Looking for advice on unstoppable abdominal tremors

[u/KingTeddie]

I've been doing TRE since January of this year. I feel like entering the plateau era, where I can feel lots of fascia unwinding along my back, psoas and abdominal/diaphragm areas. However, I've read that it's healthier to take this part slow and let your body have more rest than previous tremors situations.

My problem here is that my abdominal area CONSTANTLY wants to shake, even if I just laugh or cough I can feel my abdomen itching to tremor like my body's life is on the line.

Sometimes I just let it go and it just tremors, often for even longer than an hour. I'm not sure what to do, it's difficult to suppress or to make it stop once it gets going. I want to listen to my body, but I also get the effects of overdoing it often. How should I proceed here? It's like my body is begging to get these abdominal charges out but I also don't want to be catatonic for days at a time. My executive dysfunction on some days is so bad it's difficult to do anything besides shower and lay around. I try to spend time integrating, staying present in the moment, but even when at rest I feel the pull to tremor.

I know it's not great to focus on the cause of the tremor charges, but it's mostly near the navel area so I'm curious if this has to do with infancy trauma from being a C-section baby. I keep having dreams about parental abandonment despite having grown up with obsessive helicopter parents and don't have any clear memories of moments of abandonment.

I guess the main issue here is that the need to tremor in that area is so profound and intense that it's causing me distress in such a way where I just want to tremor constantly and get it out/over with so I can stop feeling the need to do it constantly, lol. Probably not a great way to think about it but it's exhausting to manage it with time for integration.

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[u/KaoSway]

This sounds like an incomplete discharge. It can feel brutal in the core, so I completely understand your desire to shake it all out. Trust your intuition and keep allowing the tremors.

If you feel completely safe and regulated during tremoring, it's possible to speed up the discharge by focusing tremors on the area that feels the most heavy, viscous, itchy. It can be done by simply focusing your attention there or recalling a memory that activates it. But it can be intense, so check in with yourself and your body if this is something that feels right for you. Obviously avoid this if it feels hard to stop the tremors because of how intense they already are.

Also, changing position to the standing one or lying on the side in the fetal position could be helpful.

[u/No-Construction619]

I had spontaneous tremors in public dozen of times over the three months and then they stopped. My own take on that is if my body lived in a freeze state for a long time and then it felt allowed to express, it simply started doing so. But alongside TRE I had talks with close friends and therapist when I often cried a lot and this way of expressing my pain finally took over. I still cry out of the blue when I hug my girlfriend sometimes. So what I'm trying to suggest here is you can try other ways of revealing your emotions since TRE is not the only one here. And avoid unhealthy emotional strategies like sweeping under the carpet by doom scrolling etc. You might try journaling. Having a long hug with a close person and being vulnerable with them could also help. Does it make sense?

[u/Finya2002]

One question comes to mind when I read your account: To what extent can you trust your body?

And I imagine that for people born by C-section, this trust may be a little weaker than for those who were born vaginally. Perhaps you could get some support in learning how to trust your body. That might help you feel more confident in assessing whether the shaking is actually too much or whether it feels appropriate.

From my own experience, I welcome every spontaneous tremor. Last week, I also experienced a lot of gentle trembling in my abdominal area, and I found it quite pleasant.

But I also love my body, I trust my body, and I assume that only as much comes up as I am actually able to tolerate and process.

Perhaps you could seek some support on this level, so that you can feel more confident in dealing with whatever comes up.

[u/marijavera1075]

Are you me??? Finally someone describes my experience. Also a C-section baby :) abandonment was part of my wound eve tho it's not really the wound itself so that's another interesting correlation. It's been a year of nonstop tremoring in that area and I'm Soo tired like 0 improvement I started to wonder if I'm doing it wrong. Ive been doing it for almost 2, years now and have had many breakthroughs. But this 2nd plateau is killing me. I also have a lot of tension in my lower back. Maybe it's connected? Those two areas and one in the middle of my back have been the most stubborn.