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Originally Posted by madisongrrl
My symptoms came on after the most stressful year of my life. I worked with an awful person who pretty much terrorized everyone that they worked with (and this still goes on). And I had to work with this person VERY closely. Sigh...
This wasn't the cause of my SFN, but it was sure fuel for the fire....especially if my neuropathy is immune-mediated, you really have to wonder.
The one positive thing that I've learned from this disease and this whole medical experience is that there is nothing medically that will ever scare me.
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Thanks for all the replies friends. The other thing I forgot to mention is that stress raises blood sugar and mind didn't get below 100 until I learned to calm down. Tonight I'm at 95 at thee hours post meal. Before this that would have been around 120.
It may not be the magic bullet but it might come close for some of us, who knows, I'm just beginning this process at this intensity. I'm lucky to be retired as I can do this three or more times a day.
I found a great CD with several programs just made for folk like us. It's called GOODBYE WORRIES by Roberta Shapiro. This is one of the best I've found after years of searching these CDs.
There are 4 programs on the CD.
1) Hypnosis/relaxation
2)Barrier Meditation Training (how to stop negative thought loops)
3) Relaxation Meditation
4) Breath and Music meditation
All are different lengths from about 8 min to 22 min.
There are so many benefits to being relaxed and calm, it can really smooth out relationships strained by this disease. I hope it can help some of you even more than it's helped me. Or at least some. I think it will. The most difficult part is getting started of course but some results will show up quickly if you work it and the rest come along soon after. Assuming you will get them. I think it's pretty universally known that stress is a killer.