Recent content by TMSMatt

Josh, Thanks for sharing your incredible story! I think our experiences are very important for folks on this forum to read about since numbness/lack of sensation is widely viewed as evidence of a "dead" nerve or permanent nerve damage. Clearly in our cases, that isn't so. Instead, our brains...

Hey Kevin, thanks for asking. Yes, I have improved a great deal. Really the only persistent issue is the numbness in my big toes, but even that has improved. I have tingling from time to time there, and sensation has improved to the point of being able to feel when the skin was dead before...

Thanks Jan, a great reminder to get back to basics. I agree that the state of the world, especially the last few months, probably has a lot to do with overall pain increase. My anxiety has been high during this time, and my home life has been stressful. When I look at it from an outside...

Hi, It's been nearly a year since my last posting to the site, well, because I was able to achieve some lasting relief from my symptoms. Like many of you, I struggled with back & leg pain and have been given the diagnosis of herniated disc(s), spinal stenosis, degenerative disc disease, etc...

Hi ladies. Ahh, the TMS night pain. I know it all too well, unfortunately. Like you, Jules, during the day I'm very functional, but at night I get terrible hip and sciatic pain in my right leg. It actually hurts the worst on the upper-front edge of my thigh (???). I will lie down at night...

I agree with the others Brendan. I used to get it only in my left calf and it freaked me out. Before I knew about TMS, I would consult Dr. Google on such matters and was at one time convinced it was ALS. I have come to realize that these muscle twitches are just there, BFS, as Gigalos...

Hi Walt, I would agree with you that 100% belief has been a struggle for me, especially with the increase in pain and symptoms recently. I understand that 100% belief is necessary for 100% healing, but the doubts do creep in. I know that this is common for us on the "TMS train" for the first...

Hi Molly (healed-name!), thanks for the encouragement. Great advice about noticing the pain-free moments even if they are fleeting. I try to tell myself what a great testimony I will have once I'm healed, and I will have that ever-important evidence that TMS healing works. It's hard in the...

Hi Andy, your entire post was very reassuring to me, especially the ski vids! The perfectionist tendencies are very clear in my over-doing the program. I will certainly take your advice and ramp up the relaxation and quit putting my recovery on a time table. It's funny, even as I was typing...

I am on Day 31 of the SEP, and have been doing Dr. Schechter's "Mindbody Workbook". I initially devoured Sarno's HBP as well as Steve O's "The Great Pain Deception". With all of that, you would think I'd be moving along swimmingly on my road to recovery, but not so much. After reading Sarno...

Very well said, Plum. I'm starting to really see how quickly TMS can rear its ugly head. The triggers are becoming clearer to me day by day, as well. I have seen a lot of progress over the last week in the reduction of my anxiety, and relaxation is sure to follow. Thank you for the sage...

Hi Walt. Thank you for the kind words and encouragement. Success stories of TMSers have been a great source of comfort to me so far as I have started to work through the SEProgram. I understand that the key to a full recovery is to remove all doubt and really believe that my pain is TMS, and...

Hi - apologies in advance for my lengthy post, but this is very cathartic for me and helps to rationalize my TMS self-diagnosis. I'm a 38 year old with a long history of back pain and other pain that I now understand to be manifestations of TMS. When I was 15, I injured my lower back playing...