Recent content by Alexis1984

Good idea. I've got a little one but I never worried about pain with him. I'll definitely try compassion ...

Thanks for checking in :) I was doing better... just feeling confident again was huge! I'm now about 7 weeks pregnant and a little nervous, but feeding off of my confidence that my body is structurally sound and the intensity of pain is not correlated to the intensity of an injury. I've been...

Send me a PM if you ever want to just chat about the prospect/having kids with this tricky pain... I am lucky, somehow I had no anxiety with my son about anything despite having a rough pregnancy and a wild childbirth. Now I need to get back to the place where I trusted my body. I do think my...

This makes me so happy to read. All of my neurotic things floating in my mind, I'll look up on the wiki and someone is reassuringly saying that it's ok. I haven't bent forward in 2 years! I had even decided not to have a baby bc I didn't think my back could handle caring for a little one. Now...

Hi -- Well, here is something interesting. My family includes many doctors and I live in a city with two major (MAJOR) teaching hospitals in a tiny space. Basically, everyone knows a lot of doctors. It has been rare that a medical professional who I have discussed this with personally was...

My thought, as an newbie, but a mom, is that pregnancy is full of transient pain. I had weird hip pains in my pregnancy but I was so young and so happy and my TMS hasnt ever manifested as pain, so I remember laughing and telling my mom "this sucks! My hips hurt! Gotta make room for this little...

I'd like to know that too... I am an athlete. I know that stretching and conditioning muscles is good and can improve your performance. I am getting more comfortable every day that the normal degenerative changes noticed in my MRI aren't a structural problem with my body and that my pains are...

Hi Riverrat, I don't know if this will help you... But even before I discovered TMS, and before I had pain as an anxiety response, I would have debilitating anxiety attacks. There is fight/flight but there is also... faint. I would jut collapse. Probably because I am thin and I have low blood...

Hello All, I am new to this forum. I have been suffering lower back pain since January of 2015. Coincidently, this was about two weeks after my amazing father was indicted on some really horrendous charges, which he confessed to immediately. It was a debilitating shock to say the least. But I...