Recent content by happygal

Hi all, Some of you know I have been hanging around this forum for the last several years - I usually disappear when my symptoms get better and return when something new starts to plague me. Well, anyway, here I am again. Several days ago I started having very localized chest pain in the bottom...

Hi Pilatesgirl, I am rereading Hope and Help now for my myriad of stress symptoms and just reread how soreness and pain are the result of muscular strain brought on by tension. Specifically, she talks about chest pain and scalp pain - but it must surely extend to all muscles. Worry will only...

I went through a time in my life with intense stomach pain and bloating. Nothing wrong. All TMS. Interestingly, it was either one or the other at any time - either had the pain or the bloating. Never both at the same time. Each one seemed to be enough to cause me to obsess about it. As I found a...

I have had it all down there - pain, burning, uncontrollable itching, numbness - you name it. It all started in my first pregnancy. I consider myself healed as far as that pain is concerned - my TMS has shown up in other places now, where I have not yet been able to overcome my fear. I do have...

Just to add to the evidence - my sister was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and healed after discovering Dr. Sarno. She used to ask her husband to yell at her, "It's all in your head!" (I am guessing that was therapeutic for both her and her husband!) A few years later, I developed all of the same...

Hi Pilatesgirl, Oh, can I relate to the horrible doctors in regard to vulvodynia. I think I saw 8 - maybe 9 - of them before I self-diagnosed over the internet. But, to give you hope, I have completely recovered. Now my TMS symptoms are just other things! For me, I am certain that my vulvodynia...

Hi Mala, I am so sorry you are going through so much. One thing to consider: are you trying to do anything that you enjoy simply because you enjoy it in spite of the pain? I could be wrong, but from reading your post, I feel like you are working really hard to ignore the pain, which, in a very...

Hi Mala, I usually don't know what is the specific origin of the cause of my pain. I have been dealing with intermittent pain and TMS symptoms since my early teens so going on 30 years now and am sure that there have been a myriad of reasons at different times. I think that nowadays, it often...

Just wanted to be empathetic - after 2 years of being pain-free, I am climbing my way out of a lousy TMS relapse that started a few months ago and which was super-sneaky by introducing new symptoms I never had before. But like Paul said, we all falter and I have realized that much of my life is...

I had a period in my life about 10 years ago where I got a lot of migraines. They mysteriously subsided as mysteriously as they came on. Looking back, I think it was all TMS. It was a super-stressful time. I still now occasionally get a whopper of a headache. I had one this morning actually. I...

I am dealing with plantar fascitis among other things- but only in the mornings. I am convinced it is some type of TMS because sometimes I wake up at 5 AM in the morning to go to the bathroom and after the fact, I realize that my feet have felt totally fine, only to awake for the day 2 hours...

So, I have known on a superficial level for a long time that while my relationship with my mother is very close, it is not healthy and I have joked about us being codependent for ages. Last night, I started reading a book on codependency, "From Bondage to Bonding" by Nancy Groom, and realized...

Is daily morning stiffness TMS? I have had it for years - to varying degrees - sometimes really badly and other times quite mild. No matter how badly I start out in the morning, though, it usually wears off quite quickly - just need 15 or 20 minutes of moving around to get going and usually a...