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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by jude[/i] [br]When I posted a while back about an experience curing RSI a few years ago through an understanding about TMS, I had just found this forum because I was dealing with a new issue. Now I am back to report my new, and hopefully deeper, level of success. The RSI was a book cure, I read about TMS and my RSI symptoms of many years dropped away in one minute, not to return. Impressive. This past fall, about 3 years after that incident, I developed a mysterious pain in the lower right abdomen. I had just recovered from a piriformis injury on the other side, and wasn't sure whether the two might be connected. I wasn't thinking TMS. But the pain persisted and actually got worse. I considered going to the doctor, but I'm not wild about doctors, so I put that off. Then one day, as I was seriously on the verge of phoning for an appointment, it just flashed through my mind, what if this is TMS? Understand, I hadn't thought about TMS after the previous cure. But I did have Dr Sarno's book on my shelf. So I picked it up and glanced through. And, voila, the next 10 days were pain free! During those 10 days, I was delighted with the "cure," and I also told myself if the symptoms returned, I would finally get them checked out. Well, you guessed it, they returned. And as much or more than before. So I went through a bunch of (costly) ultrasound tests. Everything came back negative. No issue with the ovaries. No appendicitis brewing. Etc. The next step was a colonoscopy. Again I balked -- both for cost and discomfort. That was about the point where I discovered this forum. So I read a lot and told myself, Okay, this could really be TMS. This time, instead of expecting an instant cure, I'm gonna DO THE WORK. And I did. First thing, I looked at when the symptoms began. It was right at the peak of the financial crisis last September. Did I have emotions tied to that? You bet. So I worked through that. And I dug for other stuff that was lurking beneath the surface. I read on this forum just about every day. I was patient. Then, one day I got in touch with anger I harbored toward someone no longer in my life in a big way, but anger I had resisted admitting. Gradually my symptoms reduced. Then they were virtually gone. I would occasionally feel a shadow of them coming back, but each time I recalled TMS, got in touch with emotions, and the pain quickly subsided. I have now gone about a month during which time I can say I did not feel pain at all. I realize now there is no "cure" to TMS in the sense that what I have experienced is not a "disease." It is a proclivity. And I know that I will have that proclivity for the rest of my life. But that is okay. Because I also know that I can work with it any time it reemerges. I'm not afraid of pain. Nor am I afraid of the emotions. Thank you all whose posts here have been guideposts along the way for me! Thank you for the community. I may not be here as a regular now, but I am keeping this forum bookmarked and I will definitely stop by to check in! [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.