Recent content by westb

Thank you! What an encouraging post and helpful for me, who has pelvic pain as one of the symptoms.

I feel your pain, TrustIt, as a fellow IBS/anxiety sufferer. It's a horrible place to be where you are. First aid suggestions that I've found helpful in the past: Breathe! Know that you are not alone Listen to a favourite TMS or other podcast. Or indeed a favourite radio programme...

Thank you for posting this video, Cactusflower. Although it's nearly all information that I've acquired here and elsewhere over the years, there is something very empowering about hearing a renowned physician in this particular area say with such authority that pelvic pain and tightness that...

That Jon Kabat-Zinn quote and your thoughts about it are very helpful Ellen. Thank you.

This so helpful and clear, as @hecate105 has said. Thank you Ann. I'm dealing with these same points right now, notably the lack of feelings of safety in many pivotal areas of my life and the lack of acceptance of flares of what feels like unbearable pelvic pain. My whole body and nervous...

This is a wonderful success story. Thank you.

Haven't been around here for a while, but here I am and I needed to read this post. Thank you so much for it. The lockdown has thrown me in on myself which has brought up a lot of childhood stuff that I thought I'd worked through on my TMS journey. I'm retired and I live alone and normally...

The pain medications help a bit, and I've no qualms about taking them but they are not enough to let me sleep during a bad flare. Thankfully this isn't every night, and mostly my sleep isn't too bad. But when it isn't it does muck up my head, I have to admit, and I posted the comment you...

= I feel for you dealing with this. My story with IBS and acute rectal/bowel pain is very similar and I have had mixed success in applying TMS principles simply because my mind and body in the past have gone into very acute anxiety and panic mode almost automatically. I've had all the...

My symptoms aren't the same as yours @cool_change (IBS + rectal pain/spasm) but I am struggling - in my case with the deep fear of the pain, thanks to a recent excruciating flare. Thanks for the reminder re Claire Weekes, I have her excellent book and need to do some re-reading. I too...

There's gold here, @RogueWave. Thank you so much for breaking the TMS recovery concept down into such easy to follow points. I've actually printed off your answer here to refer to away from the computer. The body being addicted to stress hormones rings so true to me., and many of my...

Absolutely, no "one size fits all" in TMS recovery. Not always easy to do, but it is the key part of TMS recovery for me.

Welcome @JennyDK35 . You're in the right place, and from the way you describe your history and personality type it sounds as if you have the "TMS personality". I'm very sorry you're having this pain and for the troubles and pain you have had over the years. For me, I have IBS/rectal spasm...

Very helpful summary and a good reminder of how to deal with flares - always useful, at least to me @NicoleB34. Thanks. I have the IBS/rectal spasm and IC symptoms and I've always believed they were linked, even before learning about CS/ TMS. It really does come back to acceptance, trust and...

I'm still a work in progress with IBS and pelvic pain but my relationship with food has changed in that I now know that food itself isn't the issue, it's the feelings behind it. I used to have food binges as you describe but, to be honest, the physical pain and sickness I got increasingly after...