Recent content by jh58

Thank you all very kindly for your responses. It’s been so helpful! My husbands issues are still so changeable, and today I hope to reach his doc for an appointment to schedule diagnostics and referrals, because we’ve just got to rule stuff out, hopefully. And on it goes… Thanks again and take...

Can TMS pain be excruciating? My husband has been in some degree of pain for a couple of months. The severe pain is largely episodic, and moves around from his lower back to upper back to right shoulder or and sometimes his hip. He has tried chiropractic and physical therapy, but not much...

Distraction is helpful, but truly he tends more towards escaping in his mind, with eyes closed, when the pain comes on strong. And I think the moaning is a self-soothing device as he rides it out. This is a guy who suffered from cluster headaches in his 30’s, so intense pain is not new to him...

Thank you so kindly for responding, and I’m sorry to learn of your history with pain however it’s helped you at least to provide me with your insight, so there’s that! My husband does ask for help with things he can’t currently manage comfortably: arranging pillows around him or behind his...

Thank you so much for your helpful reply! I just requested Alan’s book from the library. Another question: should I be indulging my husband’s pain attacks? That is, waiting on him, babying him? I feel like making myself scarce can sometimes be more helpful. Thoughts, anyone? Thx

Hello I’m supporting my husband who is a few months into a chronic pain syndrome. The last 4 weeks have been spasms and soreness in his back, upper and lower, neck and sometimes arms. Moves around. Classic TMS. He now takes about 100mg of tramadol a day, plus one or two tablets of flexeril...