Recent content by AlexandraJ99

I am trying to understand how one differentiates between "pain" symptoms of TMS versus "immune" symptoms in terms of getting over the symptoms. I knew how to think about my pain symptoms, the self-talk etc. and "doing the work" of journaling and feeling my feelings for the first time in life. If...

Thank you for such a detailed response. I have been reading the references you suggested and found this, " The conditioned immune response (CIR) is a form of Pavlovian conditioning wherein a sensory (for example, taste) stimulus, when paired with an immunomodulatory agent, evokes aversive...

Can you please elaborate on, "the immune response can be conditioned, like pain"? I found this post because I have been dealing with a Demodex mite overgrowth (rosacea) for the past several years. I have been treating it and can't seem to completely beat it, i.e. kill the mites 100%. I have been...

Yes I definitely get the impression that is happening. I am weirdly proud of myself to be able to now identity some feelings that I didn’t realize I was having before. Some of this feels like misplaced fear though. Like my brain is searching desperately for something to be afraid of and then...

Hi all, I have been on the TMS bus for several years now and finally succumbed to working with a TMS therapist 6/8 weeks ago after avoiding for so long wanting to deal with some of the BIG feelings I've been avoiding. I have been uncovering issues from a traumatic childhood and its been very...

I just took the quiz and not surprisingly I have ACE’s. How is doing the emotional work from a chronic pains lens different than say, just going to therapy? I am genuinely curious. Over the years I have gone to therapy and done intensive journaling where everything gets dredged up and I...

Thank you for providing all of these resources. Somehow I forgot to mention I also joined briefly Dan Buglio’s Pain Free You group coaching program and religiously watched his daily videos for about 6 months. That in conjunction with the graded exposure exercises my PT gave me were what helped...

My first TMS experience developed after the covid vaccine. I had a vaccine related injury that turned chronic due to my fear around the injury. I had a whole host of issues post-vaccine, which all resolved over time, with the exception of my hand pain and stiffness. I had endless doctors visits...

Hi All, I am a TMS success story, having recovered from chronic hand pain and stiffness that I had suffered from for years. I have been recovered for a year. Recently, I also recovered from some facial pain that had developed due to my fear surrounding rosacea (which have since treated and...

Hi Jan, thank you! Yes I am back but happily solved my original issues with TMS work :) I think my fixation on a problem has led me back here though. Interestingly, when this all first started a little over a year ago at this point I was in such a happy place with the birth of my second...

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Hi guys! After my second daughter was born I developed rosacea and after a long period of time a doctor helped me figure out the root cause and I have been treating the cause (overgrowth of demodex mites) which has led to a decrease in symptoms. The burning/flushing decreased dramatically and...