Recent content by ladyofthelake

The best advice I can give you to say that yes, sciatica and piriformis are absolutely TMS. After truly believing that you have TMS and knowing other people have recovered from what you are experiencing just stop thinking about anything related any other name (piriformis) for your TMS...

I used psychotherapy to deal with emotions/trauma/anxiety/work on boundaries. The therapy was not TMS or pain focused. I went in telling her confidently that my pain is emotional. I’ve treated short recurrences of pain as helpful clues something emotional is going on. I’m guessing that’s the...

Hey I finally typed out my success story and posted it. http://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threads/success-story-8-years-sciatica-pain-gone-overdue-story.20437/ (Success Story-8 years Sciatica pain gone. Overdue Story!)

Age: 44 Pain first started: 2008 Diagnoses received: sciatica, piriformis syndrome, gluten intolerance, anxiety, PTSD MRI's or tests taken: Normal Lower Back X-ray, Normal gallbladder ultrasound. Time to recovery from first hearing about TMS: About a year Any relapses: More like a false start...

Yes, these are my exact thoughts! Both these terms are so ever present with entirely different and unhelpful ways.

I personally think psychosomatic pain is a mighty fine descriptor but people are very defensive. I like TMS too, Sarno was clearly trying to find the perfect way to describe the pain and the source of the pain and I have so much respect for that. I don't like anything related to "stress" or...

I found that I was not able to get out of pain if I continued to entertain any hint of "physical" causes for my pain. Even a sliver of distraction into the physical cause/cure would fuel the pain.

I avoided gluten for many year because abdominal pain. It "worked." But when I had success with another type of chronic pain using the info here I started to think the gluten intolerance might be TMS. Yep! I now have a much less restricted diet and have started baking bread as a hobby!

Steps? I don't think that just because many people find writing helpful that writing per se has to be an essential "step." I'm not a strong writer, it is a struggle for me. Therefore journaling isn't an important healing activity for me. BUT I consider myself a TMS success. Keep exploring this...

Ok, I'll work on another solution after work. Thanks!

I was trying on my computer. I did what you said and it seems like it might work but now it’s saying the file is too big.

WAIT WAIT WAIT! Can somebody tell me how to load a m4a recording here? I was so close to ACTUALLY sharing my success story and now this. Here is what I wrote to accompany my audio recording, a preview if you will.... I'm attaching a audio recording fro March of 2018 about my TMS success story...

Absolutely wonderful! And relatable.