Stomach problems evidence sheet

[sleepyjay]

Soooo i'm back again with my stomach issues. Honestly they are my hardest and most persistent symptom and i did not make much leeway with them, though they got easier to ignore.
Since shortly after christmas i regularly (but not every day) get really bad stomach cramps after dinner. I tried to go at it the usual TMS way but its very persistent, with Last night being so horrible that i did not sleep at all, so i thought maybe an evidence sheet could bring me a bit further along.
Here goes:

Pro:
- it only appears after dinner and never after another meal
- it appeared on the day where we had a family christmas dinner (the first without my grandparents), christmas was a bad time for me mentally anyway
- i'm dissatisfied with my life a lot at the moment and it's definitly a big stressor
- the cramps always came when i ate with other people, so maybe i was subconciously stressed about that
- it was mostly "new" food or at least food that i not usually and regularly eat, at least in these combinations
- have a lot of decisions i have to make at the monent (even if they're just small)
-putting off the big, scary decisions right now (life could become really uncertain in a while and i don't want to deal with that right now -> distraction)


Con:
- the food that really broke my back last night was stuff i normally never eat and a lot of raw vegetables which are known to be hard on the stomach
- there's a weird stomach bug going through my friend circle
- could just be that i ate unusual food and my stomach reacts to that since i'm really sensitive with stuff like that
- symptoms don't react to the TMS work at all (outcome independence, somatic tracking, journaling, messages of safety, just living life)

 

[Cactusflower]

Sleepyjay:
Take a look at this old post, and see if it helps you. I came across it last night. In the past, I have had real problems reading Steve O's posts because like Sarno, he doesn't always spell things out the way I personally need to hear them. This had so many nuggets in it through:

https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threads/how-i-became-pain-free-steve-ozanich.2678/ (Steven Ozanich - HOW I BECAME PAIN FREE -- Steve Ozanich)

 

[sleepyjay]

Hi Cactusflower,
Thank you for the response! I definitly agree with you with the way things are spelled out, which i think is part of the Problem for me right now.
I had success with my other pain-sensations by doing it like Steve did but no luck for my gastrointestinal problems. So i'm searching for a different way to handle them since they appears resistant to the tools that normally work and i don't find it as "easy" to handle as, for example, my joint pain.