Recent content by BigBlueWolf

I will have a look at it again. And yes, I agree about the book cure. Mine was almost classic in a holy-crap-I-can't-believe-it's-working sense. I think it was that initial joy that carried my book cure for six weeks until the real emotional issues started creeping back again. Thanks for...

Thanks so much for your reply! I looked through the information about CPRS, and while I only meet one of the criteria it's clear to me that what I'm going through is heavily related or perhaps a milder form of the condition. Good information to have in my back pocket, glad to know things are...

Just wanted to give a heads up to anyone looking for a TMS doctor in the Bay Area. If you do a Google search, you might come up with this guy, Ernest Cheng, DO: eastbayspineandsports.com His site lists TMS as a specialty with references to this Wiki among other well-known TMS resources and...

I've written here before. This is kind of an update. Kind of a request for help. I first developed TMS symptoms in my hands about three years ago. It was all the common RSI symptoms that tend to be associated with carpal tunnel syndrome minus actual wrist pain. I thought I had developed this...

It's been about a month since you posted. Can you give us an update? I've not been participating on the forums for a little while. Sorry I missed your previous post. The continued problems suck, especially coming on right after a victory over your original problem. It sounds like you have a...

This is a common experience in TMS. It's the brain fighting back against your rational understanding by increasing the amount of pain in order to convince you that it is a physical problem. Remember that Sarno tells us the brain has constructed TMS as an unconscious avoidance strategy. When...

So a new wrinkle has been added to my on-going TMS battle. I have a very supportive partner for the past year who has listened to me talk about TMS and explain what it is. I've shared my symptom history with him. My version shows up predominantly in my hands and mainly as a set of neurological...

I have been involved in weight training most of my adult life (over 50 now). Injury comes with the territory. You take it easy on that body part until you can use it effectively again. But in hindsight I now know that some injuries where pain doing "that movement" persisted for years had to be...

A year sucks, yes, but for many people it proceeds slowly. I think I could progress faster if I apply myself more to journaling and so forth, but sometimes it's hard to stick with it when you just want to live life. I have seen progress, and I'm very positive that I will make a full recovery. I...

Hey BM, I came to this forum with almost the same history as you: worked as a software developer for decades, weight-lifting for even longer, major video-game player. I never had a problem with my hands until around two years ago (spring/summer 2017) after some intense couch co-op games that...

This observation I think goes to the heart of the matter. Thank you for posting! (Both to Jan and Anne as well) Yes, I do feel guilty about it. I didn't used to. There was a turning point (sometime last year) when I began to feel like it was too excessive but I kept playing a lot anyway (my...

I am in a bit of a conundrum. Back in February I found this forum while suffering from months of chronic pain in my hands that was started by overuse (lots of computer work and videogaming) and eventually morphed into TMS. Three weeks of study and I was 100% pain-free and happy to have my life...