Re: [TMIC] Frustrated!!

[Diane]

Oh what a great description, Trudy!
TM is like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates.  You never know what you're going 
to get.
I have to wear loose chothes because they might hurt.  I used to go to church 
every Sunday but the pain from the wooden pews was just too much.  

I measure everything before I do it because there are consequences.  For 
example, dinner at my daughter's will cost me about two days' down time.  A 
trip to the drugstore means two hours in bed.  It means deciding ahead of time 
if I'm willing to pay the price of worstening symptoms.  It usually is because 
I'm just so pig headed.  I'm 9 years into TM and I've learned to read my body - 
such as it is.

Heat wave here too - upper 90's & over 100 with the humidex.  Whether it's hot 
or cold, I's noticed that atmospheric pressures affect my symptoms more than 
temperature and boy, are they affected this week.
Diane in Canada
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Trudy Ogilvie 
  To: tmic 
  Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 8:18 PM
  Subject: [TMIC] Frustrated!!


  This TM has got to be the weirdest!!! You change your shoes and your legs go 
crazy. You put on a pair of jeans - the legs don't like 'em - you sit too long 
on a hard-surfaced chair... WATCH OUT - pay for that mistake.  I feel as tho 
from the hips down I have just been poured into a cement block. What did I 
do??? I went to church, came home and changed my shoes and my clothes... Is it 
just me or does anyone else have this problem of different shoes, clothes, hard 
benches... and the legs sometimes just don't like the way things have gone and 
boy do they let you know...  Is this some sort of attack?? It's very scary. I 
know that when I wake up I never know how these legs are going to greet me...  
but usually it's just a matter of  of all over regular every day pain. Did I 
sit wrong? Did I kneel too long... Hmmm maybe church isn't a good idea... just 
kidding.... :)
  It's my lifeline....  
  Thought I would just share these painful moments with those who really 
understand!
  Maybe it's the unbearable heat wave we've got going here in Virginia...
  Take care all
  Trudy