Need to share

[Ocean8]

MR PA had posted a link to a dp/dr site and I stumbled on a old post on that site that I really wanted to share.  The link is:     http://www.dpselfhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9402

It is a little long but it gave me so much to think about today and even though it is written in a dp/dr forum you can equate it to any form of HA.

I've been dealing with chronic headaches for 3 years and over the past three months became active in trying to see what the root is.  Due to the HA I went down the brain tumor and ms roads.  The left side of my face goes numb, my left arm and leg go numb........very scary and unnerving.  Like many of you have said I really knew I had ms but deep, deep down I knew I was fine but the symptoms were SO real and really disrupting my life.  My gp was perplexed the nero finally diagnosed me as a tension/migraine suffer.  I had a clean brain ct scan and brain MRI.  Anyways, the nero wanted to try me on Topamax but like many HA people I fear side effects and boy this drug has them.  Even the neru warned me of them.  Anyways, I tried seeing a chiropractor/accupunter person this week for the headaches.  As he was thumbing around my head I was tense without realizing it.  He said, and this has rung in my head since my visit yesterday.....'LET IT GO'.   I'm a very black and white person so when they say 'IT'  I never quit get it.  He said it a couple of times and I gave in mentally, put down my guard and let my worries float away for that second.  What a difference!  Anyways, I read the above link this morning and with that man's voice saying 'let it go' life went better today.  There's hope guys....really.......rember to breath slow and take it one hour to one day at a time 

[Pan]

Thanks for posting that was really informative and uplifting with some really valid points.

Here is a very similar thread that I found quite by chance, I have posted it before but you may have missed it:

http://nextination.com/aboutbfs/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5865

I really really like this as similar to what you posted this gets to the heart of health anxiety....it is so reassuring when you realise that other people are in the same situation.  What gives me the most hope though is not that people have the same symptoms but that people have the same knowledge as to how recovery is possible, it is just that some people take longer to implement it....this point above all others shows that I don't have a neuro nasty and that my mind will let my body recover.

[Ocean8]

Thanks for the link....another long one but well worth the read.  Actually, I really need to read it again later to let it all soak in.  It's work but I know from long ago when I didn't have all these issues if I worked hard - positive always came form it....why should overcoming this be any different.  Kinda like an Alcoholic.  An Alcoholic can't be cured until they acknowledge they have a problem.  They have to accept that their way of coping with things ISN'T working.  Much like many of us. If the doctor says or test shows no ms or what other nasty issue we need to breath deep and move on, redirect our focus, let go and move on.  Unless we accept the diagnoses we will remain ill.  I know, we all think well the Dr could be wrong, what did he miss but if we never HONESTLY accept what they says then there is NO hope in getting out of vivacious cycle.  I'm still having my headaches along with some numbness and DP/Dr but I'm really trying to keep busy with the kids.  I remind myself I'm not dying and live hour to hour....sometimes it's minute to minute:)  When the people around you start sensing that your a little more content and happy with life they to lift their moods and it's contagious.