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Sufferer Diagnosed Yesterday But By His Stripes I Am Healed

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Hey I'm 27. I got diagnosed yesterday with ptsd. However I've been praying for healing because by his stripes we are all healed and do not have to sucum to sickness. Mostly my symptoms are physical. I have body twitching and I have a weird tickle feeling on my left upper arm and left upper leg and left side of face. I get face buzzing sensations and I thought I had als But the neuro did an exam and ruled it out. I have mental in the way I'm obsessed with checking over my body to make sure it's sumetrical and is still strong. I have other issues to but wondering if anyone has ever had similar physical symptoms?
 
Firstly a warm welcome to the forum family @brittanywillis .

I have physical symptoms as well, they are basically trauma body memories, my main physical body memory involves the back of my head from when I was beaten as a little boy.
 
Hi Brittany,
Welcome to the forum.
You've found a safe place where lots of the people who are walking the same long path that you have just begun, come to.

It is a long path, and hard work too. Sometimes it can be difficult to see progress. That's where the support of guys here comes in. They get it, even when others don't.

Welcome to the journey to healing.
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God Will Save Me

A terrible storm came into a town and local officials sent out an emergency warning that the riverbanks would soon overflow and flood the nearby homes. They ordered everyone in the town to evacuate immediately.

A faithful Christian man heard the warning and decided to stay, saying to himself, “I will trust God and if I am in danger, then God will send a divine miracle to save me.”

The neighbors came by his house and said to him, “We’re leaving and there is room for you in our car, please come with us!” But the man declined. “I have faith that God will save me.”

As the man stood on his porch watching the water rise up the steps, a man in a canoe paddled by and called to him, “Hurry and come into my canoe, the waters are rising quickly!” But the man again said, “No thanks, God will save me.”

The floodwaters rose higher pouring water into his living room and the man had to retreat to the second floor. A police motorboat came by and saw him at the window. “We will come up and rescue you!” they shouted. But the man refused, waving them off saying, “Use your time to save someone else! I have faith that God will save me!”

The flood waters rose higher and higher and the man had to climb up to his rooftop.

A helicopter spotted him and dropped a rope ladder. A rescue officer came down the ladder and pleaded with the man, "Grab my hand and I will pull you up!" But the man STILL refused, folding his arms tightly to his body. “No thank you! God will save me!”

Shortly after, the house broke up and the floodwaters swept the man away and he drowned.

When in Heaven, the man stood before God and asked, “I put all of my faith in You. Why didn’t You come and save me?”

And God said, “Son, I sent you a warning. I sent you a car. I sent you a canoe. I sent you a motorboat. I sent you a helicopter. What more were you looking for?”



The point I am trying to make is don't wait for a miraculous recovery. God has sent you a doctor and to this forum now use these things wisely.
 
@brittanywillis, many of us had no symptoms for many years. Then one day it all comes crashing down on us; that's part of the curse of PTSD.:sour: We can then feel good for maybe even 10-15 years (if we are lucky) until something triggers us really badly and we "lose it" again. I wish there was a cure, but the best we can hope for is a way to stabilize and learn to control the symptoms.:O_o: With that being said, welcome and I hope you find what you are looking for. :geek:
 
Welcome to the forums.

In addition to the straight up physical PTSD symptoms (anxiety/panic attacks... Which is one of the things it sounds like you're describing... Etc.), I have a few trauma-quirks.

Case in point, I really, really love my fingers. I usually take some time every day just to be grateful for them... Whilst writing, drying my hair, cooking, working with power tools, flipping someone off, smoking, reaching in my pockets. There are a few other body parts as well that I have trauma-stuff with. In my fingers, it's because while some of them were broken / dislocated/ etc... But unlike some, I still have them all. I could just as easily have 9 or None or halfsies. :D It's awesome. But that also comes from a really dark time in my life. I also hate them, sometimes, because my hands are ugly. Shrug. It could be worse. The whole thing is complicated. Are my finger & hand things PTSD-related? Not exactly. Most people with PTSD won't have anything to do with their fingers. But it's trauma-related. And most people with PTSD, in my experience & observation, do have some trauma related quirks. So it's fairly par for course.

So some of my physical things will be PTSD-stuff, & some will be Trauma-stuff, and some will be coMorbid-Stuff... And then there general health related. Nothing like keeping things simple! Snort. Also nothing like thinking I'm heading into a bad run! only to find everyone else suddenly flattened. Oh. Cold & flu season. I'm shaking and dizzy and exhausted because I'm sick sick. Good to know! Similarly, I like to rule out medical causes for things, first. That does help simplify. :) But there are also simply some things that are the gift of the survivor.

As with the others, strong proponent here of 'Trust in God and do something!"
 
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