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toughguysdontdance Hello, new member here, I think I have TMS (page: 1 2) 22 Nov 18 2010, 7:59 PM EST by toughguysdontdance
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Hello everyone,

I am new here. I have been reading through the threads on this forum and its great that you guys are helping each other.

I am in India and I have been suffering from a mild weakness on the right side of my body (right arm and legs and slight twitching in my right eye) over the last 2 years. Its hardly a weakness - because i can use the right hand to lift heavy weights and I swim regularly. But I have noticed that the weakness gets slightly acute when I feel angry at someone or something. I have these intense and tremendous bouts of internal rages after which I get the slight weakness on the right side of my body. I am generally known as a quite, harmless type among my colleagues at work - but then they dont really know much about my internal rages.

I have been to a neurologist as well as an orthopedecian. The neurologist said he could not find anything wrong with me and told me to come back if the weakness got worse. And the truth is that it hasnt really got any worse but it hasnt gone away either.

What the orthopedician said was even more interesting. I was worried sick about the weakness and wanted to do a brain MRI (fear of brain haemmorhage). But the orthopedician said a brain MRI would be a waste of time and money and that I looked like someone who was extremely stressed out and was worrying/fearing too much about my illness. He prescribed a mood enhancer. He did some basic tests on my hands and legs for signs of weakness and concluded that the problem was in my mind. I also suffer from stuttering, so he said the reason for the weaknes could be intense stress at work. I work as a financial analyst of equities and my job involves a lot of pressure.

I did some research on the internet and came across the medscape.com interviews with Dr.John Sarno and realized that I could be suffering from TMS. Because I feel weak only during and after my internal rages.
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