMS?

I’ve been struggling with my pelvic/lower abdominal area. Sometimes it is a deep burning ache. But other times it is an itching/stretching pain right under my skin. It is maddening and has scared me more than a regular ache.

I also think I conditioned this part of my body to invoke this pain from stretching which really sucks. I had it happen a few times and discontinued stretching that part of my body.

 

[JanAtheCPA]

But I was wondering if odd sensations of a body part counts as TMS?

Heck yeah!

Anything that your special and unique brain can come up with that it thinks will get YOUR particular attention is something that it will try.

I've spent a lifetime ignoring weird little sensations - but even though I believe that I was born with anxiety (due to circumstances around my mother's pregnancy), health anxiety was pretty low on my list of things to worry about. My mother's anxiety did not last once she had a second (then third and fourth) kid, and I do think that I can probably thank my healthy and practical parents for believing in self-healing at a pretty young age. As well as "wait and see" for all kinds of sensations which never made it to the level of "symptoms".

Lots of people here will assure you that they've experienced every sensation imagineable and that they have learned to ignore them.

 

[ARCUser831]

Many of my sensations can best be described as uncomfortable. Rarely does anything cross over into actual pain (short-lived sharp pains here and there, soreness and aches occasionally), but the symptoms that have bothered me most are the non-painful ones. And I've had success with those doing this work.

 

[HealingMe]

Heck yeah!

Anything that your special and unique brain can come up with that it thinks will get YOUR particular attention is something that it will try.

I've spent a lifetime ignoring weird little sensations - but even though I believe that I was born with anxiety (due to circumstances around my mother's pregnancy), health anxiety was pretty low on my list of things to worry about. My mother's anxiety did not last once she had a second (then third and fourth) kid, and I do think that I can probably thank my healthy and practical parents for believing in self-healing at a pretty young age. As well as "wait and see" for all kinds of sensations which never made it to the level of "symptoms".

Lots of people here will assure you that they've experienced every sensation imagineable and that they have learned to ignore them.

I think I’m coming to realize why TMS picked this part of my body. Fitness and moving my body has been very important to me my whole life (why my hip and thigh/knee hurts) They also say the pelvis stores trauma and I’m starting to understand this and how it relates to my life. Jan, you’re right. At times I envy those who have back pain. I feel bad for thinking this, so I understand it’s just as painful for them as it is for me.

Jan, I come from a European family so I can relate to the “wait and see” mindset. My mother always says “it will pass, you need to get out of bed and get moving”. I don’t think she is wrong because part of curing yourself of TMS is to go out and live.

 

[HealingMe]

Many of my sensations can best be described as uncomfortable. Rarely does anything cross over into actual pain (short-lived sharp pains here and there, soreness and aches occasionally), but the symptoms that have bothered me most are the non-painful ones. And I've had success with those doing this work.

That is encouraging!

 

[Lilybluerose]

For me majority isnt pain. More so aches, tingling, buzzing etc. I think because those symptoms give me more anxiety and distraction than pain would.

 

[ARCUser831]

For me majority isnt pain. More so aches, tingling, buzzing etc. I think because those symptoms give me more anxiety and distraction than pain would.

I agree! I always felt like if it was pain, I would be able to handle that better (of course, the grass is always greener), but I think what I mean is my mind would be able to cope with it easier. I am prone to getting awful kinks in my neck and shoulder -- have it right now actually and it sucks! But it never stresses me out because the pain does not feel mysterious or unnerving. Even if it is actually is TMS, I've always thought "well, I just moved wrong, I just slept on it wrong, it'll be gone in a few days max." And therefore it always is. Even though ironically it's much more debilitating physically than the symptoms that brought me to this work.

The tingling, burning, indescribable discomfort, twitching, all of that -- a lot harder for me to rationally cope with.

 

[Lilybluerose]

I agree! I always felt like if it was pain, I would be able to handle that better (of course, the grass is always greener), but I think what I mean is my mind would be able to cope with it easier. I am prone to getting awful kinks in my neck and shoulder -- have it right now actually and it sucks! But it never stresses me out because the pain does not feel mysterious or unnerving. Even if it is actually is TMS, I've always thought "well, I just moved wrong, I just slept on it wrong, it'll be gone in a few days max." And therefore it always is. Even though ironically it's much more debilitating physically than the symptoms that brought me to this work.

The tingling, burning, indescribable discomfort, twitching, all of that -- a lot harder for me to rationally cope with.

Yes so much the same! Any little twitch buzz or tingle can send me spiraling so so badly ! The mysterious and unnerving really makes sense .