Recent content by tmstraveler

Hey, you wonderful TMS Wiki types. I promised myself if I ever got better, I’d post a success story. And while life is too busy to lay it all out in the detail it deserves, I will get to that someday. But this site and this community have been hugely influential in my recovery and so I wanted...

Thank you, Jan! My journey has been a bumpy one but I do feel like I'm on the other side of the worst of it. So if my story inspires anyone else out there who believes this is the path, but still struggles with the ups and downs of it, then I'm happy to share it. I got 100% sucked back into the...

Hey, Lukas. This is the norm, not the exception. Being pain-free for six months is a massive accomplishment. After you get past this bump, you'll likely go longer and longer without this cropping back up until hopefully it's a distant memory. The trick is to not get sucked back into the fear...

Hey, all. Just popping in to say hi. It’s been a while and a lot has happened. I’m riding a bike, living with a great girl, working two jobs, even took a few vacations—all things that seemed more than impossible less than two years ago. Am I done? No. I’m not sure we ever are, right? In that...

Thanks. It’s a terrible label as you well know!

Excited to listen to this. Rita and Tamara are so inspiring. Please don’t take this the wrong way but are there any other CRPS success stories out there involving people using mind/body techniques? I only ever seem to find Rita and Tamara when I look.

My aunt (a devout Buddhist) has been counted out by doctors time and time again. She was hit by a bus and our family was told that the clot in her brain would render her brain dead. She recovered completely. Just recently, she had another issue where her body was on fire and the doctors were...

Sean, this is the height of hypocrisy for me to offer advice since I’m still working on my stuff, but this condition plagues people who are over-thinkers and hypervigilant. I know it’s a shitty thing to ask someone who is dealing with so much pain to not make it their mission to sort it out, but...

Thanks, everyone. It’s been a ride. I got an MRI (which I’d never done before) and it was clean. Now I’m back with The Pain Psychology Center and working to recommit to this work. It’s the relapse of the century! I went from hiking twice a day to being afraid to not Google for 5 minutes and...

Thank you, Andy. That’s very kind. My symptoms have been bad before, but in this relapse they are truly testing me. You kind of wonder if TMS can get so bad it actually *does* kill you but that’s not helpful, and in the end we always have a choice in how we respond to it. My mindfulness has...

Holy hell. It started off a couple of months ago with insomnia and depression, then a spike in symptoms and now I’m off to the races. I got prescriptions. I did PT. They’re giving me an MRI on Wednesday. If you ever doubted TMS’ ability to distract you, let me tell you it’s doing a bang-up job...

You’re 100% fine. Your anxious brain is just looking for something to fixate on. I know that’s difficult to stop but it’s something everyone here grapples with. You should start taking care of yourself aside from this concern. That means whatever relaxes you. Do you things you enjoy. Take a hot...