Struggling to overcome symptoms (discomfort/itchy anus)

Hey everyone,

I first discovered Sarno and TMS about 4 years ago when I was having elbow and wrist pain. I thought I had CTS or a torn ligament in my elbow. After about a year of trying everything to fix it, nothing made sense and I discovered Sarno. I implemented the teachings and very slowly recovered. It took absolute belief that it was psychological.

I was about 2-3 months without any symptoms until a series of triggering events happened and I began to experience symptoms around the pelvic area (golf ball feeling, constipation, itching, ache). The worst symptom has easily been the itching. It is almost impossible to concentrate on anything when your anus is itching - talk about a pain in the ass! I have noticed nothing structural so I don't believe it is a hemorrhoid. It's possible it could be a fissure but no OTC creams seem to do much.

This has been going on for almost 2 years and even though I am 99% sure it is TMS, it's been so hard to let go because it feels so urgent of a sensation. I've had a few periods of days where it has been gone (and usually they were when I was fully enveloped in working on things - this lends more credence to it being TMS). Also, making it harder is that I will have days where I get so angry and fed up over it (basically telling myself I'd rather deal with pain/discomfort anywhere but THERE) that I feel like they become set backs, and the cycle begins anew.

Not sure if there is any point to this post - just getting it off my chest. Or maybe someone has experienced similar.

Thanks for reading

 

I caught myself doing that the other day. Itchiness is my low grade anxiety warning I get before pain.
I have one particular spot on my leg that has itched for years...and there is nothing there. It usually bugs when I am at work and feel under pressure.

Once I thought I had athletes foot and itched until it bled. I went to the doctor for help and he also said 'You don't have athletes foot....there is nothing there!"

Over the last few years as I have changed my thoughts about it, it has mellowed out. I just use the same strategy we use for pain...."What is bugging me right now? Why?"

I always need the right question, not the right answer

It is my early warning system for lower grade stuff. Usually work, money, time pressure

 

Love this quote!

 

Hi,checked for pinworms?

 

I'm sorry you're having symptoms. I think too, that you said it in a nut shell..it's a pain in the ass. I healed chronic shoulder pain around 2014 with Dr. Sarno..but I still use all I learned about TMS in my life, almost every day. And maybe this example might help you a little, I had a urinary tract issue for about a year, but never an infection, so finally after trying everything, every supplement, every exercise, multiple doctors, I said you know what..I'm pissed off. And I dug into the my trusty 30 day TMS workbook and used the prompts to target who or what I was so mad at. And of course not going to get it looked at anymore, and giving it no more of my fear. And it's gone. I never let myself even entertain that it's anything else but TMS. It works for me. (another hint it's TMS, is what you already know..it moves, and it can come and go) I hope you feel better soon!!

But also like @cloud said...if you haven't treated yourself for pinworms..do that first. I have a gaggel of kids, and I used food grade diatomaceous earth to de-worm them when they were little. HAHA! It's funny now they are grown.

 

That's it. People often ask me how I can fend off stuff, or get over it really quickly.

Doing the 'Who/what I am pissed off, about' run down is the key to early victory.

I had something happen yesterday. My eyes got all kind of painful and itchy, weepy because of a POSSIBLE something or other in my eye. I flushed them and found some wood chips and stuff that had got stuck in there.....BUT, my mind was racing. It felt like the beginning of fear and obsession.

"What if I look funny on Saturday...what if I have pink eye....what if this feeling doesn't go away?"

STOP!

I spent the day as an extra on a TV set with my whole Baseball Team. I remembered why I HATE the film industry. I remembered why I walked away from it twice and I remember back in the day thinking 'Wow they really treat the extra's crappy' and now I volunteered to be one. Gee...what might be bothering me?

I had been socially pressured to do it. "They need all of us.." So, if I said No, the rest of the guys might not have been able to do it. This is a TMS set-up.

My son is getting married Saturday, but it's a hundred+ miles away. I love my son and his new wife...BUT I have massive anxiety about leaving my dog alone, driving that far, etc. I would guess, I am unconsciously angry about all of the social pressure.

So instead of fixating on how bad my eye is itching and weeping , I close my eyes and really went 'there' with all of the little anger makers. Then I went to bed. I woke up and the unbearable physical symptom is gone.

None of my feelings of fear and social pressure have changed other than they have moved higher into my awareness and I no longer need the itch. I will also be very mindful until these adventures are over.

 

Yes! The set up..lol! Once you know..for me it was after reading all the Dr.Sarno and healing the chronic pain in my shoulder..that had been diagnosed with x-rays as a spinal degenerative disorder and a repetitive motion injury (different doctor's diagnosed different things) and then doing the workbook and the terrible pain going away, that I would then notice the set up of TMS in many other things...I would be mad or not want something but do it anyway..or be beating myself up for something and there would be a corresponding body pain or ache or itch or swelling or rash and I got really good, (sometimes) at seeing the set up and going for the "work" faster..the work for me being sitting down with some loose leaf paper so I could throw it away if I wanted to..and letting myself write out all the "bad" stuff I was thinking and feeling and connecting it to whatever symptom was trying to distract me. And yes, for me the body area was important too, especially if I didn't know right away why it was happening. While I don't remember Dr.Sarno making the specific connection to a body part holding any clues, there are many wisdom traditions that have mapped the body and connections to the emotions and areas of life impacted or represented.