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Recovery from Digestive issues (LPR, Dyspepsia)

weakened sphincter. actually, it hasn't been well studied. some docs don't even think it is real. people recover from this....and i have known some...so it isn't a permanent condition. i believe it can be handled by some diet changes ( even with some strictly tms issues if one has a poor diet for instance, changes there will certainly help) and reducing stress. i am treating it as tms. it isn't completely gone but is considerably better.
 
Karim said:
But LPR is structural a sphincter problem
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I remember when I had so much back pain I couldn't even work and a doctor told me my pain was a structural problem. My l4 and l5 were touching. I even had an MRI picture to prove it. Thankfully after years of dealing with back pain a friend at work told me about Dr Sarno's work and I have not looked back since.
 
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Hi Karim & everyone else. Thank you all for sharing. I am in a TMS LPR nightmare at the minute. Its nearly been a year since I started to develop a dry cough. Now I have irritation in my airways with every out breath, like a menthol type feeling, constant throat clearing and burping, even after water. I went to see an ENT who put me on meds and a diet. Nothing has worked and I have a camera going to down my throat to check it out next week as they said my throat was very inflamed and red at the first examination.

I had back pain for years and finally got on top of it with TMS. Now I have this and of of course am freaking out about cancer. I believe 90% it's TMS but that 10% is enough to cause horrible symptoms and mental anguish. It's so draining. The funny thing is I have no symptoms at night which I think says a lot. If it was structural and something serious I'm guessing I would be getting symptoms during the night.

Karim how are you doing and maybe we should help each other. Sounds like we have had similar journeys.

Cheers

Maz
 
Kozas said:
Dunno about thyroids meds, but LDN never helped me. To be honest I think it's placebo at best, without any physical impact
One week ago I went to yet another gastro doctor. I have stomach(and teeth) pain since 2011. It's one of the best gastro doctors in my area, actually chiropractor adviced me to go there. And you know what she said to me? That sure, maybe antibiotics I took(and I get pain right when I finished them) maybe initially were resposnsible for my pain, but now it's because of my nerve system. SHe asked about my parents, my childhood. It was the first medical doctor that asked such questions! She concluded that probably it's all because of my nerve system. So even some doctors are more inclined towards Sarno, Schubiner, Moskovitz etc approach
What I concluded after that visit is that probably pain didn't developed overnight(that's what I thought before). Sure, maybe antibiotics did something to me that was trigger, or more like something my brain could use to induce long lasting pain. But those neural pathways propably were developing like that since my childhood....
That always takes so much pressure off me. I don't have to find solution that will work RIGHT NOW. Just small steps in right directions are all I need... even if it takes years, so be it... but the most important thing is to doubt no more, to break of the loop.
Even if this not gonna work(and I believe it will!) just think about it - in for example 2025 do you wanna still be in loop or think something like 'I've tried it, it didn't work, but at least I know that I did what I could'
And if you stressing that you are ignoring something serious then do all the tests you need. No harm there, we all should get tested from time to time. Many diseases like cancer can be very treatable when discovered fast enough. But if this is really chronic - like in my example - then it's very doubtful it's something serious(well, TMS is serious too ;))
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Hi, how come your teeth hurt?
 
Booble said:
My teeth hurt before finding TMS. I went to the dentist who said there was nothing wrong. He said he didn't know why they hurt. He suggested maybe sinuses.
It was from the unconscious muscular tension in that area.
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That sounds like my teeth. I do have teeth that need crowns but that's not for a long time (according to my dentist). I have constant aches, pains and sensitivity but they're not coming from the cracked teeth. I'm going crazy over it. I thought it could be my sinuses but who knows?
 
SleepyPigeon0608 said:
That sounds like my teeth. I do have teeth that need crowns but that's not for a long time (according to my dentist). I have constant aches, pains and sensitivity but they're not coming from the cracked teeth. I'm going crazy over it. I thought it could be my sinuses but who knows?
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I'll betcha it's from tension. Beware...once I got the all clear from the dentist after about a week the pain went away .....and moved to my throat!
It was even worse there.
Then I found Sarno. This forum and the old 20/20 segment.
And then my pain released and went away.
 
Booble said:
I'll betcha it's from tension. Beware...once I got the all clear from the dentist after about a week the pain went away .....and moved to my throat!
It was even worse there.
Then I found Sarno. This forum and the old 20/20 segment.
And then my pain released and went away.
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Too late. My original symptom was back pain after a heavy session at the gym (herniated disc according to my CT) and then I had wisdom teeth surgery. It all went downhill from there. The area near my wisdom teeth vegan burning and then it moved around my mouth to my molars. Fast forward to now (over a year later), I now have multiple symptoms. I'm stuck on the cause of it and why I keep getting new symptoms. I think my fear is creating and maintaining everything.
 
Went from serious loose bowels and digestive orders esp when getting ready for a root canal had a bad experience.

After that root canal was done i went away for a little trip to enjoy with my family. up until that point i was loose bowel and stomach issue. Let me just tell u when I was at that vacation spot for 3 days..i ate like a pig, junk food pizza and soda and alcohol. I didnt give a shyt anymore as long as i was with my family. i went down water slides and everything else...2 things i did different....ate yogurt (while on antibiotics for the root canal they did) and also relaxed for 45 minutes doing the SALT SPA treatment...basically you lay down in a chair and breahte in the salt in a quiet dark room. What happens next.... I pooped like a LONG LOG...a SNAKE..lol a perfectly good hard good lookin poop. lol excuse my sarcasm but the point is, no loose stool, no runny poop or diareah... it was seriously long and hard and flowed through... went on for this for few days. once a day.

Now i dont know if it was the yogurt, or the sea salt meditation i did that changed my body....id like to say that helped but what i think really did it for me was that i wasnt going to go to the dentist anymore.the worse part was done and the fear went away..once that happened i think my body calmed down by not giving a fuk anymore!
 
elchessboy said:
Went from serious loose bowels and digestive orders esp when getting ready for a root canal had a bad experience.

After that root canal was done i went away for a little trip to enjoy with my family. up until that point i was loose bowel and stomach issue. Let me just tell u when I was at that vacation spot for 3 days..i ate like a pig, junk food pizza and soda and alcohol. I didnt give a shyt anymore as long as i was with my family. i went down water slides and everything else...2 things i did different....ate yogurt (while on antibiotics for the root canal they did) and also relaxed for 45 minutes doing the SALT SPA treatment...basically you lay down in a chair and breahte in the salt in a quiet dark room. What happens next.... I pooped like a LONG LOG...a SNAKE..lol a perfectly good hard good lookin poop. lol excuse my sarcasm but the point is, no loose stool, no runny poop or diareah... it was seriously long and hard and flowed through... went on for this for few days. once a day.

Now i dont know if it was the yogurt, or the sea salt meditation i did that changed my body....id like to say that helped but what i think really did it for me was that i wasnt going to go to the dentist anymore.the worse part was done and the fear went away..once that happened i think my body calmed down by not giving a fuk anymore!
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Personally, I think the "not giving a fuk" was the primary reason for the improvement. Surrender is powerful! Glad everything came out alright! LOL
 
Mazinio said:
Hi Karim & everyone else. Thank you all for sharing. I am in a TMS LPR nightmare at the minute. Its nearly been a year since I started to develop a dry cough. Now I have irritation in my airways with every out breath, like a menthol type feeling, constant throat clearing and burping, even after water. I went to see an ENT who put me on meds and a diet. Nothing has worked and I have a camera going to down my throat to check it out next week as they said my throat was very inflamed and red at the first examination.

I had back pain for years and finally got on top of it with TMS. Now I have this and of of course am freaking out about cancer. I believe 90% it's TMS but that 10% is enough to cause horrible symptoms and mental anguish. It's so draining. The funny thing is I have no symptoms at night which I think says a lot. If it was structural and something serious I'm guessing I would be getting symptoms during the night.

Karim how are you doing and maybe we should help each other. Sounds like we have had similar journeys.

Cheers

Maz
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Hi I have the exact symptoms . How are you doing? Has anything helped?
 
Hey Nana, not sure about Maz but I think for me one of the biggest things was trying to find ways to calm and relax my body and my throat. I had some much tension on my throat because of all the hyper focus on it. Try some guided mediation for like 30 minutes. Throat chakras also helped me relax my throat. Not focusing or fearing any throat symptoms will also help it relax and get back to normal. I also did use l glutamin and lemon water in the morning and avoided coffee, chocolate beer and tomato sauce for a while to help calm my acid reflux down but that just to help temporarily while i worked on getting out of fight or flight mode.
 
zeeman01 said:
Hey Nana, not sure about Maz but I think for me one of the biggest things was trying to find ways to calm and relax my body and my throat. I had some much tension on my throat because of all the hyper focus on it. Try some guided mediation for like 30 minutes. Throat chakras also helped me relax my throat. Not focusing or fearing any throat symptoms will also help it relax and get back to normal. I also did use l glutamin and lemon water in the morning and avoided coffee, chocolate beer and tomato sauce for a while to help calm my acid reflux down but that just to help temporarily while i worked on getting out of fight or flight mode.
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Hi see man
Thank you for your reply.I am doing allll kinds of things, qigong, mediatation, therapy,,pneumologist, ct scan (all negative). My bronchios hurt mainly when I am walking around and doing house work . When I sit or lie down I am much better. I also get a cough and a weird breath feeling , like minty cold when I inhale and exhale . I have been like this for 4 months and every day feels the same
 
Nana said:
Hi see man
Thank you for your reply.I am doing allll kinds of things, qigong, mediatation, therapy,,pneumologist, ct scan (all negative). My bronchios hurt mainly when I am walking around and doing house work . When I sit or lie down I am much better. I also get a cough and a weird breath feeling , like minty cold when I inhale and exhale . I have been like this for 4 months and every day feels the same
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hi nana


perhaps you are doing too much of whatever your trying to do to fix yourself. That sends the wrong message to your body...that there is still danger.
ill give you a example i had with insomnia. After a stressful months, building a house, stressing with wife, anxiety of a airplane ride (fear of flying) i couldnt sleep. it was scary, thought i was going crazy, thought i would never fall asleep again. I was in FEAR of not sleeping.went on several sleeping meds, read books, exercised till i was ehasuted, slept with socks on, no socks, no coffee, tried different mattress, blanket on, blanket off, pillow between my legs...stopped eating at a certain time...kids had to tiptoe or werent even allowed in my room if i caught 1 or 2 hours of sleep... IT WAS HORRIBLE! meds didnt work after a while and the ones that did really made me into a vampire the next day.meaning pale, and totally tired. I was sad, depressed, anxious... had a nervous break down.
googling was the worse. everyday i would come home and google that sleep stuff. No matter what I tried...i COULD NOT SLEEP. Until 1 day my wife and i had a heart to heart talk 3am. She told me if she was running around going crazy finding out why i couldnt sleep she would go mad too lol
I unplugged the computer.... I STOPPED everything that i was doing to help me sleep... completely stopped and said to my self... I TRIED ALL I CAN...NOW IM DONE. I GIVE UP! IF I SLEEP I SLEEP. IF I DONT SLEEP I DONT CARE EITHER!! That was the KEY moment that lifted all the weight off my tensed shoulders! the first few nights i didnt sleep..but i kept going on my day. i didnt care...then all of a sudden gradually i started getting 1...2 hours of sleep... then 4 hours of sleep...then back to 1 hours of sleep...then 6 hours of sleep... then 2 hours of sleep... until finally I slept like a baby. That was 10 years ago. I slept like a baby since... i could drink soda and coffee and still can knock out no prbblem ( I wouldnt recommend that tho lol). I went 1 full year sleeping like a baby with 1 or 2 nights off but that didnt bother me at all WHY? Becuase i knew deep down or should i say (my subconcious mind) knew that the FEAR WAS GONE!!

I say that most symptoms or all this TMS stuff...the cure is ALL the same!

the more you try to fix the more you tell yourself there is something wrong and the sysmtoms (alarms) will keep on high alert.
What helped me was success stories and keeping mind busy..(not to avoid anxiety) but because i like doing so. I go to the gym also ...again not to distract my anxiety...but because i like doing that.

Hope this helps a bit. Take care!
 
elchessboy said:
hi nana


perhaps you are doing too much of whatever your trying to do to fix yourself. That sends the wrong message to your body...that there is still danger.
ill give you a example i had with insomnia. After a stressful months, building a house, stressing with wife, anxiety of a airplane ride (fear of flying) i couldnt sleep. it was scary, thought i was going crazy, thought i would never fall asleep again. I was in FEAR of not sleeping.went on several sleeping meds, read books, exercised till i was ehasuted, slept with socks on, no socks, no coffee, tried different mattress, blanket on, blanket off, pillow between my legs...stopped eating at a certain time...kids had to tiptoe or werent even allowed in my room if i caught 1 or 2 hours of sleep... IT WAS HORRIBLE! meds didnt work after a while and the ones that did really made me into a vampire the next day.meaning pale, and totally tired. I was sad, depressed, anxious... had a nervous break down.
googling was the worse. everyday i would come home and google that sleep stuff. No matter what I tried...i COULD NOT SLEEP. Until 1 day my wife and i had a heart to heart talk 3am. She told me if she was running around going crazy finding out why i couldnt sleep she would go mad too lol
I unplugged the computer.... I STOPPED everything that i was doing to help me sleep... completely stopped and said to my self... I TRIED ALL I CAN...NOW IM DONE. I GIVE UP! IF I SLEEP I SLEEP. IF I DONT SLEEP I DONT CARE EITHER!! That was the KEY moment that lifted all the weight off my tensed shoulders! the first few nights i didnt sleep..but i kept going on my day. i didnt care...then all of a sudden gradually i started getting 1...2 hours of sleep... then 4 hours of sleep...then back to 1 hours of sleep...then 6 hours of sleep... then 2 hours of sleep... until finally I slept like a baby. That was 10 years ago. I slept like a baby since... i could drink soda and coffee and still can knock out no prbblem ( I wouldnt recommend that tho lol). I went 1 full year sleeping like a baby with 1 or 2 nights off but that didnt bother me at all WHY? Becuase i knew deep down or should i say (my subconcious mind) knew that the FEAR WAS GONE!!

I say that most symptoms or all this TMS stuff...the cure is ALL the same!

the more you try to fix the more you tell yourself there is something wrong and the sysmtoms (alarms) will keep on high alert.
What helped me was success stories and keeping mind busy..(not to avoid anxiety) but because i like doing so. I go to the gym also ...again not to distract my anxiety...but because i like doing that.

Hope this helps a bit. Take care!
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Hi Elchess,

thank you so much for such a lengthy and detailed reply. It means a lot to me. I have been like this for 3-4months. Yes you are right I can not stop searching and thinking . The only thing is that I still have fear. Fear that this will not leave me. When I am tired it gets worse. Any how I will try to just move on and if I feel the right chest I will try to observe but not get too involved with it!!! Sometimes my brain is constantly trying to inderstand why and how and what if . It becomes exhausting to the point that there are now two problems the chest and the brain !!!! It is crazy! Sometimes I think well what if it is esophageal spasms and no doctor has thought of it and even if it is that , how do I treat it and will it ever get better . I scare myself with all my possible scenarios.
 
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Sometimes my brain is constantly trying to inderstand why and how and what if .
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Hi Nana,
That’s exactly what your TMS brain does! All day, every day. It wants you to be alert and hyper vigilant so you can fight off a saber tooth tiger. This brain is as dumb as a lizard. It just wants you alive. It doesn’t care if you have a good life or not. To get this lizard (primitive reptilian brain) to stop being in control, you have to DEFY it. How do you defy it? By NOT getting afraid of its tactics. The more you can live with your symptoms—calmly, quietly—-the lizard will let go.
 
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