Recent content by amarie133

Happy to report life is back to normal and I am 100% healed. The road to success was not an easy, but I want to encourage all my fellow TMSers to NOT GIVE UP. What I have learned from this journey has made me happier, wiser and more at peace with the challenges that come in life. In February...

Hi Felipe and @Ithurts, This is a post I did in August. Thought it might help you. I have little flare ups here and there but returned to work doing massage therapy 2 weeks ago. 4.5 hours of massage the first week, only the first massage hurt my arm, but the rest of the week, the tools I've...

BTW, I wasn't able to see a TMS physician where I live. Even the first psychologist I went to didn't really believe me when I told him I thought the pain in my arms were due to my emotional suffering. He kept focusing on the physical. It was incredibly hard for me to erase this from my mind...

Hey Benny! Good luck at your appointment tomorrow! When I started challenging my pain, my fear and anxiety skyrocketed! It was so hard to meditate or calm myself. So I just let the fear be there and still moved myself forward. I was diagnosed with tendonosis/itis of my thumb and forearm...

My progress has been great! I gave 3.5 hours of pain free massage last week. When just weeks before I would be in significant pain moving my thumb or extending my forearm. This week I've done 2 hours with some sensation in my arm that is borderline pain.... Then I get caught in the cycle of...

Welcome to TMS! I've had a history of some chronic pains too in my mid 20's--medically unexplainable throat pain 2 years and shoulder/ankle/wrist pain 8 months. I was obsessed about it too, searching for a diagnosis and answers for why I was in pain. Looking back at it, TMS was the obvious...

Meditation begins to quiet the mind, and over time will help you to be able to recognize when you start thinking about the pain, which can perpetuate the pain. Many of us with TMS think about pain a lot! It becomes a way to distract from our repressed emotions, anger, fear, anxiety, etc...

Honestly Samuel, I wasn't 100% confident either, I waivered back and forth for about 4 months if this was TMS. There were points I was convinced it was TMS then I would challenge it and do some activity which would cause pain, doubt, fear anxiety and more pain. Last week when I went back to...

Yeah Riv44, my dr. and pt diagnosed me with forearm and thumb tendonitis/osis. So I had this picture in my head that my tendons were frayed, aged and degenerated. The affirmations and visualizations were a crucial part in erasing this from my mind. "My tendons are healthy and strong, my arms...

I'm a huge fan of meditation Jan... I fell off my practice about 2 years ago, and not surprising things started going a bit downhill after that ;) Meditation brings awareness through quieting the mind, then we begin to see our thoughts, feelings, reactions, aversions, etc. arise. We can also...

Yeah the doctor and physical therapist... thanks Tennis Tom! Maybe I will contact them :)

Hi Samuel, I was also in a lot of doubt that my RSI, tendinitis /osis was TMS. I was working as a massage therapist when the pain started in my right forearm, so you would think injury right? I've dealt with persistent pain the last 7 months, until I finally committed to that this was TMS. I...

Hi COgirl, So 4.5 hours of massage this week and I am completely pain free. It was incredibly scary to do that initial massage but I told myself this is TMS and it cannot hurt me. And it didn't!! I feel so much more free and courageous. Approaching patients about Mind/Body symptoms is tricky...

Thank u charcol. I have learned to trust in myself and infinite courage amongst many other things. Thanks for the reminder this is a blessing :)