Recent content by JDSR71

Thank you all so much for your sound advice. I can't express how much I appreciate your thoughts. Getting rid of my fear/anxiety is crucial. Knowing it's MBS gives me some solace by knowing that I can help myself get out of pain. However, knowing that it's MBS gets me only so far. Is there a...

miffybunny, that's very helpful and makes sense. It also makes sense that when having so many different symptoms it must be one source rather than many different problems - for me that seems to be fear and anxiety driving the pain. When convinced it's a mind-body disorder, what should I...

miffybunny, thank you very much for your reply. I often read people describe their "aha!" moment when they realized that it must be a mind-body disorder. For some reason I just can't get there. I've made a rule-in/rule-out sheet but it hasn't persuaded me. Again, my pain is so instinctually...

I’m new to this Support Forum. I hope someone can give me some helpful advice as I'm desperate for relief from my pain. About 5 years ago I pushed my clothes dryer a few inches when I felt a < 2-second painless spasm in my abdominal area. Over the following week it evolved into dull...

To lower one’s central sensitization and fear, has anyone a recommendation on how best to achieve that? I’ve read about mindfulness, meditation, somatic tracking, journaling, focusing upon that it's the mind – not the body causing pain, as well as other methodologies. I’m curious if there’s...

Thank you Cactusflower and miffybunny. I very much want to believe the TMS approach as it provides an opportunity to eliminate my chronic pain. I'm a lawyer and by my nature I analyze everything I can get a hold of to make the best case I can based on where the facts lead me - taking the world...

I’ve read a lot of papers on the topic of central sensitization as I seem to have this type of pain in my pelvic area and thighs. There generally seems to be two schools of thought: 1) that persistent pain re-wires your receptor cells in a biological manner whereby more glial cells and...

Thank you so much Cactusflower, I much appreciate your sound advice! I think my biggest problem is that I’m still stuck in the body tissues model and having a lot of trouble convincing myself that it’s MBS. I suppose if all the imaging is negative for any muscle/nerve problem then what are you...

Hello everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster. I apologize for the length of this post. I’m desperate for advice and thoughts from this community. I’ve had pelvic/rectal pain off and on for many years. It had been tolerable in that I’d get remissions quite frequently where I had no...