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Hi David, I strongly recommend you visit tinnitus.org and read the articles there, especially https://tinnitus.org/tinnitus/ (Tinnitus.org | Tinnitus). It's based on the research of someone named Jastreboff, who worked independently of Sarno and Claire Weekes but came to very similar...

Update: it's Day 13. I've found the journaling in the program confronting, but doable. And I've moved into a position I'm betting other people have been in, too: "not wanting to poke the bear." I've been calmer overall. The mentally unstable guy hasn't reappeared for two weeks (I actually...

I've pursued TMS in a lot of different ways. Starting the Structured Education Program, it's hard for me to say "how things are going" after a week because my pain tends to be very erratic and shifting in its presentation. I do know that delving into my past and my emotions has been very...

It sounds like this isn't quite "not TMS." Clenching your jaw muscles is absolutely muscle tension, which is driven by your nervous system. That said, problems can have functional solutions, and it sounds like you found something simple and effective that handles the problem in practice.

Thank you, this is an excellent perspective! Yes, I've noticed that if I can do a certain physical action repeatedly, and I find it comfortable, then it filters into the "mentally OK" slot and becomes no longer a potential problem. I like your approach because it acknowledges the role of...

Thank you for your comments. Yes, I think that after the period I agreed to limit walking (basically ending this Friday), I'm going to just start doing whatever feels OK. My PT is helpful and means well but I don't want to let him unwittingly pull me into a limitation/guarding cycle.

Hi Jan, I appreciate your response and I see where you're coming from. I've specifically not run to medical professionals over and over, for the reasons you describe. It's actually pretty unusual that I'm seeing a PT right now (referred by my GP). And the visit to Dr. Rashbaum et al. was a...

@Ellen absolutely, I am... but I have decisions to make in the meantime about what to do and not to do. @bobbyPT thank you so much for your detailed response. Just to give you a broader idea: I'm getting PT for a "hamstring strain," which is healing more slowly than expected over multiple...

I've been dealing with various muscular pains for 10-15 years. In the past, many of them have lasted for months. And some of them have been proven TMS; by "proven" I mean that: they persisted for months until I got a correct diagnosis of no structural problem, and then they vanished; or, in one...