Has anyone used TMS for autoimmune disorder?

TMS is a condition, so although I think I know what you're getting at, I'd like to say that what you are really doing is using TMS theory to take control of your mental and physical health.

TMS theory is absolutely brilliant, but many practitioners have been building on it and the new information that neuroscientists have been coming up with in the last decade is really stunning. So TMS ends up being one aspect of a much bigger spectrum of mind-body awareness and techniques that anyone can use to take charge of any aspect of their health.

Looking back to when I broke my hip in a bike accident in 2009, I can see that I used mind-over-body techniques when I refused to take prescription pain meds both before and after I had surgery to pin up my femur. Once I was x-rayed and told that I had a very simple fracture, and that if I chose the surgery I could be on crutches in two days, my pain level immediately went down, because my fear of weeks of being bedridden and future disability went away. After the surgery they kept obsessing about my pain level, and I kept saying that a couple of ibuprofen was all I needed - and I wasn't even taking those after the first week. What I was doing (without knowing the neuroscience behind it) was visualizing a positive outcome - helped, of course, by my willingness to follow all instructions and do my PT exercises without fail.

If you're interested in what one mind-body practitioner has to say about the science behind autoimmune conditions and emotional stress, please read "When The Body Says No" by Dr. Gabor Mate. He's a wonderful, compassionate writer, in addition to explaining the physiology behind many conditions that we are struggling with in the modern world.

And I just saw Mike's reply about The Connection - which is an excellent introduction to just how much farther you can take this work beyond TMS!