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Alex B. Brain fog and TMS
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Hi Ed, thanks for the question. Hopefully some other people here will share their experiences with you, but the symptoms you are describing are definitely ones that I’ve seen in my own practice. It’s important to remember that your unconscious mind is capable of generating pretty much any physical sensation. This is how the nervous system works - even when you stub your toe, you don’t actually feel it in your toe, it’s your brain that interprets the signal and tells you it’s pain. This means that almost any physical sensation is fair game for TMS.


The best news here is that you’ve already had some success by approaching your symptoms from a TMS perspective. You’ve experienced tangible improvement, even if there’s still some ways to go. This is a powerful piece of evidence that what you are facing has a non-structural basis. Continue to further this work by building on the momentum of success that you’ve started to establish.


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