Recent content by Shine4me

Thank you Plum for asking the question - I needed to hear both the question and the answer. I didn't know I didn't know.

Ah Ellen and Plum! Thank you so much.

Thank you Walt. Unfortunately I've lost all my books as well, so thank goodness I am able to utilize the mine of information available on this site. I am still very emotional and rather weepy, but am busy trying to furnish the apartment that we will be renting from the beginning of September...

Hello Everyone, I am starting again today. I have just been through the most traumatic experience. Our home has been completely destroyed by a fire which swept through our little town in the Western Cape destroying 200 homes including our cottage. My husband and I only managed to save our...

Hello Everyone, I am starting again today. I have just been through the most traumatic experience. Our home has been completely destroyed by a fire which swept through our little town in the Western Cape destroying 200 homes including our cottage. My husband and I only managed to save our...

Hello grateful_mama, Thank you for asking. The trip was to Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. We flew in on a light aircraft and had four idyllic nights on a houseboat with friends, just fishing, birdwatching and lazing about reading. So nice! I could get used to that life!! I had very little pain on...

Thank you so much for your response....and yes like you I too am more convinced than ever that it must be TMS. I am amazed at how my mind is always concerned about something, but I am slowly learning to think psychologically to discern what might have been the trigger.

After being almost pain free, last night everything hurt. My feet ached, my hips hurt, I was emotional and weepy and my body felt on edge and itchy achy all over. I also could not get to sleep until 3.30 ish so got up and cried and cried in the bathroom and took a handful of Meds. I don't...

Yesterday was the first day for a long time that I was able to go without anti-inflammatories. Yay! I think the breakthrough came from the journaling I've been doing. I have found it to be very emotional but cathartic. For the first time I also really believe that it is TMS and the doubts I...

Thanks EileenS