Recent content by Tunza

Has anyone else listened to this podcast? I thought it was a very respectful exploration of TMS in the context of people getting symptoms from others around them. It pays to listen right through all the episodes before judging what you think of it. The term they use is "conversion disorder"...

I'm sorry about your RA experience Jan. I can trace the first of my autoimmune symptoms to during and extremely stressful period of thousands of aftershocks that we experienced in my city (Christchurch, NZ) after a couple of very large earthquakes, one of which killed quite a few people and...

How are you doing now Mina? I have Sjogren's syndrome (autoimmune). Like around one third of people with it I don't have the antibodies so it had to be diagnosed with a biopsy of my salivary glands. It took 8 years to get a diagnosis and getting a diagnosis was helpful. But not the end of the...

Hi Huckleberry, do you mind me asking if your stomach issues settled down. I read an earlier post where you described gurgling and bloating and "fasle hunger". Thank you.

Hi Fern (from another HSP here. I loved your description of how you hope to "unfurl" from the contractions you have experienced against the harsher parts of life). How are you doing?

Marcia please can you tell me more about the crying thing? I've been told I have Sjogren's Syndrome (autoimmune condition that causes dry eyes, dry mouth etc) but I can still cry normal tears. But my eyes get painfully dry to the point that I've been told they are classed as severe and not...

Article from the Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/conversion-disorder--the-mysterious-condition-dogged-by-doubt-and-stigma-20171101-gzch6g.html (Conversion disorder: The mysterious condition dogged by doubt and stigma)

Lala, I hope that you are still well. I want to thank you for sharing what you did as I am currently going through upper GI pain, nausea etc and you have given me such hope. I've had a gastroscopy that showed nothing other than a small hernia so my doctor has concluded it's a functional GI...