Recent content by julesmck

Thanks so much, Jo. The problem is that we've already tried to remove all the triggers (toxic family members, friends, etc.) but as a result, our world keeps contracting and getting smaller and smaller. It seems we can never remove all the stressors and triggers. Because there's our son to...

Thank you both so much for the time you've taken to reply to my post. I really appreciate it. Whenever my husband is asked to deal with any troublesome issue he completely shuts down and says my wanting to discuss something is like I've taken an icepick to his head. That is, he completely wants...

Is your physical body always reacting to something current (relationship, current stressors) or can the physical body's reaction have little to do with what's going on currently?

Thanks to all. This is day 2 of my husband trying to implement some of the techniques he's read about in relation to TMS (i.e., going over past pain triggers, trying to guess which traumas the triggers are connected to) but it's making him extremely agitated. He's trying to process the fear and...

Thanks to all for your replies. This has been going on for 20 years. Started with tension headaches, then burning stomach pain, then groin pain, tinnitus and a host of other chronic pain symptoms in different areas. He still has them all, constantly (he's had a headache for 20 years) and as time...

Hi, my husband has severe chronic pain in various parts of his body, but nerve blocks have been effective in the past, especially in the pelvic and stomach regions. Is this evidence that he does not have TMS? That is, can nerve blocks work even if the source of pain is not structural? Thanks.