I believe!! Very tired, but feeling truly positive for the first time in months....
#264453 - 05/20/06 02:47 AM
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Blondie13
Reged: 02/28/06
Posts: 641
Loc: Sheffield, England
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So, I had my first meeting with Mike Mahoney in Warrington yesterday... I won't give all the details of how I got there, etc etc, but the most important bit - Mike is very obviously a GREAT guy, his voice was the most relaxing I've ever heard and I really, truly believe he might just be the person to help me beat this! 
The session was so fascinating - and it was so hard not to cry when he basically told me how I was feeling, all the 'side effects' of suffering from IBS (always tired, difficulty concentrating, recall problems, emotional, loss of confidence and self esteem, loss of positive attitude, inability to deal with other, added stress well, sex life almost non-existent, depression, etc etc) - it was just so amazing having someone understand every single part of it. And he's never even had IBS himself, that's what makes it so fabulous!
He noted that I have very shallow chest breathing, so I have my first homework - he's given me tips on how to teach myself to do deep abdominal breathing instead, which I've never been able to do before. He says it'll take a while... but by the time I've mastered it my IBS should be just about cured!!
The whole process sounds amazing, obviously I won't go into
details, but he already had me 'owning' my pain - using the whole colour/shape/texture/sound thing, and already I'm finding it helps. I went out of the medical centre feeling like I could fly! Sounds daft I know, but it felt that great... 
So the most important part of all - my first session is 12th June, 1pm. YAY!!
The journey and appointment absolutely took it out of me, I was so exhausted I fell asleep on Jamie's knee when we got back (about 10.30pm), and he capitalised and woke me up so we could go to bed, as I don't normally til after 3am. So up we went, and though I had problems sleeping and kept waking up, it was like in positive, content haze, and it wasn't a problem. Jamie got up early this morning to drive down to the South coast to pick up our new bath (ebay bargain - water jets and air jets and MASSIVE! ), and after he'd gone I kept getting nightmares so I'm up, but still absolutely exhausted so thinking it'll be a lunchtime nap day... 
Rambling again, but just feels so AWESOME to feel positive for the first time in SO long!! A MASSIVE thankyou to everyone who's held my hand on here for the past few months - between you, Jamie and my mum you've kept me going when I just wanted to curl up and disappear. I owe all of you big time!!
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Good for you!
#264454 - 05/20/06 02:54 AM
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jaq
Reged: 05/20/06
Posts: 47
Loc: Bournemouth, England
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Hello Blondie.
I'm glad you're feeling positive. I'm feeling so much better after coming on here and reading the posts. Nice to see a couple more brits on here too!
I'm new today so haven't been following your story and not quite sure what your appointment involved. Glad it's going to work for you. Deep breathing I can do as I'm a flautist, interesting to know how that helps, calms the spasms down perhaps?
Anyway hope to chat some more soon.
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but...what the hell....YAY IM SOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!
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YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! x 1000!!!!
I am thrilled for you!!!!!!! That's super.
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY I`m so happy for u. woooooooooooo. see i kept all my body parts crossed, i didn`t injur myself and u are goig to get better. woooooooooooo BIG HUGS xxxxx
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I'm happy for you!
#264579 - 05/20/06 04:49 PM
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Toady
Reged: 04/06/06
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Loc: A small city, Northwestern Ontario, Canada
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That is great!! I'm glad you enjoyed your session and found some things you can work on and the progress you will see along the way! You sound like a new person!! Keep up the good work!!
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Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you've never loved before.
IBS A 20+ years, Chronic Migraines, Chiari Malformation (decompressed June 22, 2010), Brachial Neuritis, and ??? the list just keeps growing, but I'm still shiny side up!
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Thanks everyone!
Ended up having a kind of bizarre day - I was just SO tired, I mean like trembling, eyes crossed, weak exhausted kind of tired. So I wrote off the day, stayed in my PJ's and intended to grab some sleep - but the weirdest thing, I had so much positive thought bubbling around in my head I just couldn't get off!
So whilst I was too tired to do anything constructive ALL day, I only managed 20 mins light sleep. Yet weirdly I'm now more awake than all day. Still heading to bed though - trying to keep this earlier night thing going, and loads of study to do tomorrow.
I keep having all these thoughts, like "Ooh, Monday I might try going to look at some bathroom tiles and buy some toiletries", etc. Not happened in months! And I know the hypno's not started yet, and I'll still have to dose up on Immodium to carry out any of my thoughts, but it's a massive step for me to be even thinking/considering them.
I've kind of felt high for 24 hours now - really hard to describe!  But a nice problem to have...
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Sounds very good. You rest though, you've already made great progress!
Shopping for tiles should be fun! 
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YAY....
#264615 - 05/20/06 05:24 PM
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Natalie1985
Reged: 08/09/04
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Loc: UK - Leeds for uni, Merseyside for home!
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hope the positive thoughts continue....lots of them coming your way....you CAN do it!!!
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