Is this TMS? Need TMS specialist opinion.

Hi everyone...

I'm a TMS'er that is currently on my healing journey but have a question about a friend of mine. She has an inflammatory skin condition called Lichen Planus. It affects her skin and mucous membranes (mouth & vagina). She believes it was triggered by a vaccine she needed to take for a trip back in 2018 and has tried everything to heal it with diet and removing toxins from her body. Nothing has helped (even medically supervised water fasts, she's gone down the rabbit hole). I tried emailing Dr. Schubiner but never heard back. I've heard he's writing a book and is probably tied up with that.

Is there another specialist that might be able to answer this question?

TIA!

 

My suggestion is to have your friend contact a TMS specialist herself, and have her question answered. There are no doctors on this forum. There is a list of current TMS doctors on the PPD Association website under Patients

 

I can't help you with a recommendation of a specialist I'm afraid, but this research paper comes to the conclusion that LP is psychosomatic https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4601409/ (Role of Depression, Anxiety and Stress in Patients with Oral Lichen Planus: A Pilot Study - PMC) and this dental article says the following about oral LP: "As OLP is orchestrated and compounded by stress, anxiety, depression, and sleep problems, we firmly believe that mind–body interventions like meditation can be a promising strategy to prevent and/or reverse clinical disease and to rehabilitate suffering patients effectively." https://www.thejcdp.com/abstractArticleContentBrowse/JCDP/16839/JPJ/fullText (A Holistic Intervention for Oral Lichen Planus)

My late mother had lichen planus - both oral and genital. She was a junior school teacher, teaching 7 to 8 year old kids - around 40 to 50 of them in each class. Her LP gradually subsided and then went away around 6 months after she retired early from teaching and was free of all the stress.

 

Thank you for sharing this! I think it says a lot that it went away for your Mom after she retired. My Mother was a teacher as well, as are a few of my friends and it's definitely a stressful occupation.