This is an interesting thread. Thanks for starting it Rhap.

I have found for me that I do not relate to my body as far as pain. It always sits outside of me but I think it's because I don't relate to this body as my own. It's a real struggle for me to know when to go to the Dr or when to do things because if I just rely on feelings, they aren't there.

I do go to the Dr periodically because of not knowing what's going on with myself. I've been going to my Dr for about 10 years now and I think I've probably presented a lot of different sides to him while there since I rarely remember going. Because of that, maybe he's seen and taken care of things that I didn't even know I had going on. Unfortunately I don't seem to have enough awareness of that kind of thing to know if I or different parts of me have things going on.

T has said that some parts have different things going on but I don't know if it's body memory stuff or real pain/illness.

I think you all are doing well to know what goes on. Until I can get to that point, I hope that going to the Dr periodically for checks will suffice to figure out when/if anything is going on that needs to be taken care of. It's really cool to see how similar and different we all are.