Recent content by JohnDB

I read it with great interest! Think I'll re-read it!

Thank you so much for your thoughtful words Cactusflower. I will rethink what I understood to be 'current' stressors. You are right about the stress that I generate. The incessant and often excruciating pain coming from dystonic muscle spams in the left hand, frequently puts me on my knees in...

The last few days in the SEP have focused on current stresses in my life. I find it hard to respond since, apart from the enormous stress of relentless pain and the list of 'can't do's' that ensue, I don't have anything or anyone causing me stress! I'm just about fully retired but enjoy the...

I sympathise and I empathise with you Satori. It's been an awfully long time for me too. Most of my life and I'm 71. I am glad that I found this programme, and I am learning a lot working through it. Ellen's advice and encoragement strikes me as wise. It's a viscious circle if the route to...

Totally get your quandary Trojan. Doctors have said the same to me about dystonia. Do I have something called dystonia or not, and/or is it really TMS or not, or do I have both, and if I do have dystonia does the TMS route to wellness apply? I believe so. I certainly hope so! But I don't know...

So good to read this post. The personal growth before pain reduction resonates with me. I am grateful to the programme for that too. May your progress continue unabated Ludwig!

Not to worry! Some of it is in my journal. Plenty more comments to come.

v good. There may be some lag? I have posted after every day - up to day 8 now. But not sure if I had to be logged in.

Thank you Jan. I know what you mean about posting hesitancy! I just can't find the posts. Maybe they are on subsequent pages, rather than the first one that comes up? BTW I think that this is a super site and a super programme. I am working my way through the days, perhaps more in hope than...

Hi. Just a question. I submit posts after completing a day on the educational programme. Where do the posts go???

Just started today. Have come across TMS after half a lifetime of pain. I'm 71. I was diagnosed with focal hand dystonia 25 years ago. I question this diagnosis now although I have suffered and do suffer with muscle spams in the arms and hands. I gritted my teeth and lived with it - fairly well...

I'm pleased to see someone else, like me, just starting the programme in March 2022. Coincidently, Sean, I too have serious pain issues in my hands and wrists. Finally, I am taking the symptoms head on after a lifetime of just living with them. I look forward to completing the programme, and...