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| Suz |
Posted - 08/03/2005 : 14:18:44
Has anyone managed to resolve skin problems through Sarno's methods? I would love to hear of progress. My digestive issues have gone with my change in diet but my skin has taken over.
Any tips would be great! I am trying not to look at the breakouts and ignore them. I also think it would be good to discontinue all topical creams. |
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| Irish Jimmy |
Posted - 08/11/2005 : 19:28:22
Suz,
I stopped all acne treatments after reading Sarno's MBP over a year ago. My acne did not get worse, but it has not gotten completely better. I do feel my acne is TMS. I try not to pay attention to it, but I can certainly understand how this difficult for you.
I have been on every acne med you can think of from the time I was 14. I consider it my first TMS symptom, or distraction if you will. What has been encouraging is that my skin may not be 100%, but it is better than when I was taking an antibiotic and two topical creams, one day and one night. It is nice to be off that schedule.
I have also tried visualizing my face and back being completely clear. I have started doing this recently along with talking to my brain and informing it that I know the acne is TMS and is a distraction. Overall, I'm happy with the results. I know the emotional pain of having acne, and to this day I always feel bad when I see anybody out in public who has a bad case. It is the goodist in me. I know what it does to ones' self-confidence. Hang in there, and good luck.
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| Laura |
Posted - 08/03/2005 : 19:58:41
Okay, I realize what I said made no sense. The reason I got dizzy when I reached down to get the mail (I think) is because we have no money right now to pay bills and there was a huge stack of them in the bundle of mail.
Laura
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| Laura |
Posted - 08/03/2005 : 19:57:28
Suz,
It does sound like a condition reaction. I think you should just eat as you so choose and try to ignore the breakouts and they will disappear too.
I wish I could find a way to ignore this blasted dizziness. I'm getting really sick of it. Every time it comes on I realize I've had some awful thought right before. Like, today I was getting the mail that was held while we were on vacation. I loaded it up in my car and when I got home some of it fell out. When I bent down to get it I felt that same awful feeling. It only lasts for a second or two, but shakes me up every time. I try to ignore it and I've even been strong enough to laugh at it. But lately, I'm so stressed out and serious about everything I'm having a hard time doing so.
Anyway, good luck with the breakouts. Just think, maybe they'll go away and you'll have some new thing pop up (just kidding).
Laura
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| Suz |
Posted - 08/03/2005 : 19:45:40
I forgot to add something.
The problem with this acne thing is that I only seem to get it when I eat sugar or carbs. My skin is so so clear when I do protein and veggies. I am pretty sure that this is a conditioned reaction of my skin. It is hard to see skin issues being linked with the brain like back pain. I guess that I have seen so many dermatologists that it is hard to ignore them all. My big problem to get over is the following of the blood type diet - I have been doing it for 10 years and it keeps my skin totally clear. However, it has never resolved my digestive issues. Ever since, i started eating fruit and rice and wheat again, my constipation has gone YEAH! First time in 10 years that I have stopped all fibre supplements, special teas etc. that i have been taking for the problem.
I guess I should do the same for my skin. How on earth does one break the pattern with eating??? I guess I have to ignore the breakouts in the same way. It is tough to stop all creams as I am vain and don't want to look worse the next day for work.
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| Suz |
Posted - 08/03/2005 : 19:41:07
Interesting, Laura. I am definitely angry right now with everything that has happened. My world is upside down. I am mostly angry that my fiance - now ex fiance has put me through all of this. I am angry that I have been kidding myself that marriage was a good idea for us.
I am furious that I put myself in this situation. I feel like screaming right now. I was crying all the time, now I just feel anger |
| Laura |
Posted - 08/03/2005 : 14:31:12
I have skin problems but they take the form of hives not breakouts. For the past 25 years or so I've had this thing happen to me when I go out in the sun. If I got burnt, then I got a rash and then there would be itchy hives all over where the area was burnt. This only seemed to happen to me in Hawaii or places like that, where the sun was very strong. Now, I have a base tan already and we went on our vacation to La Jolla and Laguna Beach and sure enough, I'm broken out in hives again. I have to wonder if it's not so much the sun as it is my reaction to all the bulls--- going on in my life - marital problems, financial stress, mother issues, plus the usual stuff entailed in raising to teenage daughters and all their drama. I can't stop itching yet I won't use the anti-itch cream I bought. I think I read that hives were a TMS equivalent.
Louise Hay says that pimples are "small outbursts of anger." She says that hives are caused by "Small hidden fears. Mountains out of molehills." Hmmmm. I know I've got plenty of fears (will we have more money soon?, will my marriage end in divorce?, will I ever feel healthy and lose the dizziness for good?, etc., etc.) Does the one for acne breakouts apply to you?
Laura
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| Lou |
Posted - 08/03/2005 : 14:26:21
my 1st bout with TMS was HIVES..
Everytime I would raise my body temp, I would breakout.
Soon, I was on heavy doses of Anti-histamanes(sp) and steriods, once the meds got the hives under control, the back pain started. This all happened over a 3-4 year period.
By the time I found my way to sarno's office, the hives were no longer a problem, but I was still taking meds for them everyday.
The 1st thing he said was "stop taking those useless meds", it was scary, but I stopped them that day, and it was summer which was when the hives became more of an issue due to the heat.
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