Recent content by Huckleberry

Sorry to hear this. He seemed a lovely chap and helped so many on here with his insights and thoughtful comments.

Not really. Somatization/conversion disorder are recognised by the medical community whilst TMS is at best viewed with scepticism. I think the crucial thing is the Freudian psychological theory of causality that Sarno saw as a defining factor of TMS. Many of Sarno’s TMS theories were actually...

This has been the pattern of my back/leg pain for the last 8 years or so. I’m not saying that what you are experiencing is not extinction bursts of course but just that this pattern is more like a standard presentation for me. I do have a structural issue which may or may not be generating...

I’m sure I read somewhere recently that Lorimer Moseley is currently suffering chronic pain.

Wasn’t the ‘hippie bullshit psychobabble’ pretty much the very charge levelled against Sarno and TMS theory?

Many apologies if this sounds over simplistic but it really is all about the narrative and secondary suffering you are adding to the pain. The fact that you are picturing the shop scenario in your minds eye is basically a negative visualisation and you are planting a seed in fertile ground that...

I think it’s a bit of a paradox. My chronic pain life is either in one of three stages. Stage one will see me relatively pain free. During this period I will sort of forget about pain and TMS and just live my life the way I’ve been been living for the past 50 years. The way that has probably...

Just to add to my post. Do I think PF is TMS? I’m not sure. Whilst scans can show inflammation of the tendon insertion I bet the vast majority of people over 20 would have this and would probably be pain free. IMO it is the TMS mindset that you can bring to this that is crucial. Whilst foot...

I’ve had phases of PF on and off over the last few years. I saw a podiatrist who DX’ed PF via ultrasound and who recommended various calf stretches and foot rolling exercises. Along with most of my complaints and issues my PF never really seemed to fit a traditional structural explanation to...

Thanks for the reply Andy...some food for thought there.

Thanks for the reply Plum. :) I think there is also an element of habit at play...it’s like the go to default response to pretty much everything for me. It’s got to the point that almost any action or comment made to me is interpreted negatively and then the anger kicks in. I’m trying to...

Does anyone else feel that they are basically living with a daily cloud of anger hanging over their heads? I understand the connection between stress illness and anger and know how it co-exists and feeds into TMS. I think if it isn’t natural for someone in chronic pain to be angry then it is...

Excellent stuff. Remember reading over your posts as I too was plagued with GI issues for a while. Great to hear life is good. Top tip: now you’ve done your success story delete the site bookmark from your browser and forget this place ever existed.

I just say I’m not feeling too clever and leave it at that. Semi related but it only occurred to me recently that I’d got to 50 years of age before realising that generally even though people ask if you are ok etc they don’t actually care. They are only really doing it because of a) it’s a...