fibromyalgia - fms

You’ve done everything right. You’ve made your lists of past stressors, current stressors and tms personality traits. You’ve done expressive writing exercises for 20-30 minutes most days. You self soothe after these sessions through meditation or walking in nature. And you still have symptoms...

Early in the pain recovery process, I read over and over that I should stop talking about the pain. It’s in multiple books and podcasts on the subject, so being the good little student that I am, I took that to heart and immediately stopped all pain discussions. I remember telling my husband...

But I don’t want to journal. Is it the only way to get in touch with emotional drivers of chronic pain? No. No, it’s not. Now, if you aren’t opposed to journaling, I’d certainly start there. It has worked beautifully for many many people including me. However, if the idea of sitting down...

For many years, I lived my life by a few deeply personal mottos, sometimes lighthearted, but always meaningful little sayings that applied to me and my life. But when I was healing from widespread chronic pain (diagnosed as fibromyalgia, chronic Lyme, Hashimotos, leaky gut, adrenal fatigue...you...

“Send yourself messages of safety.” “Be indifferent to the pain.” “Stop trying to heal.” “Lean in.” I’m sure you’ve heard all these phrases and if you are anything like I was when I started this journey, they just confused me and frustrated me more. What the h does “lean in” even mean? And...

The holidays can be fraught with pain for our poor bodies. The expectations and disappointments, the pressure to be a certain way or have things go a certain way, and the general vision we have of the holiday and others we call family can really activate our people pleasing, self critical...

Okay, I hear that I need to “feel my repressed feelings” but what does that even mean? I thought I was already doing that. How do I do what I need to do to get out of pain? All great questions and ones that I had at the beginning of this work. It seems that we TMSers go through stages of...

I was recently reminded of the “Spoon Theory.” For those of you that don't know what that is, the spoon theory is a metaphor used to explain living with chronic pain or illness. I’ve seen it used to explain living with depression, anxiety or autism as well, but for this discussion, I’m going to...

The Dark Days of Fibromyalgia Of all the pain that I endured over the past three decades, the crippling, paralyzing back spasms, the pounding headaches, some days reeling from dizziness so bad that I would run into doorways, nothing compared to the relentless, soul crushing, life...

Hi I am diagnosed with cfs and pots and have been doing fairly well the past few years with the tms approach. However, the past week my arms have get sore like I just worked out even tho I have not worked out at all recently. Not trying to search for reassurance but has anyone else experienced...

I've been reading Freedom From Fibromyalgia by Nancy Selfridge and Franklynn Peterson, and I just finished reading the chapter on anger. I was hoping it would clear some things up for me, but I actually feel even more confused than before. At one point in the chapter, they say this: "What's the...

I came across this article, thanks to my fascination with long COVID and it's possible connection to TMS. What made it even more interesting to me is that long COVID studies seem to converge on the same ideas as the neuroscience of TMS. While back and neck pain remain by far dominant on this...

Hi everyone. I am new here but have been reading about and working with tms concept for a while. I have a question for all of you that may know. I have had really bad fibromyalgia for a few years that started after a series of traumatic events and onset at the same time as hashimoto’s...

Hey everyone! I just wanted to post an update after almost a year since my original post. At that time, I had come back from a serious low point that kept me completely bedridden, but was still far from being able to return to work or school: I was plateaued in a cycle of fear and symptoms that...

I do not know if anybody can relate to this, but could a tms symptom be always being hungry no matter how much you eat? I eat a decent diet, its not perfect. But, i have never had trouble being hungry or anything before my tms. My original diagnosis is cfs but that is unimportant. I was just...

Hi, I am very new to TMS and have only started reading his book "healing Back pain". but already I am questioning whether my case is really TMS and even using curable. So i am unsure whether I should continue the book and do the work required. I am much younger than most people here. Hence my...

I don’t know if I’m just out of shape, if I have the corona virus, or if it’s my tms. I have tms in the forum of chronic fatigue syndrome. I’ve been eating horrible the past month and staying home as well so maybe that has something to do with it. Does anyone else have shortness of breath that...

flare up this 4th of July weekend. Trying to not be scared or anything but it’s really hard. Extreme sore throat. A sore throat is a usual symptom for me and I am not sick or anything. Does anyone else have sore throats all the time or often?

Hi, I’ve been hearing from a lot of people that intense exercise is key to recovery because it reduces stress and sends strong signals to the brain that nothing is wrong or broken in the body. However, I’ve also heard from some people that it took them way back in the process. People say it’s...

This is going to be a long and interesting timeline of my life and how I’ve gone through different types of pain like backache, headache, chronic Insomnia, chronic fatigue, sciatica, tingling nerves in the body, numbing hands, depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia. I’d say I’ve recovered 95%. I...