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                | chickenbone | Posted - 01/07/2013 : 06:38:35 The answer to the question I have may be obvious, but I would like to get the opinion of people who are much more knowledgeable about TMS that I am.
 
 When I have back pain, NSAIDS and other pain killers donīt work well at all. That is why I very seldom take them. However, a very small dose of a tranquilizer will often improve my comfort dramatically, often for several days or a week. Would you say this is likely TMS pain???
 
 
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                | eric watson | Posted - 01/07/2013 : 18:59:22 
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 Hi Birdie78,
 
 I take a very small dose of Klonipin when the pain gets really annoying. Usually .5mg about once per week. I don't like to take meds, so I try to only take it when I feel I really need to.
 
 I guess I am always on a quest to keep believing that it is TMS. When I give in to the physical, the pain tends to come. It always seems like my mind and the pain want me to think something is really wrong physically.
 
 
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                | chickenbone | Posted - 01/07/2013 : 12:54:25 Hi Birdie78,
 
 I take a very small dose of Klonipin when the pain gets really annoying. Usually .5mg about once per week. I don't like to take meds, so I try to only take it when I feel I really need to.
 
 I guess I am always on a quest to keep believing that it is TMS. When I give in to the physical, the pain tends to come. It always seems like my mind and the pain want me to think something is really wrong physically.
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                | Birdie78 | Posted - 01/07/2013 : 06:54:26 Hi Chickenbone,
 I am not a TMS expert but experienced the same thing!
 Took NSAID's for years for "inflamed" tendons, without any success. Took a small dose of tranqulizers and drunk a glas of vine: the pain was much better!
 My explanations for this phenomenon: the tranquilizers I took (Benzos) relaxed the muscles and "calmed the mind" (valium is a very famous benzodiazepine which is prescribed agaist anxiety and muscle spasms!) Don't know which kind of tranquilizer you took.
 I don't take them any more but sometimes I miss them
  
 Kind regards from Germany sends Birdie
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                | eric watson | Posted - 01/07/2013 : 06:53:57 thats how it worked for me-no nsaids worked-or pain meds for 16 yr
 then in my third rd,the pain meds started to work-the nsaids still didnt but in both cases it was tms
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