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What’s the most amazing recovery story you’ve heard?

hopefuldoe

hopefuldoe

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Hey everyone, I’m new to this. Suffering from most likely small fibre neuropathy in legs. Not sure if it can be TMS, but I’m willing to take my shot. Doctors can’t help me since it’s idiopathic. I also have temperature problems, I sweat and tremble a lot.

I read Sarno’s book and the Way Out, but nothing resembling my symptoms. My symptoms are constant and not changing places, however they started after having an abdominal surgery.

what’s the most impressive recovery story you’ve heard? I really don’t want to frustrate myself once again… so far the only thing that works is distraction.
 
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You don’t need a success story with your exact symptoms, TMS is TMS, and the TMS brain will try to make it seem like if you don’t see a success story with your symptoms there’s no point in starting the work.

even if your case isn’t TMS there’s no harm nor anything to be lost via this work. We can all benefit from emotional introspection and obsessing less over physical sensations.

I have peripheral neuropathy, diagnosed via emg and ncs, it has zero impact on my life these days, for a while it really frightened and frustrated me, now I don’t care about it at all, I have some burning at night, and constant tingling if I focus on it, but it’s taken a backseat to other TMS stuff. But I overcame the fear of it even before becoming TMS aware, I also wasnt as ‘primed’ to fully catastrophize over it.

dan Buglio’s YouTube painfreeyou has a lot of success stories, if you filter by views you’ll probably find the most jarring ones.
 
Thank you. That’s really helpful.

Also you have amazing results. It’s difficult for me to image being ok with burning skin. My nerve tests were negative, therefore I’m hopeful.
 
hopefuldoe said:
Thank you. That’s really helpful.

Also you have amazing results. It’s difficult for me to image being ok with burning skin. My nerve tests were negative, therefore I’m hopeful.
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That’s how we all start. A burning scrotum following a vasectomy is what led me to TMS work, but prior I was losing my mind and feeling hopeless. That issue is 95% resolved through this work. You’re in the right place.

don’t think of it as being okay with burning skin, acceptance and allowing of the symptoms are how you start, but eventually you stop realizing they’re there or they fully go away. Our brains are creating these sensations, our mind can end them.
 
Rabscuttle said:
That’s how we all start. A burning scrotum following a vasectomy is what led me to TMS work, but prior I was losing my mind and feeling hopeless. That issue is 95% resolved through this work. You’re in the right place.

don’t think of it as being okay with burning skin, acceptance and allowing of the symptoms are how you start, but eventually you stop realizing they’re there or they fully go away. Our brains are creating these sensations, our mind can end them.
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That makes sense. At work the sensations are much better because I’m distracted.

congrats on 95% of progress. How long did it take you? I understand everyone’s path is different. I believe in TMS but I wanna hear more from people who have recovered. It gives me hope.
 
hopefuldoe said:
That makes sense. At work the sensations are much better because I’m distracted.

congrats on 95% of progress. How long did it take you? I understand everyone’s path is different. I believe in TMS but I wanna hear more from people who have recovered. It gives me hope.
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I’m not recovered in the sense that you’re referring, since unfortunately I deal with other symptoms that popped up after my fear of my initial ones faded. But from being TMS aware to no longer caring or really noticing the scrotal pain was 3ish months. But getting over that symptom for me, is so unbelievably indescribably massive, that even as I deal with other crippling sensations my commitment to this work and the realization that I deserve better and can be better will never waver.

the fact that your symptoms are better out of the house is a huge sign that it’s TMS. You should make an evidence log, and add that to the list.
 
I’m happy to hear that neuropathy type of pain can be caused by TMS. My pain goes down if I walk. It doesn’t make any sense to me. It used to be tingling, now just burning skin. I had pelvic pain (and also damaged nerves) due to a medical diagnosis and got over it. I wonder if there’s a connection of being in chronic pain for a year and then developing similar symptoms in another pain of the body. It would make a lot of sense.
 
hopefuldoe said:
Suffering from most likely small fibre neuropathy in legs.
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I had never heard about this disorder other than recenlty hearing other people with TMS who have it.

So it stuck out to me and a few days ago I came across it when I was reading Dr. Schubiner's book "Unlearn Your Pain" 4th edition. This is from the section where he is talking about Common Mind Body Symptoms. This is from page 70:

"Tingling and numbness sensations:

It is common to have unusual sensations on the skin. These often occur in the hands or feet, but can occur anywhere in the body. Itching is another common condition. Medical testing, as always, is necessary to rule out actual nerve damage due to vitamin deficiencies, chemotherapy, or an alcohol use disorder. When a diagnosis of small fiber neuropathy is made, you can be assured that it is a mind body condition, as the nerves are actually working well. Many people are told that they have idiopathic neuropathy. If there is no evidence of nerve damage based upon the neurological exam, you can be assured that this is a neural circuit condition. EMG testing often shows some mild "damage," but just like MRIs, these findings are usually seen in normal people without pain. Even skin biopsies said to be diagnostic of small bier neuropathy are seen in normal people."

CONGRATULATIONS! Unless there is something they found as above or something you are not telling us, you have TMS! This is FANTASTIC NEWS as you can heal yourself. I'm being completely serious. Trust me, it is great news. Even Dr. Schubiner who is an MD and one of the TMS Greats says "YOU CAN BE ASSURED IT IS A MIND BODY CONDITION"

I've heard a lot of crazy TMS recovery stories. Mine will be one some day. I was diagnosed with a very rare neurological condition and one that my doctors had never seen before. I also developed it 2 months after surgery which I believe was the stress and straw that broke the camel's back for me to develop my severe symptoms.

I lost my ability to walk one day and I saw so many doctors including 2 neurologists and there was nothing wrong with my nerves or my muscles or tendons or bones. I was told it was a terrible disorder I'd never recover from, but no, it was as Dr. Schubiner said, a neural circuit condition (ie a Mind Body condition) which I have the power in me to cure.

I'm still early in my recovery as I had a lot of missteps in the traditional medical world before I found Dr. Sarno. But 14 months ago I couldn't walk at all and was in a mobility scooter, and last week I ran a 10k. To make sure it wasn't a fluke, 2 days later I did it again.

Thus far my primary "disorder" I have only found in Schubiner's book but I would suggest also reading all the Sarno books. Read others too and don't be bothered if your symptom is not there, if the other things speak to you (ie TMS personality and your life) and your symptoms behave like the examples say for back pain, then it's you too.
 
hopefuldoe said:
Hey everyone, I’m new to this. Suffering from most likely small fibre neuropathy in legs. Not sure if it can be TMS, but I’m willing to take my shot. Doctors can’t help me since it’s idiopathic. I also have temperature problems, I sweat and tremble a lot.

I read Sarno’s book and the Way Out, but nothing resembling my symptoms. My symptoms are constant and not changing places, however they started after having an abdominal surgery.

what’s the most impressive recovery story you’ve heard? I really don’t want to frustrate myself once again… so far the only thing that works is distraction.
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Yes to: "Can this be TMS?"

If you search this forum for small fiber neuropathy, dozens of threads come up. I was just looking to see if there were threads at all, and if any could be helpful here. There were so many that it took too much time to sort through them all.
There are 10 pages of them:
Small Fiber Neuropathy search
 
I had neuropathy in both hands, arms, and even the upper back. Not sure whether it was a small fiber or a big fiber, because my doctors never bothered to determine the size, but it all went away, along with other quite physical symptoms. You can find my post in the Success Stories subforum.
 
If you'd been born earlier you wouldn't suffer from Neuropathy...it would se some other fairytale collection of symptoms that is a repackaging and branding of TMS.
I have been cured long enough to have watched a lot of diagnoses go by. To be Honest, I just had to google That word (Neuropathy) to see WTF it is...and it's like Myofascial pain, CRPS or Fibromyalgia just updated for 2025. They can't charge us money if they diagnose us with an unfashionable malady. Imagine getting diagnosed with Lumbago or Neurasthenia?
"Wait..my grandparents had that. Certainly they have cured it by now?"
Nope. They come up with a different excuse...uh....I mean diagnosis.
It's all TMS
 
Rabscuttle said:
But getting over that symptom for me, is so unbelievably indescribably massive, that even as I deal with other crippling sensations my commitment to this work and the realization that I deserve better and can be better will never waver.
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I love this!
 
TG957 said:
I had neuropathy in both hands, arms, and even the upper back. Not sure whether it was a small fiber or a big fiber, because my doctors never bothered to determine the size, but it all went away, along with other quite physical symptoms. You can find my post in the Success Stories subforum.
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Amazing! Was it a long journey?
 
JanAtheCPA said:
Wrong question, @hopefuldoe! Comparing yourself to others is really unhelpful because each individual will have a unique recovery. Just don't do it. Your brain will always find a way to turn comparisons into negative pressure and expectations - I guarantee it.
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Thank you, Jan! I can only second your perfect answer!
 
Baseball65 said:
If you'd been born earlier you wouldn't suffer from Neuropathy...it would se some other fairytale collection of symptoms that is a repackaging and branding of TMS.
I have been cured long enough to have watched a lot of diagnoses go by. To be Honest, I just had to google That word (Neuropathy) to see WTF it is...and it's like Myofascial pain, CRPS or Fibromyalgia just updated for 2025. They can't charge us money if they diagnose us with an unfashionable malady. Imagine getting diagnosed with Lumbago or Neurasthenia?
"Wait..my grandparents had that. Certainly they have cured it by now?"
Nope. They come up with a different excuse...uh....I mean diagnosis.
It's all TMS
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Baseball, it is even worse now! It is not just neuropathy, it is "small fiber neuropathy", just to get people more scared and confused.
 
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