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Ok I'm not sure if I have opened this topic in the correct forum. Please move this if it is in the wrong place.
Alright so.. back in 2017, I developed this weird back ache which resulted as poor posture while sitting before PC. As time went, the pain became severe and I began to feel it all the time. Soon I began to feel a different kind of pain.. I felt numb, tingling sensation at random spots on my back. It lasted for over 4 months. I would feel it at random spots on my back. I began to do exercises but they didn't help. I even visited doc.. underwent diagnosis, scans.... The doctors said they don't find anything wrong with the reports and I was perfectly alright, physically. Over time I realized I only felt this pain only when I think about it. I mean, I used to wake up each morning feeling normal and eventually the thought of that back ache creeps in.. and voila, I began to feel weird tingling (or) ache (or) numbness at random spots on my back. It was not only on my back but sometime even at my shoulders. As time went, I joined a new job and eventually I forgot all about my pain. It was a miracle actually.. I went about a year and half (2017 - 2018) not thinking about it. And I was perfectly alright. Ok now this past Feburary, I once had to do a lifting of some sort and it caused a mild back ache and I had a deja vu of my past. The thought of the back pain, numbness, tingling automatically creeped into my mind. And it's been like 3 months now and I couldn't get rid of the thought from my mind. The tingling, ache, numbness it's all back.. only when I think about it. I really find it hard to not think about it. I mean I used to wake up each morning perfectly alright and eventually the thought hits my mind.. I can't help it Whenever I'm completely engaged in something, I feel nothing and when my mind becomes free.. I automatically think about that pain and it occurs to me immediately. Please help. Thank you |
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my best advice is for you to find some more stuff to engage yourself in, and more positive distractions. your reports were fine from the doctor which is a good start
if it gets worse, by all means go back and explain to them what it feels like and ask for the tests again but my guess it's just a bit of health anxiety.. you think about the pain and all the things that people can have go wrong with their backs and think well, what if that's me anxiety can do strange things to the brain (including thinking you have pain when you don't). I'm often in the hospital for fake heart attacks, for example- my brain thinks i'm having a heart attack, but actually I'm fine |
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