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| | Notices | Welcome to PTSD Forum. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a life threatening, debilitating disorder that can break down a sufferer’s body through anxiety and stress. Further it poses a significant suicide risk resulting from the brains neurological imbalance and chemical depression. Sufferers often live in denial, thus this community is aimed at helping PTSD sufferers help themselves through others experiences, guidance and education. We are here for the sufferer, spouse and families surrounding PTSD. Spouses and family are too often forgotten in this equation, and often they receive all the worst that PTSD has to offer. If you're involved in any way with PTSD, get registered and help yourself now. Non-active members will eventually be deleted. If you are not a sufferer, carer or someone within the mental health industry, and active, then there is little reason for you to be a member of this forum. Non-active members with zero posts are deleted periodically during the year. |  | | 
14-01-2007, 03:04 PM
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| |  Just Trying To Keep Going - Fighting Anxiety
Hello all. I just wanted to say Hi since it had been a while since I posted. I've been extremely uptighte lately and just fighting my anxiety. Dr. say they cant see any thing after an MRI. So I guess I'm fighting pain from my mind. Maybe I need to be hipnotized...I don't know. I just dont see whats so damned hard about finding whats screwed up in my back and fixing it.:dont-know I just feel like running down the road with my hands in the air screaming "What the hell next?"  I guess I shouldn't though the VA has already killed me once(took 3 months too straighten out) and lost my med file(8 years ago and its still gone). Who knows what they will do next? My god cant it just end? |
14-01-2007, 03:49 PM
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Keep your chin up ranger2 .You know they arent as smart ,as they think they are. Hope the school thing is going well. From the great white north....mj |
14-01-2007, 03:56 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: charles town, wv (usa)
Posts: 1,271
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hang in there, ranger. |
14-01-2007, 03:57 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: T. Bay, Ontario Canada
Posts: 3,231
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Put one foot in front of the other, and I'll walk with you.. keep going...
bec |
14-01-2007, 04:41 PM
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Take a deep breath and remember that you have friends you don't know who are wondering the same things about this life experience. Then grit your teeth and take more steps forward. Your path is right there under the overgrown weeds, you just have to kick them aside to see and follow it. |
14-01-2007, 05:28 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: U.S.A. Kansas
Posts: 3,540
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Ranger don't hold your breath on those MRIs as to is your pain real or not. I know I feel pains that I have no reason to have except the injuries to start it. And my daddy had the file lost by the VA when his back was broke when he was shot down, VA is a joke with files.
I am sure it is very frustrating to be told they cannot find why you have the pain. It is normal for PTSD. It is normal to have the pain and no way to "see" it. It is real and there. No wonder your anxiety level is up. Just know you are in good company here who understands it is still there and very real. Just one of those PTSD perks... Keep in touch on here, we get it. |
14-01-2007, 07:49 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: canada
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you can make it Ranger i I am sorry that you hurt so bad but keep going they will find an answer for you eventually , we are all here with you Take Care my friend -Mouse |
15-01-2007, 06:12 AM
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Thank you all. I realy do apreciate all your suport. |
15-01-2007, 06:19 AM
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ranger: it took around 15 years for them to find out what was wrong with my back.. they kept telling me it was all in my head until my back started swelling up.. turns out it's not my back but my hips.. they like to dislocate about every third step.. not much they can do.. but at least I know what not to do now and can manage my own pain without major medications.. They can't find out what is wrong because they are not gods and just refuse to admit it.. while waiting for them to figure it out.. start looking at what reduces or manages the pain. If a lack of sleep makes it worse then you know you need to work on a regular sleeping pattern (ohhh so much hard to do than say eh?), perhaps there are certain stretches that help, chiropractor, massages etc.. start focusing on this.. it's trail and error but you'll get farther looking at this aspect than trying to figure out what's wrong..
bec |
15-01-2007, 12:24 PM
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