Recent content by Sarah Jacoba

I've tried at least two medications. one made my face hurt in a nasty way, like pain around my eyes. the other one did nothing, bad or good. hesitant to keep trying meds....but then again suicide is nasty

after years of dealing with and getting over various chronic pain problems, I have a theory why urinary urgency is the worst of all of them, ....and why my brain has settled on this symptom to perpetuate my TMS crisis. because you HAVE to interact with the physical symptom. you can't ignore it...

here's my problem with the idea of outcome independence....or just about any other positive idea in dealing with TMS... I want to stop caring about the pain, the outcome, because caring about it and trying to "fix" it just seems to enhance the symptoms. But when I read Alan Gordon's posts, it...

The problem I have (and I'm sure many of you have) is that life events generate new real traumas that then TMS piggybacks on. I can't avoid having a car accident, or kidney stones. I have successfully resolved multiple TMS flare ups, but then something new comes along for TMS brain to co-opt...

Thanks Fred. I was looking at your book just the other day! (I've had it for a long time) was the concussion before or after the book experience?

Steve, I appreciate your replying, but I dont feel like youre listening to my dilemma. You're assuming I have TMS in this situation. I sustained a real injury (hitting my head on concrete) Feb. 3. The point is that it is very scary to just ignore and push through symptoms in the wake of an...

Looking for encouragement or advice. I've been digging into treating my "post concussive syndrome" as TMS (4 months post concussion). For me that has been getting back into yard work, playing drums, spending lots of time on screen, exercising harder. But after 4 days of pretty aggressive "I...

can you lay out for me all the symptoms you had post concussion, and how long they took to fade with the TMS approach once you applied it? I know from above they included photo sensitivity, and that you had some reoccurrences that made you doubt.... currently I have some mild lightheaded /...

what is tough in this situation is I did have an actual injury (staples in my scalp are proof of that). I think I may have true lingering concussion symptoms, like a slight sense of dizziness. but what's interesting is that dizziness doesnt by itself cause me pain or ruin my days. just makes...

thanks for writing me back so fast, very encouraging to know that you are heard, and this is an active dialogue of people helping each other!!

would love to know how Anna1 is doing now, since I'm 2.5 months out from a concussion and now having the same wrangling about TMS vs. not. I'm fine with lingering "real" concussion symptoms, which I suspect are at the very least dizziness/lightheadedness and weird dreams/insomnia. But the...