Recent content by Sarah79

There’s so many generous and helpful comments in all your replies, thank you so much. I'm including a photo of me and my dog; this space feels safe, and I know those who've commented about their own dogs will understand. Yes, @Diana-M, life feels too heavy; I'm trying to find some sense of...

So, after a while of having hand and wrist pain and weakness, alternating between the left and right sides, I went to Norway last week. And for the entire week.....nothing. Not a flicker. I gripped the stair rails on a whale watching boat to stop myself from sliding over in the ice - nothing. I...

Your daily reminders are pure gold, Diana, thank you

This comment, about how the TMS brain loves scanning the body every day to check, rings so true for me. This morning, I was pleased not to have any hand / arm pain for 90 minutes, and I know this precise fact because when it started to feel weak and grumpy, I checked the clock…

Thank you; there’s much for me to do. One thing you asked in your prior post was how do I get relief for myself? I live in the UK, and once a year, I drive 500 miles to the very northwest of Scotland, a place called Sutherland. It’s almost unpopulated, and I hire a place where I stay, with my...

Hi @Cactusflower, thanks again for your wonderful, encouraging and insightful reply. I've joined Fagan's programme. £42 a month for a few months to go through the work and get into my body is a small price to pay, much smaller than all the fatigue and anxiety and grimness I'm currently up to my...

Wow, @Diana-M, you brought me to tears with your perception and understanding. The themes between us are the same, I'm sure. I do feel trapped, from morning to the time I go to bed, at which point I am not averse to taking a sleeping pill (numbing) to get away from it all. I can be irritable...

Hi @Cactusflower, and thanks for your compassionate, helpful reply. Just to note - the daughter mentioned isn't mine; she's my partner's, and has no contact with her actual mother, so I have moved into a quasi-maternal role with her. Seeing her off at the weekend was very emotional for me, and...

Hi Folks, I'm writing with a slightly fatigued state of mind, and I'm not after any specific answers - but if you're minded to chime in with any observations, I would be grateful. I've got a history of TMS, most notably about nine years ago when a terrible foot pain struck my right foot while...

I'm watching this thread with interest, as I've just recently 'talked myself out of,' a bout of plantar fasciitis, after an eight month struggle with weird foot and ankle pain that started after a simple dog walk - and here I must disclose that I am a dog walker, so I wasn't exactly jumping out...

May I suggest that your attention to the pain is part of the problem? I had terrible right foot problems about a decade ago, which went when I had an MRI that showed the foot was normal. In March this year, I injured my foot very lightly while out walking a friend's dog and I've spent most of...

I was last here a few years ago with foot pain problems which went away after an MRI showed that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the foot. It was my right foot and despite everything being fine for many years, I've always had a 'watchful' sense of it, the big toe in particular. I work...