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My IBS Flare (plus many others) Success Story

Discussion in 'Success Stories Subforum' started by bobbyPT, Jan 31, 2025.

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  1. bobbyPT

    bobbyPT New Member

    Hi everyone,

    I just wanted to share my success story that I did with Jim Prussack at the The Pain PT. We discussed a variety of topics but focused on how grief, parenting, and general fears led me to developing and recovering from muscle pain, muscle weakness, bladder symptoms, IBS, insomnia, fatigue, and anxiety. From this work I have also been able to recover from other symptoms such as tension headaches, vertigo, sciatica, neuropathy, plantar fasciitis, and dry eye. Please share if you find it helpful and please reach out if you need help.

     
    bobbyPT, Jan 31, 2025
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  2. bobbyPT

    bobbyPT New Member

    Hi everyone I am just sharing this again for people to learn my recovery story. Hopefully it helps.
     
    bobbyPT, Jan 16, 2026
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  3. elchessboy

    elchessboy Peer Supporter

    Hi Bobby ,
    loved your video! dont take this the wrong way but maaaann i never met someone who went to the doctor as much as you did . wow!!! lol

    I thought my bill was high at 38k of all doctor bills i owe...which in turn didnt heal me. Just made things alot worse. Thankfully im down to maybe 1 symptom and that comes intermittently or when ive had a stressful day.

    Towards the end, what really healed me was the mindbody. Doctors still ridicule me and say thats non sense...but I think whats really non sense is the crap and tests they put you thrugh and the specialists they send you to, and the many meds they prescribe and unnecessarry surgeries they want to advise on. smh. Made all my symptoms ALOT worse.

    I will never again go to doctors unless its an emergency or broken bones!. Because if there is 1 thing I learned from going to so many doctors..is .. almost ALL symtoms are stress related!! almost 90%-95% of doctor visits are stress related!

    and if Anxiety/tms has thousands of symtoms,...I will not be going to the doctor 1000 times.!

    p.s. I couldnt ever drink coffee becaue 10 minutes after i would have the runs. Everyday!! Now I drink coffee every morning everyday and soda and im good . So am I a recovery? who knows. who cares. im just living life to the fullest!!!!
     
    elchessboy, Jan 25, 2026
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  4. bobbyPT

    bobbyPT New Member


    Haha I know I have heard that from someone else about going to the doctor but there really is nothing wrong with that. Many people go to TMS doctors to get the diagnosis which is highly recommended and is a big piece of evidence in recovery. I do not think we should write off medicine in general. Sure there are many symptoms that can be stress related but as someone who also works in a hospital I have seen many people come in with back pain which turns out to be cancer or dizziness which is really due to a stroke. Doing this work is great but it is not the work that is going to really help you the most in preventing something like a heart attack. Hope you will be able to find a good doctor who takes a whole person approach to medicine.
     
    bobbyPT, Jan 26, 2026
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  5. elchessboy

    elchessboy Peer Supporter

    oh if youre talking about TMS doctors then that is totally different than reg doctors that dont have a clue about the mind body symptoms. Ive been to several over the course of many many years and like i said.. that got me worse. From insomnia, to ibs, to migraine headaches, to back pain to other weird stuff. 2 unecessary surgeries plus 3 more telling me i need internal surgery or else i would never heal.
    i lauhg at it now. I realized me going to the doctor for everything is like going to physical therapy for my lower back pain. to me it was like a OCD thing.
    Ive never felt better even at my age 55 years old since i stopped going 10 years ago. I feel much better than i did in my 20s 30s 40's !

    to each their own. Anyway BLESS to everyone that is on their journey to heal ! YOU WILL HEAL!! just practice the mindbody. Take meds in the beggining in need to but dont go down the rabbit hole and live with symtoms for 20-30 years because regulating the nervous system doesnt take that long!!! this is all a fight or flight nervous system issue! The body know
     
    elchessboy, Jan 26, 2026
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  6. JanAtheCPA

    JanAtheCPA Beloved Grand Eagle

    Sure, why not? There's no such thing as a 100% "cure" for TMS symptoms, because the TMS mechanism is a survival tool built into our brains. IMO, the definition of "recovery" is fully living our lives by mindfully and rationally recognizing, accepting and managing what are usually unnecessary symptoms.

    I say "usually" because when it comes to paying attention to your body, I'm with @bobbyPT. I had my TMS recovery in 2011/12, but I have personally taken the "it's all TMS" a bit too far - I'm thinking about the summer cough that I tried to ignore back in 2018 (age 67) until it turned into walking pneumonia... In 2020 I suddenly developed RA (that I tried to ignore) (age 69) as a result of really extreme stress from two different sources, made mindlessly much worse by the pandemic. Last summer (age 74) I had an episode of irregular heartbeats that are common for me, but this time they kept going and felt worse the more stressed out I got, so I finally called a Lyft and went down to urgent care well after midnight - where they said I was in full-blown A-fib. Dang. WHICH I believe was totally stress-related (and indeed, Kaiser's intake protocol includes a question about recent stress which I consider quite enlightened - and which was relevant due to a phone call earlier that evening which left me very concerned about the emotional well-being of a close friend).

    So, IMHO age needs to be considered. I've always been mindful about maintaining a relatively healthy lifestyle with moderation. But I also had lifelong anxiety. I've realized, looking at my ancestors and now the friends and family in my own generation, that our Medicare-eligible age of 65 is not arbitrary, because at some not long after 60, even those of us who are considered very healthy start to experience less resilience. We weren't really designed to live this long, after all, right? This is particularly true when it comes to the stress-based conditions, which, for those of us who discovered TMS recovery late in life, often result from prior decades of untreated anxiety and TMS symptoms. Living past our planned obsolescence requires rational mindfulness.

    All that being said - At 74, even with the RA (well under control with a low dose of a basic med) and maybe the A-fib (which two weeks on a monitor indicated was a one-off, so I told them I was not going to take the anti-coags anymore) I still consider myself to be in better shape than I was at 60 when I was on the road to becoming housebound with escalating symptoms. The only time I saw a TMS doctor was a video consult with Dr. Schecter after my RA diagnosis in 2020. I didn't want to take the medication, but he said I had to, or face serious physiological consequences, because my inflammatory markers were way out of line. Perhaps if I meditated an hour every day I could wean off of the drug, but I know myself and it ain't gonna happen. My primary doc and my rheumatologist at Kaiser are both happy to agree with me that stress is at the core of most of my symptoms (enlightened!)(both female, BTW) although before 2020 I had decided not to mess around with high blood pressure, so I've been on another basic and low dose med for that. Again - a commitment to serious meditation would probably make a difference, but that was unlikely to happen after 2016 and it's even less likely in 2026 (enough said).
     
    JanAtheCPA, Jan 29, 2026
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  7. bobbyPT

    bobbyPT New Member


    Thank you for sharing @JanAtheCPA! As a PT I have seen this many times in the hospital where everyday symptoms we may assume to be TMS are actually cancer or something else. I get concerned that people avoid seeing medical providers because of their past negative experiences and I understand that but it is also an important part of the diagnosis. I tell people that this work can be very helpful in overall health and well being but it is the not the primary prevention strategy with regards to cancer, heart attacks, strokes, etc.
     
    bobbyPT, Jan 31, 2026
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