Success with Trauma Release Exercises

[johnnyblotter]

I'm very happy to report that since I've started to do TRE, I've had a pretty drastic reduction in symptoms. It's hard for me to pin it 100% to TRE as I have been putting in sustained effort on meditation, yoga, internal therapy, etc for many, many months, but I really do think it helped me to clear something from my brain that was causing stagnation.

Many months ago I would post here with overly optimistic reports and I don't want to do that again. I don't expect to be finished with this ordeal anytime in the very near future, but after about 10 days of very mild symptoms, I'm prepared to say that for me, TRE so far seems incredibly useful as part of a multimodal approach to treatment.

I took an hour and half class with a guy in NY who is certified to teach it.

I've done so much in the way of yoga/stretching/restorative exercise and had a toolkit of some 25-30 exercises I was doing. However this was still different. The basic idea is to do stretches that are taxing to your thighs and calves. Not too taxing, but somewhere at about a 7 out of 10. You do a series of seven stretches that take about 20 minutes. After you're done you lay on your back with your legs in a sort of butterfly position and the legs will basically start to shake on their own. You give them a bit of encouragement but they'll want to just start shaking. There are many examples of this online. You do the shaking for about 15-20 minutes.

What is different about this? First, the warm up exercises are things like standing on one leg and pushing your body up with your calf while standing up against a wall, or leaning to one side with your knees bent while deep breathing. It uses gravity in a way where your body weight sort of pushes through the pelvic floor and tires out the legs. The effect of the shaking, for me, is that I have a distinct sense that the prostatitis is much less present in my brain. The physical symptoms are still there, but the TRE helps to weaken the lock that my brain has as far as being stuck in a feedback loop of discomfort.

I am reasonably convinced that my many, many hours of meditation and physical therapy have been helpful, but adding the TRE seemed to just turn a switch in my brain. Daniel Berceli is the guy's name. He has a book which I haven't read, but that might be a good place to start. I'd be happy to share some of the exercises as well if anyone was interested. I'm sure there are more advanced components but the basic practice is fairly simple.

[dailysuffering]

Great to hear johnny!!! Thanks for sharing with us

[davyboy]

Chiming in. Still doing TRE now every morning before work. The effect on my general mood has been amazing. I'm less hypervigilant and more at ease than I've ever felt. Meditation never achieved this level of 'chillness'. It's great. I'm sleeping through the night for the first time in my life too. I highly recommend. Buy David Bercelli's video 'Shake it off naturally'.

[dailysuffering]

Thanks for sharing davy, definitely going to try this out.

[jaumeb]

Thanks for your posts davyboy.

[dailysuffering]

Hey I know you jaumeb! Hope we can escape this living hell brother.

[johnnyblotter]

I'm still struggling. I do get some good improvements using the TRE, but the one symptom that has been bothering me for two years now (awkward, uncomfortable tension in the back of the rectum) just won't give up.

I'm debating getting a cystoscopy. A uro I went to strongly suggested I do it based on my history of 3 prior stricture surgeries. What is confusing is that I don't really have any problems urinating, so why would I have a stricture? When I told him I didn't have trouble urinating, he said "I've been suprised before".

My P.T. isn't a fan of traumatizing that area unnecessarily but I am wondering if there could be some type of urethral irritation without actually causing urinary problems. Could it be possible for the urethra to close up a bit and cause discomfort, but not create pain or urinary problems?

It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense, but at the same time there's a feeling that something's just stuck together in the back of the rectum, and I wonder if it would make sense to go through with it just to rule that out.

This guy did the cyto's about 10 or 15 times to me in my early 20's and I hated it, and it was a very traumatic time overall, so of course I hate the idea of it, but I'm thinking about it anyway. He did offer to do with anasthesia.

Webslave, do you think this would be a good idea?

[webslave]

Only if it's a flexible cysto (much narrower than the rigid kind, less trauma). Also, a sigmoidoscopy would be good if the insurance will pay, just to rule out any rectal/colonic causes.

[dailysuffering]

Good luck johnny I'd definitely try the cysto out

[rjdemarx]

Fellas,

I tried the TRE release technique for the past 2 nights and it really worked. I am amazed at how my legs and body actually experienced the tremors just like in the video. I felt extremely relaxed afterward and slept great.

TRE overview here:

This link the Dr. describes step by step how to do it. This is the best link on youtube for how to actually do the technique.

[ChgoGuy]

Sounds interesting. I may try this out myself tomorrow. The only thing about it, is that it seems very easy to find certain muscles cramping up. Did you experience that at all, or at feel like any cramping in the thigh or calve muscles was possible? Any other info would be welcomed.

[NeoKortex88]

@rjdemarx still success with it?

[NeoKortex88]

I don’t know if I should consciously fatigue my muscles when they are already tight

[Kylemccormick61583]

This is an interesting thing.... I actually had this phenomenon happen after walking a mile today, took a bath, started stretching. As I was doing this exercise where I basically lie on my back knees up and open and close one leg at a time for 30 reps. I was resting and this phenomenon happened. I just let my body do its thing. Shook for a long time. I don't know if its good or bad but def felt relaxed afterwards.

[NeoKortex88]

i tried it today and i shook a bit. Not sure. I have to try more often i guess.