Daniel L. New symptoms

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Hello
I came across Dr. Sarno 2 yrs ago and treated my foot pain and other muscular pains. Still working on my anxiety. For the past 1 week i am experiencing some belly ache and irritable bowel symptoms...Wondering if I should be worried or if I should try to ignore as TMS.
Thank you

 

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Long answer: I’m glad to hear you were successful in treating your foot pain and other muscular pains through a TMS approach. Because you were successful with a TMS approach in the past, there’s a strong chance that you will manifest other TMS symptoms again in the future. First and foremost we all always encourage individuals to have a doctor look at them to rule out something more serious like Crohns or ulcerative colitis, but my gut is telling me that you’re not dealing with that. What you’re dealing with is fear. Everyone gets a belly ache and some IBS symptoms (diarrhea, constipation, etc.) from time to time. This is totally normal. Your fear of what the belly ache and irritable bowel might become, however, is perpetuating the symptoms.

Short answer: Don’t worry, you’re fine.

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CMA, Daniel Lyman is right... you have some TMS pain but just keep working to reduce your anxiety.
Breathe deeply, live in the present moment, don't worry. Distract your mind with happy things to do
and think about.

 

Sorry just saw this when I logged in again...Thanks so much Daniel and Walt. I am still having IBS symptoms...Can you or somebody pin point me to any document or link that suggests how to identify an issue is TMS? I remember reading it somewhere...Thanks so much

 

Herbie's new video explains what is TMS very well.

http://tmswiki.org/forum/threads/ways-to-identify-tms.5721/

TMS is responsible for most pain that is not diagnosed as structural.

 

Sorry. This Herbie's video:

http://tmswiki.org/forum/threads/what-to-know-to-heal-from-pain-pt-1.5482/