Recent content by Mara

Hi She, I just got an email from my doctor that the urine culture (the one they sent out to the lab) came back as normal. (Although the quickie strip test they did on Saturday made them diagnose me with a UTI.) The dr said just hydrate now and no need for more antibiotics. I'm glad to hear...

Thanks LL. The doctor's instructions said to call back if the symptoms don't get better in a week. So, I am only on day three of that "week" and will just relax for the next few days, then see how things are on Saturday morning and decide what to do. Thanks for the advice. I want to strike a...

Oh, that's interesting! Okay, I will just stop thinking about this for a while. And it's not like I'm not following the doctor's advice--I took the antibiotics for three days and the dosage is finished. Now I'm just going to let things settle down and not keep mentally monitoring symptoms. And...

Good article. I was just posting on another board about how I think working all by myself from home made me feel disconnected and lonely. I think these feelings were a breeding ground for TMS, which was later triggered by "whiplash" from a minor car accident. I still work from home, but my...

Joseph, I wonder if quitting the part-time job eliminated some socializing or sense of routine that was beneficial? If so, is there a way to replace that with other activities or hobbies? The reason I ask is that I went from working in an office with others to working at home alone, and while I...

I had a couple neck/shoulder pain relapses during the time between "discovering" TMS and being pain free. What helped me was not paying too much attention to the pain, but saying, "Oh, that's just my TMS" and going about my business as if it weren't there. (Fortunately, it wasn't debilitating...

Background: By realizing that my neck/shoulder pain after a minor car accident was really TMS (confirmed by a TMS dr.), and working on the issues from a TMS angle, I now have no pain at all in my neck or upper shoulder. However, I recently had symptoms of a Urinary Tract Infection, and went to...

The above could apply to me, except my art was creative writing, which I stopped doing for months because I was afraid sitting too long would make my neck pain worse. Now I sit at the computer and write for hours, and you know what? During the creative process, I don't notice my neck at all...

Hi Bill, it is not mystical or new age; there is a lot of neurological research in the past ten years or so about how our brain experiences emotion and pain in the same areas. (I am grossly simplifying this, but you get the idea.) I have neck and upper trapezius pain too, which started after a...

Enough said. So true! I struggle with this. I am very black and white, and either grab onto something like a dog devouring a shoe, or I don't do it all. It's like I am either a perfectionist or a procrastinator, no middle ground.

I do think I am getting better about standing up for myself and asking for what I want. For example, when my husband sat next to me with a big huge bowl of cereal and started munching away (while he knows I am trying to do low-carb, but he can eat anything because he is tall and slim with a high...

Ha, that is funny, my husband also did not hear my call. (His phone was on, but he didn't hear it.)

On my list of stressful events to journal about is the car accident itself, which eventually led to the pain that eventually became TMS. The accident is what I tackled in my journal today. I already knew I still carried anger about the accident, especially towards the person who rear ended me (I...