Recent content by Birdie

Hi sunshyne, I guess nearly everything can be TMS-related. Never the less some people might react to the darker times of the years stronger than other people. Using a light box in the winter months for about half an hour every day in the morning would be worth a try (10.000 lux are recommended)...

Hi Annie, I have a friend who reduced her MS symptoms with a TMS approach about 90 %. Her MS started in a high stress period. When she begun to eliminate stress her MS improved dramatically. She now does not need any medication. Of course everyone is special, but I guess stress/childhood trauma...

Hi Tennis Tom, that's a good question. I am not on a special diet. I don't tolerate heat very well, so I avoided the sun over years (I am a vampire!) and that's probably why I became vit d3 defient. There's also lacking something in my intestine so that I can't digest vitamin B12 and have to...

Hi WendyS, of course severe defiencies in minerals/vitamins can worsen all kind of conditions. I too was very defient in B12 and other B-vitamins, iron, Vitamin D3 (was so low that it gave me osteoporosis with fractures), magnesium and other minerals. But: TMS can use all kind of conditions...

Hi Bunneh, I really understand what you're going through! I experienced and still experience most of the symptoms you have. I was also tested positive for the RH factor and for ANA (some kind of antibodies that indicate autoimmune disease, in my case they showed the typical fluorescence pattern...

Hi Steve, I have muscle/joint pain, too. And my ANA titer is 1:160! Was told by the rheumatologist that it's pretty normal, no Lupus, no autoimmun disorder. ANA occur even in healthy populations and in "fibromyalgia" which is TMS! But I absolutely understand your panic as I went though the same...

Ellen, are you affected by depression? Because sleep deprivation helps with depression! Depressed people have too much and disturbed dreem sleep. That's why, in some clinics, they keep people awake for some nights. I definitely know what you mean with the symptom imperative. The focus is much...

I agree....tappering off during times of increased stress doesn't seem like a good idea (although I can really understand that you'd prefer to be without meds). I tappered off my medication when I thought I was emotionally stable and it put me on a rollercoaster for about one year. Don't want to...

Wow....since I started to fret less about insomnia and possible consequences like exhaustion and so on, I started to have tendon pain/ stiffness in my elbow again. This was a huge TMS symptom some time ago when my elbow became totally "frozen" and I was unable to bend it. It still is not as...

Ohhhh, all the evil chairs out there! I can totally relate to this! About 3,5 years I was only able to sit on special chairs. They had to have a very soft seating surface, because always when I was sitting on a hard surface me sitting bones and the pelvis area between begun to hurt badly. Beside...

Walt, that's great! That's also what sleep experts recommend: only go to bed and switch off the lights if you are really, really tired. The following sleep will be deeper and more restful. TennisTom: thank you, haha, it's funny to hear that. My English always was very bad to the point I nearly...

Tennis Tom, you're right: getting 4 hours of sleep, then lying awake or doing something and going back to sleep for another few hours would just be fine. Would not complain about that if I was able to sleep like that! But sleeping for 2-4 hours and then being NOT able to get back to sleep is not...

Oh my....the elbow-thing. After a minor "overuse" I came down with severe pain in my right elbow on the outside (the classic "tennis elbow"). But not enough...after a few weeks the pain shifted to the inner side of the elbow. I now was the prod owner of both, a tennis and a golfers elbow, haha...

Walt, that's right: waiting until you're really dog-tired can improve your ability to fall asleep tremendously. I love to read a good book in bed to distract my mind and turn off the lights only when I am ready to sleep. As mentioned before it's more a problem for me to stay alseep. Once awake...