Because my symptoms are not back and neck pain-related, as much as TMS makes sense to me, there is still a part of me that keeps saying “What if you don’t have TMS?” and “This is something different, what if you’re never going to get better?” My most burdensome syndrome is a debilitating brain...
Things doctors said have definitely influenced my thinking and behavior around this experience. Here’s what’s stuck:
- “There’s so much we don’t know about the brain” (Me interpreting as: “ We don’t know what’s wrong with you, you’ll always be stuck.”)
- “You have general anxiety disorder...
While I don’t have back/neck issues, I have had unexplainable symptoms for the past 4+ years: mainly brain fog/severe cognitive impairment, dizziness and off-balance feelings, pressure in my throat.
It all began on 9/27/15 when I had an intense panic attack one week after my wedding. To be...