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I haven’t been feeling so great these last days. Its just a cold but its pretty bad and i just have sore throat headache and couldnt eat. Anyway, I hadnt eaten in 2 days, I just went downstairs to level with my folks. Suddenly theres this annoying ass sound and im looking around like what the...

A year ago I started a chair exercise program and it is helping… but I was looking for more …some kind of a solution for me and I found it last week. I found this app that is a simple timer to remind you to stand up. (it’s actually called Stand Up!) it’s free. You can set the timer for how...

Hey guys! I know I disappeared for a bit (I’ve found that only coming here specifically to read success stories or when I feel like I need encouragement vs just hanging around on the site all day is the best formula for me) but I want to share my progress and get some encouragement. Since the...

This past week I’ve been feeling 50-80% less pain. Things are changing! I feel it with all my heart. What’s working: —Daily dedicated exercise (bed yoga) followed by guided meditation. —Much less focus on TMS. (Even took time off from the forum.) —Doing a lot of self-soothing. —More...

I'm starting this journey again and the last time I tried, things just did not get better within a month which made me stop once i had too many other stressors. How do you lovely folks go about that?

Hi everyone! Here’s what’s been working for me the most lately: I’m Finally following Sarno’s recommendation to “get on with life.” (Surprise, surprise!) I believe this is a mental place to be as well as a physical place. It’s actually a hard place to get to —or at least it was for me. I had...

What I’m learning is impossible to contain in a single post. I like to write these little updates sometimes— I’m always hoping that something I write will help somebody. Helping people on the forum always makes me feel better. And it also teaches me. It’s so much easier to hear my own advice...

Some days are bad with TMS, all kinds of bad. Some are even good. And every once in a while, things are great. That’s me today. To be honest—my symptoms haven’t drastically changed. It’s true, in the last year I’ve gone from 16 to 4 symptoms. Most all of them were caused by a jacked up nervous...

Lately, I’ve been emptying and loading the dishwasher every single day. At first, I was in so much pain standing up I couldn’t do it all. But I did what I could. Now, I’m able to stand up the entire time, feel no pain and even enjoy doing it. I feel no pain because I ignore it. And for this one...

Being grandiose-oriented and very hard on myself, I’m always looking for the big ways to get better. But a couple friends of mine on this forum have encouraged me to see the value in incremental steps, or baby steps. Standing up to cook. Can you do it for 5 minutes? That counts as exercise! Can...

Thank you to everyone who’s following my story… tomorrow I head home from the beach, the 150 miles to my house, a three-hour car ride. I haven’t felt nervous all day. Before I came I was overwhelmed with anxiety for two days —so this is an improvement. It will be interesting to see how strong...

Hi, everyone! Today is my birthday and I am thankful to be alive —even with my TMS! I am blessed to be at the beach— my favorite place in the whole world. And I got here by facing all my fears and coming despite my anxiety and doubts. Instead of failing, like I feared, I’ve been getting...

Today wasn’t a bad day. I didn’t think much about TMS (for once), except to reflect on the many minuscule changes that have taken place in my body. A little less panic. A little less weakness and tension. A little less pain. Night goes to dawn in negligible increments. Maybe it will be that way...

If I were to put all that’s changed down on paper over the past year, the list of changes and improvements I’ve made are amazing. Still: I wish my TMS were all gone. But it’s been slow progress. I still need to really push the boundaries harder. I think of myself as being in pain. But I’m...

You might recognize this line from the fantastic movie called Almost Famous, about a 15-year-old kid in the 70s who covered a mid-level band for Rolling Stone magazine. It was a line they used to say—in effect, “watch this. Dreams are coming true. Special things have come.“It’s all happening.”...

OK people! my bed yoga is WORKING! I’m one week in and I’ve been faithful to it. I did it five days last week, so two days off. I forgot how fast your body really gets stronger; it wants to! The sad thing is, I can see now that my attitude, my discouragement, my feeling so defeated, all blocked...

Hello my fellow pain pilgrims! So, the SEP today was about perfectionism and at the same time suggested that I write about positive changes that I have noticed in my life. I turned that over and over in my head, because this past week I had a couple of "setbacks" where I got a little...

After a year of TMS work, things are getting smoother —much much smoother. Less inner pressure. Less OCD. Less pressure to perform. Less pressure to do what I don’t want to do. Less conflict. Less torment. Less confusion. Less pain. Less terror. More knowing how, and when to say, “no.” More...

My Update after 5 months here on the wiki. What a profoundly amazing experience! Deepest thanks to everyone here helping me! SYMPTOMS My physical symptoms have ebbed slightly. Some symptoms have disappeared (I had about 15 coming in.) The ones I have left don’t scare me anymore. LIFE...

In the past four months, I’ve been on this forum daily. For the simple reason: it keeps me sane. What has changed for me? My symptoms haven’t really improved all that much. They have gone up and down. The best: the edge came off the pain. The more extreme symptoms subsided from time to time...