fibromyalgia - fms

I've read Healing Back Pain; even before discovering the work of Dr Sarno I was inclined to believe my pain was emotionally-generated... either from on-the-spot stress or acquired "muscularization" habits relating to years of living under fearful conditions. I'm 100% on board with TMS as a...

Originally posted by Dr. Schubiner on March 21, 2011 This blog was written by a friend and writer, Jared Egol. He writes eloquently about the patient’s history as “story” and the concept of “narrative medicine,” i.e. seeing the patient’s story as critical to healing. When the person with...

Originally Written by Dr. Schubiner on February 12, 2009 Naming an illness can be one of the most critical aspects of caring for someone, especially if the illness falls into the category of stress-related illnesses.It is a universal truth that anyone with medical symptoms wants and in fact...

I went to the doctor about a year ago to talk about my sore shoulders, back and hip. The doctor told me I may have FM. I believe FM is just what you are diagnosed with when the doctors don't know what else to diagnose you with. I was told once by a wise old (older) person that "if you look for...

So there are 3 main aspects to my TMS symptoms; joint stiffnes, anxiety/OCD, and chronic fatigue. The first two are relatively straightforward when it comes to challenging them; just do it; DO things that hurt especially when you know it is TMS, DO things that cause anxiety. not easy at all...

Originally posted: April 8, 2015 Taiwanese researchers reviewed a nationwide database and found that indivudals diagnosed with fibromyalgia-- muscle pain, myofascial pain, sleep issues, etc. had a higher incidence of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. The frequency compared to the rest of the...

It is my two year anniversary of learning about TMS and I realize I still haven't written out my success story. This is not because I'm without success, but due to my perfectionism I thought I needed to wait till I was free of all vestiges of TMS and TMS equivalents before declaring myself a...

Written by Dr. Schubiner on June 15, 2008 5—Modern Medicine's Blind Spot The rapidity of advances in medicine has been staggering over the past 50 years. It has been amazing to see the proliferation of research that has helped us understand how individual cells work, how DNA is translated...

Hi Everyone, I thought you'd be interested in the latest scientific discovery with regards to fibromyalgia. This study was published in the journal, Pain Medicine. This was the actual headline of the article. We'll see where this finding leads... Just FYI. Kindly, Dr. Z ------...

Originally posted: February 5, 2015 This month's most amazing story was a woman who came in recently with thirty-five (35) years of symptoms. She had pain, fatigue, digestive issues and other issues. Over the years she had been diagnosed (mis-diagnosed) as fibromyalgia, CFS (chronic...

Hi all wanted to give everyone an update and welcome suggestions or advice on how to proceed with treatment. Briefly I am a 38/m and had fibro/CFS symptoms since teens. I came across the 20 20 Sarno segment and it stuck a big chord and I've been on the TMS train all the way since then. For...

Hi Doctor: I've been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. Does fallen arches cause pain in the knees and upper back? Treatment for TMS states to stop all physical therapies and exercise. Dare I say, continue the exercise and massage but with a time limit of 30 minutes total. Relief of no relief...

I feel I'm through the worst of TMS causing my fibromyalgia and I know my triggers of stress. I am now left with the symptoms of Reynauds and back pain. It feels now that Reynauds was fogging up the problem of what the area to concentrate on was. After saying to my Dr in a non-medical term it...

I’ve been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and the way it mainly manifests in me is pain, fatigue and a kind of malaise some time after activity, especially walking. I don’t mean walking on a treadmill or for the purpose of exercise; I mean just any ordinary walking around in the course of living...

In this excellent 10-minute video: a lovely blonde-haired 20-year-old, Holly, tells how she healed from more than eight years of back, leg, and other pain that had been diagnosed by doctors as fibromyalgia. She became pain free a few years ago by believing her symptoms were caused by...

This is a post Richsimms22 directed me too. I want to thank him for showing me this great post so we can get the knowledge penicillin out. Thanks Rich, Awesome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fibromyalgia (FMS) is a...

Drug Approved. Is Disease Real? By ALEX BERENSON Published: January 14, 2008 Fibromyalgia is a real disease. Or so says Pfizer in a new television advertising campaign for Lyrica, the first medicine approved to treat the pain condition, whose very existence is questioned by some doctors...

Good day readers. I'm new to this site but have been checking in for almost a year now since discovering Dr Sarno and the term 'TMS'. I've had TMS for over twenty years and am now almost completely pain free, all thanks Dr Sarno, Steve Ozanich’s book “The Great Pain Deception” and TMS wiki...

It was recommended that I visit this forum in addition to the other one. Both are proving to be rather amazing! I don't know if cross-posting is acceptable, so I will just not do it until I know otherwise. I did my intro post under Broken Child, which gets the bulk of history stated up front...