• We are a multilingual website again. Read the notice about this.
  • Understand AI use at MyPTSD: all AI use is explained in our AI help page. AI use is by choice here. It exists if you want it, but does nothing unless you choose to use it.

Started Doing EMDR and Now Everything Hurts

Status
Not open for further replies.

Nessa7

Platinum Member
I've been doing EMDR since January. Things have been going pretty well. I've gotten used to the process, and I've been making progress. I have also been staying in my body more. I've had a very good last few weeks espescially.

Something strange that has been happening is that I've been noticing a lot of physical pain. It has been steadily increasing until today when I could barely make it out of bed. At first, I thought I was maybe getting sick, but I haven't had any other symptoms. I don't think I've done anything recently to injure myself and it's more of an all over feeling. I have had a lot of injuries and it doesn't seem the same.

It's confusing. In the past, I've been a little concerned about maybe not feeling enough pain. I've walked off quite a few injuries only to realize later that I needed to see a doctor. I've passed kidney stones without taking any medication or feeling any more than a little discomfort. I've even broken bones and had that only hurt when the ER wrapped it wrong and I had to wait until the next day to get a cast. It just itched occasionally. Also, feeling like my body might not actually be real is something that I've struggled with.

My doctor has been concerned about my consistently low sed rate and is planning on sending me to see a rheumatologist to see if they can come up with an explanation. Is it possible for me to have been in pain all the time and I've just been blocking it out? If it is, how am I supposed to explain that to a doctor?
 
In my experience? EMDR hurts like hell. I have days where I come home, pop a pain pill, soak in a tub and crawl into bed. If its really bad I may not even be able to function the next day. Some of it is that it exacerbates my fibro, but most of it is the pain associated with the trauma. Part of EMDR is reliving the experience -- which can also mean feeling the pain you were in then. Let your EMDR T know you what is happening - she may need to tweak the process.
And yep - totally possible to have ignored pain all this time -- it can be a form of dissociation. I think it's pretty common so ask your T for ideas on what to say to the doc...
 
This occured to me right in the middle of my little over two week gap between appointments when she's out of town, which seems to always be when I come up with questions I want to ask her.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Donation drives

2026 Donation Goal

Goal
$1,800.00
Earned
$910.00
This donation drive ends in
0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds
  50.6%

Trending content

Featured content

Back
Top Bottom