Recent content by ayalitta

Thank you, AngK for your encouraging words. I was trying to follow your advice, and it's good to come back to it, re-read and re-think. I've been truly enjoying the freedom of knowing I'm capable of doing a lot more than I thought I could do physically - running, and other activities. Gone to...

Thank you, everyone for your thoughtful and encouraging comments! These have been very difficult few months, and I still don't feel like I've even scraped the surface of what I need to deal with to overcome the pain. I've been away on a family trip (which was not a good idea, btw, but I had to...

This stiffness is what I can't get rid of either... It made me feel stuck quite early in the process, even though the sharp pain, numbness and tingling went away within 48hrs of being exposed to the concept of TMS. While I am optimistic about being able to have a pain-free life again; I...

Pain at night is something I'm awfully familiar with too. My intuition about the cause is similar to what Ellen said: stuff from the unconscious attempts to rise up, and must be pushed away by physical symptoms. Strangely enough, when I was in the beginning of my last worst ever TMS attack...

Glad the journaling about your reservations about the trip helped! The circumstances for the trip are also important. I wish I was thinking more about my own best interest before I booked my latest (and what seems to be never-ending: a 2 months affair) trip to visit my family abroad, due to 2...

Guava - I love your screen name! Like you, I found that mentally exhausting too... Even though at first I just kept repeating to myself "it's not physical, it's psychological" every time a pain would come, rather than thinking of specific reasons. This helped with my "new pain" (sciatica and...

Thank you so much for creating this forum for peer support! And thank you in advance for reading, listening and commenting... This is a bit long, so I hope you'll bear with me: I am 37 year old business owner, mother to a wonderfully lovable teen with permanent disability, whom I raise alone...