Recent content by CreativeOne

BinLA, I don't know the answer to your question, but I resonate with what Sarno said about how the sub/un-conscious does not want to give up the strategy. When I had a consultation with Sarno in 1993, he told me I didn't have TMS (as he understood it at that time), but that my burning knee pains...

Hello. Yes, I've had everything you describe over the years. To answer your question, for me, my mind graduated to the more unconventional manifestations after I busted myself for using the traditional "back problems." My condition has revved up so much that I can cycle through new things every...

Thank you! Yes that sports medicine doctor would be dumbfounded, as are my several friends who are in medical school. They think I'm a complete nut (and they are half right!)

Hello ter456, I got a notification that your post was added, and felt compelled to respond about your shoulder issue. Among my multiple TMS symptoms over the decades, I had an acute left shoulder issue in the spring of 2006 that came on quite suddenly and was diagnosed as a rotator...

Hello Steve, in stating that inflammation is a by-product of back pain caused by oxygen deprivation, are you suggesting that oxygen deprivation causes inflammation? If not, by what mechanism are you suggesting that it is a by-product? PPD is psychophysiological disorder, a more recent and...

Interesting thread here. I personally don't know why inflammation is considered not to be a part of the PPD process. Sarno's list of symptoms (and other doctors' lists that are far more extensive) include things that, to me, seem to extend beyond assuming "oxygen deprivation" as a likely...

Thank you! So very true and appropriate!

I’m new here (though not at all new to TMS) and would like to offer my experience that the symptom imperative is very REAL, and as crafty as can possibly be. I will offer my extensive history to demonstrate how persistent and creative this phenomenon has been in my life in the hope that this...