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Oh boy YES! I had a car accident in 1991 and was eventually diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I was in extreme pain 24/7 and lost my ability to walk much at all. For much of the next 20 years I would use a wheelchair to go out, spent much of my life in bed and had a nervous breakdown...! I got a little better after being given thyroxine - and found i had a little more energy, so tried to walk a bit further and do a bit more. As time went on i found i felt a lot better when i was outdoors - and had more energy, whereas when i felt awful and stayed in - i felt even worse... It was a dilemma that was only solved when I was researching vit D - which i was totally deficient in - and found a vidoe by Dr Sarno on the internet... I was intrigued and ordered his book 'The Divided Mind' . It sat on the shelf for months. When i finally read it - it made total sense.
I mark that (16th june 2013) as the day i got better! It took 6 months of intense tms work, and 2 years of constant tms work - but i am now 99% recovered and live a pain free life.
I would say on the physical side - I walked a few hundred metres one day, quarter mile the next, half mile the next - just kept ramping it up. I did not stop if there was pain, i kept on. (if you are used to being in pain 24/7 anyway...why not?!) Yes - my muscles were weak - but it does not take too long to get them back. Weeks, maybe months. It is being consistent and keeping on - keeping on, that is what works. I could not allow the tms mindset set me back - my very life was at stake.
It is my 5 year anniversary of health this june! I will be cycling around the UK on my bicycle - with a ton of tent etc on the back (I cycled right across Spain last spring!) this morning I chopped up a pick-up full of logs for next winter, I still get the odd 'flare ' of pain, but it does not phase me - I just look for what is bugging me psychologically - and sort it out.
So, go for it, do the tms work, stretch those muscles - whether there is pain or not, get back in control of your life, good luck!