A Relief After Hearing the Truth

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LeftyCanuck1

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Hi Folks:I have recently ran across this post which I found was a great great help for me to read. Hope you get as much out of it as I did. Sometimes when you finally hear the truth its a big relief.See ya!Lefty C
 
There was a great post on this board once too, about the exact same subject. I forget the exact wording, but a doctor said something to the effect of "The minute a patient comes in and pulls out a laundry list of symptoms, I know it isn't MS. That's when I put down my clipboard and I smile at them. Because the more symptoms you have, the less likely it is ever anything serious."
 
Hi agian:Its been about three weeks since I read this post and its totally changed me! Many of you guys are fairly new to this, just wait till your two years in like me, then read this post and it will be even more applicable to you.I said to my wife that I wish I had read it two years ago and she said that it might not have done any good, that I needed to go down that road to have that fit my symptoms.It all ties in nicely for me because since last August I have been a member of the anxietycentre.com which Mariaj from this site introduced me too, so when I read that post I could tie everything together and come to a better conclusion. If anyone had told me that I could turn it around in one year I wouldn't have believed them, but its been a gradual step up out of that dark hole of not knowing that creates the fear that creates the anxiety that causes MY twitches (I say MY strongly because there are many on this site who disagree with this theory and thats fine).So that about it Folks, hope you are feeling well soon.Take it easy, Lefty C
 
I can assure you all that post is right on. That person might have even got help at the same place I did because the way some things were worded, like the "resetting the thermostat".Once I received real help and learned how an overactive nervous system causes all of these symptoms I was eventually able to eliminate "BFS". It took some time but I did get my life back. I came back here and posted my experience and to my surprise was sort of "attacked" by some that were in anxiety denial.Here I am over 2 years later and still doing well. I will never have a "relapse" because I know to much. Do I still get a twitch every once in a while? Sure I do, as does everyone else. I still sneeze occasionally too as I give a twitch no more importance as I do a sneeze or a cough.All of you have anxiety issues whether you accept it or not. If you don't accept it that is because you don't understand it and unfortunately you will never get better until you accept your condition and do something about it. Many of you are probably like I was, a chronic worrier, self examiner when it comes to health, tend to think the worse, etc. These are all bad habits that wear down the nervous system over time. I didn't realize it at the time however I have had those bad habit since childhood. I remember as a kid always concerned I was having a heart attack every time I had a chest pain, or thinking I could have some other serious ailment any time I had other symptoms.There are so many bad behavioral habits that you could be doing on a daily basis and not even know it. Besides what I already mentioned I always avoided confrontation, was a chronic people pleaser, often concerned what others thought about me, etc. I had a laundry list of bad habits that are anxiety traits. All of which contributed to my nervous system to finally "break" and start producing the symptoms that so many talk about here.You can go years with these bad habits before your body starts showing symptoms. I went my whole life and all hell broke lose in my late 30's. The bottom line is everything I mentioned causes underlying stress which eventually overstimulates the nervous system. It can be subtle like it was in my case or it can be outright stress like work or family related. My wife started with all of this crap after her mom died. Besides many of the symptoms here she also developed what most label "fibromyalgia". However all of these things are due to the nervous system going out of whack due to steady stress over years or sudden intense stress over a short period of time.Just like me, my wife got better. Thanks to what I went through she understood why she was having "BFS" and "fibro" symptoms. Watching her mom die from cancer over the years was too much for her and her body let her know that.Anyway, it's always interesting to come back here every once in a while just for the satisfaction to see how far I have came and also to occasionally post something that will help others. If any of you are interested I found that initial post I made after I found the real answer to this thing. I recommend reading my initial post and not those that were trying to tell me I was wrong. If you are already anxious it's not good to read negative posts from other anxious people thinking the worst. Here is the link to my post
 
Great post. Told my story to a tee. Years of anxiety/stress ( GAD as you call it!) has lead to my BFS, in my mind, without doubt. and yes worry just creates more worry (Where's the fire!!) On meds now, helping with the anxiety, and BFS ( I think). Crazy thing with anxiety is I get stressed about crazy things, like work load for instance. Go silly in dealing with it ie doing a millions things at once, so I can deal with it ASAP, (to relieve my stress created by thinking about all I have to do ie finish the jobs to lose the stress) but get more stressed over creating the million things that must be to finished TODAY....when in reality I proabably have a week to do them! I plan/book/sort things 6 months in advance, so they are out of the way ( to reduce anxiety)..and forget what I actually did 6 months ago! Simple things... Take the butter out of the fridge and ( sub-consciously) put it back before i use it, as I know it must go away....crazy stuff. Yes all contributed to my BFS I think....phew.....cheers...
 
I'm really glad that this post has helped people on here. I am (was) pan on anxiety zone and wrote the post. I very rarely visit AZ now due to a variety of reasons but mainly because I honestly believe that staying on forums and chat rooms once you are on the road to recovery is the worse thing you can do. It just becomes far too easy to indentify with the condition and your symptoms and in a perverse way the disorder actually starts to become an integral and important part of your life that you are scared to let go of.Crikey, when I look back to my crazy 3 years of health anxiety I struggle to make sense of it....in particular the belief/conviction that I had ALS/MND, it just seems so illogical and crazy now but back then it was everything to me, it was my every waking thought, it was my whole *beep* life.I used to post here but became somewhat frustrated by the BFS thesis if I'm honest. From my experience and from speaking to countless neuro's and mental specialists and anxiety experts I am 100% convinced that benign fasculations are the by product of nothing more than a tired, stressed and burnt out nervous system....once we then analyse these twitches as a neuro nasty we pour gas on the fire and the whole sorry anxiety state is increased tenfold. The irony is we spent hours, days, weeks, months and may be even years grasping for answers when it is this search that adds to the problem. Once we start to lose the emotional and fearful investment in our twitches they can literally vanish overnight. We must always remember that we always only ever fear what we have kidded ourselves the twitches represent rather than the twitches themselves....drop that first part and recovery is inevitable.Anyways, just to say thanks for your comments on the thread and I'm truly touched it has helped some people. As a recovered sufferer from health anxiety I am actually just finishing off a book about health anxiety and my experience of it...I am trying to locate a UK publisher so watch this space.
 
Great post! And I completely agree. The real enemy here isn't BFS, it is your interpretation of BFS. Once you stop worrying about the interpretation, the BFS fades away. There's only so much the human nervous system can take, and you yourself are generally the one doing it.
 

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