My First Success

Hey there,
I am almost done reading through “Mind Your Body” by Nicole Sachs and after I finish, since I will be on winter break from college for a month, I plan to start Nicole’s 28-day Challenge.

I realized recently something that I had been kind of cagey to “announce” incase I was wrong, but now that more time has passed I realize most likely my gut was right about: I already have had a success story with one of my (many) symptoms that took place last month. After about 3 weeks of first discovering and then learning/reading about TMS, I started getting pains in both my forearms and hands all of a sudden that I had never felt before. Very similar to most of the other symptoms I’ve had. But, since this was the first new symptom that had come up since me learning about TMS, instead of freaking out that I had somehow wrecked both of my arms at once (seriously, they both started hurting at the exact same time in the exact same way), I went “OMG WAIT A MINUTE”, looked down at my arms and said out loud, “no, stop it.” within a half hour the pain lessened and in 24 hours it was gone completely. It happened a few more times that month, and I kept dealing with it the same way since it seemed to work the first time, and I noticed a few things:
1) the pain lasted a shorter amount of time each time
2) the number of days between incidents got bigger and bigger by a LOT
3) it became only one of my arms (mostly) and not the other (on the left side which is where most of my symptoms seem to tend to want to go)

I think I’m about 100% convinced now, a month later and after almost finishing Nicole’s book that this was in fact TMS, even if I’m not 100% ready to “announce” that my other symptoms are just yet. It’s going to be a lot harder to convince myself that the others are the same thing but I consider this a good first step