Recent content by cishealing

I'm getting a benefit from your entries. Knowing there is someone else out there that is doing the work but continuing to have bad days and nights, makes me feel less alone in this TMS journey.

Off all meds is such a great victory! I'm so happy for you.

Steve, thanks for this post. I was just composing a cry for help and support around my strategy of baby steps into movement not working the last few weeks. I guess my thoughts that are creating the TMS are still there, despite everything. sigh. Getting frustrated but I know there is no...

levfin003, during the worst of my TMSing, I was convinced that even a ride in a car (vibrations!) would flare up my leg pain. I remember distinctly at one point saying to my husband that I didn't want to go somewhere because I thought the car ride would hurt me, but that I realized in the...

I absolutely understand both your issues. I was on gabapentin for about a year. I started weaning off of it in January of this year and finished on March 15th. I was on a pretty high dose (2400 mg/day) and came off of it very, very slowly -- probably dropping 200 mg. every week. Physically...

rabbit this is great news! Thanks for sharing it. I wish you the best as you continue on your journey. Cee

COgirl, I do think so because I've been experiencing a very similar thing myself. Since initially getting much better in September of last year after accepting that TMS is my problem and not sciatica from a bulging disc, I've had one bad relapse lasting six weeks, and a couple of shorter and...

Hang in there. It sounds like extinction burst to me in response to the good work you are doing in therapy. Try not to try so hard....I know, easier said than done. You ARE NOT the one that doesn't heal. We all think that at times and we are all wrong. Cee

Flare ups/relapses are just the WORST! Soul-crushing, even. But they really are temporary. You've done well before, you will do well again. Keep the faith, try to tamp down the fear and wait a little bit. You'll be back on the road to recovery that you want to be on very, very soon. Cee

Winterhaven123, that sucks that you are in this place. If you haven't read Steve Ozanich's book "The Great Pain Deception", you should. It might help you make sense of your situation. Cee

Thanks Walt! The money woes are taken care of because half the stuff I bought needs to go back. Win-win... Pleasant dreams to you too! Cee

Donovan, I am thinking about you and sending you strength. I hope your car accident injuries are feeling better and that you've had some success in not TMSing about them. I would struggle with that too, so I really, really feel you. Cee

It was really helpful for me to write this post last night. I realized after writing it that I was most afraid and fearful of insomnia and not my leg pain. After I wrote this, I read a little bit of Steven Ozanich's The Great Pain Deception where he writes that to defeat the pain you must...

I've been doing generally well, with a strategy of very, very gradually increasing my activity so that I don't scare myself into an increase of TMS symptoms. But today I really needed to go clothes shopping, having been stuck in immobility for the better part of a year. So I did. I had a...