Jane/DOES ANY ONE HAVE SPASMS/ emotional pain management

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Hi Jane, nice to meet you.

I do have spasms, cramps and tremors.

The most i hate the spasms. I can't really contribute in what helps than other than i take alprazolam, as in Xanax, as in a muscle relax

medication. I just endure them.

Sometimes, I have spasms in my hands, in my feet, my legs and back, sometimes it's hard to breath.

I have cramps in my head too, also feels almost like 'spasms' in my head, inside too.

They hurt. I do a lot of pain management. By accident, as i can't read books, this pain management of mine seems to be a book, long before i had thought about physical pain management.

I do many things for it, even dreams help too. I might leave you now with a question mark, it may not help you. Yet, in my situation, dreaming and alternate my dreams helps to cope with things. I think any creative way could help to cope.

The whole idea is to go towards the pain, instead of trying to block

the pain. It's very individual how much a person can take. For me , there are pains i can endure with less pain management, while others as the spasms need my full attention.

For the pains i can't endure, i actively start every morning with exploring the pains. By now, i can discern usual pains from severe pains.Every day is a big surprise how to get out of bed, even the hour i awake..

When i have severe pain, i go towards that pain and let my emotions flow for ten minutes. I may feel totally devistated or crumbsy or sad, but i just let the emotions come out for ten minutes.

I live alone, yet in an apartment where you don't have much privacy, so i think the neighbors might have heard me crying and yelling. Too bad for them. I let these thoughts out too. I do this several times a day, when the pain is bad, especially with muscular pain, i do this whenever i need to. The sad thing is, i would like to contact anyone by phone or email, yet aren't capable to do so.

Before any spasm, an uncontrolled contradiction, i do daily exercises. In general i exercise. It's not like going to a gym, good for who are in a condition to do so, but i am not, yet i do exercises even on my bed, if i need to. I'm a bit if a control freak, to be honest. i need to this go, for all the health issues.I hope you are not.

Also i come from an artistic family, yet i was the only one into dance and therefor i learned to know my body. I was rejected for the Scapino Ballet at age nine, as it seemed i had a slight condition of Sheuermann, a neurologist of the Dutch National Ballet diagnosed me with this. It was so slight i grew over it, yet a curve in my spine stayed.

Besides the pain management, in modern dance contractions are movements made on purpose. So our spasms are dance movements.

Relaxing muscle exercises help me too, to know how to relax the rest of my body when a part of my body is into this uncontrolled contraction movement.

I live alone. There's no one around here to help. Sometimes conditions like cramps, tremors may announce the spasms, most of the times it's just taken me by surprise. I have a phone with a long wire, still the conventional phone, to carry around through the house or have it moved in my range. My fear is to get paralyzed, not just for temporary moments, but for longer. Occasionally i fall down on my knees or my legs just quit, and than i still hope i will not have all at the same time. Just in case i have thought of helpful things, just to ease my mind.

There a few people who will take care of me if i need to, yet in some circumstances i just don't let anyone near me.

I certainly do understand you hate it your son needs to carry you to the bath-room, and at the same time, i think good for you.

I hope our spasms will stay away.

micha.

DOES ANY ONE HAVE SPASMS

I would like to know if any of you have,what the doc's like to call spasms, in the neck,shoulders,down the arms in the hands and in the upper back. I think that they feel more like a Charlie's,like i get in the calf of my legs.

Sometimes it feels like my bones are going to break,I cant walk,I cant even talk.My son has to carry me to the bathroom...I just hate that.he is 16.

Sometimes they last just a few days,to weeks or even months.I use to go to the ER but they refuse to treat ME any more.so I just suffer now.he flexeril don't help when they get that bad.So i just lay in bed and cry...I just had a bout with them last week,It was not fun...Thank god they only lasted for 3 days this time...

I would like to thank you all for the welcomes that you sent,I am sorry I cant answer all of them all the time.I do read the though...(SIX FLAGS commercial is on...love it)...have to go for now...best wishes to all...

Jane