What makes you think you have to see a TMS practitioner, and especially see one in person? I've read your other thread - you received valuable feedback from people with the same issues, and you state that you've had a scan of the affected area and they didn't find anything. The fact that you still think you need to see another doctor in person tells us your fearful primitive brain is still stuck believing in (and causing you to hope for) a physical cause.
The above is mostly a rhetorical question by the way - we don't pay attention to medical details or symptom details here because we aren't medical professionals! Our goal is to support anyone who wants to learn how to accept the TMS diagnosis - which for many of us is self-diagnosis.
The vast majority of individuals (myself included, back in 2011) managed to recover from all kinds of TMS symptoms without seeing a TMS doctor. I had a huge setback last year thanks to the pandemic on top of too many years of dysfunctional world affairs and saying Yes to too many commitments, and I managed to contract RA. After my first rheumatology consultation, I consulted with Dr. Schecter (by video) to ask him if RA was TMS. I really wanted him to say Yes, it absolutely is and you can treat it as such. Unfortunately, his answer was (and it still is, as he said recently at a PPDA presentation) that I can definitely consider the onset of my RA to be stress-based, but now that I have it, I have to be a good patient and do what I'm told. However, he said that I should also make a serious commitment to pursue stress reduction, because remission is not out of the question, as he's seen it plenty of times. He also recommended therapy, and gave me an excellent referral to a TMS therapist, who has been incredibly helpful to help untangle the web of stresses that I have been accumulating.
Anyone who has been around here for enough time knows that the pandemic and the world situation before the pandemic have together created an epidemic of TMS that only keeps growing. And just as many of us were lucky enough to be finally settled in to our changed lives since the shutdown, now we're thrown into new uncertainty as things are starting to change and new questions are being thrown into the mix.
