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After many years of successfully dealing with TMS and almost completely eliminating chronic pain, I am struggling again and probably for very good reasons. I lost my husband 10 months ago to a sudden heart attack. I was the first responder and those moments were surreal and the worst of my...

In July of 2017, I woke up one Saturday morning, rolled over and my back completely seized up, paralyzing my legs and torso. On a pain scale of one to ten, it was a twenty… worse than anything I had ever felt, including childbirth. I was terrified as I tried in vain to move or get up. I called...

Please can I ask a question about lower back muscle spasms as I really and absolutely know I have TMS and have improved so much in so many areas of my symptoms, but the one my brain still likes to throw at me is lower back muscle spasms if I turn wrong or bend and twist or carry something wrong...

2017 I was traveling for work. This was a great opportunity for me professionally, but came with a lot of responsibility. I was in my mid-20s and just came off a major physical transformation, dropping 40 LBs of fat in the last year due to diet & exercise. I considered myself to be healthy. On...

I am struggling to fully buy in to some of my back/shoulder blade pain being tms because when I put pressure on it, as you would for a knotted muscle, and pop my back I get some relief for a little while. How does this play into mild oxygen deprivation? I should be clear that I do have tms but...

I am curious if there is anyone on here who has successfully recovered or improved their TMS condition and then gone back to a medical practitioner who previously told you your pain was due to some XYZ structural problem? It just occurred to me that here is a typical scenario on here (let's...

Hi all! I joined the TMS wiki almost 2 years ago when I first learned about Dr. Sarno's work since I had had chronic pain for a couple of years along with other TMS symptoms (anxiety, acid reflux, etc). In my 2-year journey since learning about and 100% accepting the diagnosis and trying many...

This is one questions I;m still pondering. When I was younger I had a condition called Spondylolysis which is the precursor to Spondylolisthesis. Apparently 50% of all youth back pain is attrituable to spondylolysis. Meaning that 50% of all kids who report with back pain have spondylolysis but...

I've been pain-free from my lower back for almost 5 years now and always promised myself that I'd give back to the community that helped heal me, so here it is. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. Hopefully, someone else who is suffering can see themselves in my journey...

Hi All, This will be my third thread that I have posted and I am sad to say my back issue is back again. My previous posts were on the same thing - I healed myself the first time after reading "healing back pain" and then it came back after 6 months. I managed to beat it again and then it came...

Hi all, Back after a hiatus. There has been a lot of improvement- actually. The symptoms have improved and I feel better. The fear is also much less- including the obsession. I still struggle with the persistent fear of re-injury or the fear of pain; feeling pain, so decided to go back into...

Hi I'm new to this forum. Just looking a little advice about TMS symtoms cuz I'm 95 percent sure I have it. My symptoms are mostly higher up my lumbar spine but my main symptom is extreme tightness only when sitting then dissappears as soon as I stand up. Then when I stand in one position after...

What are you supposed to do when the back blocks intensely? i have been reading and trying the TmS approach since ten days. I have bad back pain almost continuously for 21 years and from time to time, I get a half day free of pain. Every few weeks/months, I get acute bad back pain to the point...

I am in one week of this. I have 20 years of back pain and scans that say I have a couple of hernias etc. But with all the other symptoms and ups and down I really think it’s alot ofTMS... So in three days of completely locking my back I got so much better. And then BANG it’s 72 hours of worse...

Basically I struggled with back pain all throughout college. It did restrict me from some activites. I'm not confused as to how TMS causes back pain but the vast majority on the people on this site are not my age haha. Is back pain at sucha young age commonplace? I guess it kinda sucks that I...

Hi Everyone, I've had chronic back pain for 5 years which I believe to be TMS. Recently I've noticed I get pain in my mid/upper left side of the back when I breathe through my chest, if I breathe through my stomach I don't feel it. Is this part of my TMS? Thanks

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/to-break-the-cycle-of-pain-its-mind-over-matter/ (Beating Back Pain) an excellent article that might give others hope.

Met with an Orthopedic Surgeon and had x-rays of my back. He said my spine looked great for a 43 year old, no sign of compression or herniations. If anything he said I might have some small irregularities of my SI joints which is where my paid resides. he said my back lipomas are normal and...

So I had TMS issues back years ago with health anxiety that produced some real physical pains that mimicked the worry I had. After numerous tests I was deemed fine. I had been actually able to create severe legs cramps, distorted vision etc... I consider TMS and HA one in the same, or at least...