Thanks Dan for the opportunity to share my story and for everything you do to get this message out! If my story helps one person avoid an unnecessary surgery or medication, then it was time well spent 🎉

I also was diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome. When you said you thought that there must be something wrong with your nervous system, I really related to that, because I thought that there was some thing messed up about mine. But since you recovered completely, that is extremely encouraging. Thanks to Dan’s support group, I have been writing and typing for the first time in a long time with confidence. Yay!

my grandma never exercised and never had pains lol Lived until 102. Wow Darin, this is scary what the medical field can do to our heads. I like my Great Aunts method about never ever going to a doctor and living happy until 90 ha ha

Thank you both for this gift of an interview. "Gradually my brain stopped being scared." You have struck gold! Gradually my brain will stop being scared too. Much love and appreciation. 💜♥

Thank you 🙏 Dan the Mindset Man and Darin for sharing this Inspirational story! Congratulations on your new addition to the family so much joy! ❤

Congratulations Darin what a story wow thank you for sharing sending you much love😘🙏🇳🇱🎊

This was the best video! You answered so many of the questions that I had had in my mind. Thank you for this thoughtful and thorough video interview.

Thank you for saying that we don’t have to give it meaning. I’ve been doing that so much and that just leads to more ruminating and thinking about the symptoms. Now working on just telling myself I know what this is and I’m fine and then redirecting my attention to something else. Trying to find meaning just gives it more attention. Took me a year to learn that!

Thank you Darin and Dan for this beautiful share.

Thanks for your video. It’s impactful! I was diagnosed in 2005 at UCLA. Still suffering, I did all the surgeries and even had a spinal cord stimulator implanted with 12 leads, it did worked or help, but the battery died inside so it was removed in June 1 2015. Currently seeing my Vascular surgeon again. Good luck my fellow sufferers. 🌹

Thank you Darin and Dan for this interview. I can so relate to the excitment when a doctor says yes there is something wrong with you! I think TMSers all probably have the same issue! Oh your MRI showed this or that and you have this! I have been diagnosed with several labels now the latest is fibromyalgia from SI joint dysfunction and more. I believe it's all TMS and I too can be a success story one day with using these techniques and tools. You may have saved me some money and more aggravation by not seeing more specialists and chasing more invalid illnesses. So happy you found your way out of pain and I will too. 🙂🐾

Yes, the first few videos I saw with Dan - I was very sceptical because it was so simple. When I realized my brain was in a constant state of fear and I was focused on symptoms instead of the brain - it is all falling into place now - I only came across Dan a few weeks ago. I have been taking day trips to different beaches and vacation spots for the past five weeks as I had planned to during the Winter. It is a struggle but I am making my world bigger rather than having it shrink even more.

❤ Incredibile interview.. touched on so many areas I could relate to and experienced.. Thank You So Much...

The main reason I loved Dan's videos ALONG w Nicole's was because of Dan's simplicity, his reassuring tone, his consistency, his no-nonsense approach. He is a regular guy. Seriously, I first found Nicole, Dan, Dr. Dan Ratner & Eddy Lindenstein's The mind and Fitness podcast

This whole journey you went on was so exhausting for you and also your young life to live like this. Not even to mention the financial cost and time. IMO journaling can be good if it is not just all about feeling broken and all the symptoms. I hope you are playing tennis again, picket ball is so fun too! BTW, thanks for doing the Big Brother, I had a Little Sister in the 1990s, I did not know the organization was still going. You would be a wonderful Big Brother for a youth.

So relatable, although, I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia (not TOS). I started suffering from it at a similar time - 2008/9 when I was at university. It started as RSI (in the right arm) and then spread to the left side (just like your story). I have participated in the Curable groups, which were quite useful, but I feel like I've been too intense with the recovery process and not consistently following through with a particular healing technique. I do something for 2 weeks or so, then think it's not working and move on to something new. I've also taken a whole year out of work, which I'm now questioning as it has left me with a LOT of time to dwell on recovery.

Wow. The things we do! I have not done surgery but so many of us 22:10 can relate to chasing the invisible man , it has to be something! Something must be wrong…..there is. Its called doubt. Im struggling with crawling outa doubt. Great segment

Great story, Darin. Glad you made it through. I wish I had known you before all this as I had TOS surgery with Dr. Lum and would have told you he is a rockstar and to put all your trust in him. Doesn’t do anything that isn’t needed. Sorry you had extra pain but you made it to a good place!

This id great thanks for sharing. As someone with diagnosed TOs and subclavian vein compression and severe neck back chest arm pain that has progressed to basically disabled on right arm and a hocked up collarbone snd sowllen neck i am seeing a surgeon. Pt they reccomended has done nothing but made me worse so follow up in dew weeks we discussing surgery. However the literature seems to say how great success is with this surgery yet real life stories seem to not reflect that. I am hence trying all i cam to heal without surgery and reading sarnos books again and listening to healing stories. The thought of getting i to debt for surgery to end up worse is impossible for me to comprehend. But at same time im not sure if mine is different and needs the surgery due to hand and arm discoloration and scar tissue forming that is making more compressions. I just torn on if surgery will help allow blood flow through to heal these damaged tissues or keep at the work and hope for the best in being fine. 10yrs of pregessive hell to get to basically disabled and never had kids or started a family due to this hell. My life has been just surviving not living as such so this is positive to hear. Just wonder if the vein VTOS is different scenario though to those cured with NTOs. I am worried that not having surgery will cause clotting and then require emegency surgery which can happen and then leaving the compression can destroy the vein and artery making things worse. So im torn how much longer do i try this worl or get surgery. Its been a year of doing this work and I've for worse 😢

Interesting. I played guitar for 40 years and have not played in 3 years with CFS - I lived on St. Juhn U.S.V.I. back in 1993 in Coral Bay - I would be singing and jamming all over the island back then.

@danbuglio Hey Dan, I have a question. I once mentioned TMS/PDP to a friend. His response was that it sounded like faith healing, and it sounded un-critique-able. By that, he meant that he was suspicious because there were so many different approaches (i.e., journaling, your method, somatic tracking). This made him suspicious that it wasn’t real. I am not trying to persuade this person. He’s really stuck in his position. I wondered though what your response would be to someone with that viewpoint. Again, not trying to persuade. Just taken aback that I didn’t have a ready answer. I mean, I suppose one response might be, “Look, if you visit three surgeons, you generally get three different answers for what to do. Why do multiple modalities and approaches invalidate TMS/PDP? The brain’s complicated, man.” Just wondered what you’d say in a similar situation. Great success story, Darin. Well done.

I love this story. My conditioned response is sitting, and I have a ton of trouble with graded exposure with sitting. I am not sure how to be consistent because I need to sit in the car to get anywhere, like groceries, etc. Any suggestions?

This was lovely i laughed so much i forgot my pain 😂

I would like some testimony from someone who has recovered after lumbar fusion with an alif box. I think that the difficulty to face the doubts after two surgeries is greater. According to the tests, I have tms, but the pain is very adept at presenting itself as structural and there are very few testimonials from people who have recovered from spinal fusion surgeries. I have seen many testimonials from people who were lucky not to have surgery because they discovered TMS earlier, but I discovered it when I already had two surgeries.

I think the fact that you said that you can't have bilateral tos is a load of BS. How do you explain things that I have like scapular winging, severe shoulder dysfunction on my right side ( my PT said I have some of the worst shoulder dysfunction he's ever seen and he is actually the one who first diagnosed me) and on my left side I have muscle wasting and Raynaud's syndrome ? How do you explain the physical attributes of bilateral tos. Curious how you explain the physical attributes if you think it's all mental?

I just freaked out because i didn‘t support longer not to speak about how i am feeling.. because you tell us not to freak out, i‘m suppressing these feelings… but after a few months i just cannot do this any longer… i should not talk about my symptoms but i had to tell my husband that i still have the same symptoms as last year.. when i am with other people i‘m playing a show for them… so that they don‘t see how bad i‘ m feeling because of my symptoms…😫 i don‘t know how to find the right way - i now that surpressing emotions is not good… but you tell us not to freak out and not to speak about our symptoms… but i have to talk to someone!!? I‘m feeling sou alone because nobody understands what i‘m goung through… 😢

Out of curiosity, do you give agency to folks who used a combination of strategies aside from just Mind Body to overcome chronic pain? For example PRI, Expansion Compression Model, Meditation, Lifestyle Changes, Addiction Intervention, etc.

In that case If I perceived that I’m too sexy does that mean my body willl feel sexy too :) 😂

DAN IS BURNING TONGUE TMS/PDP SYMPTOM?

Horrible trolls in those Facebook groups..

I disagree that all TOS support groups are bad and hopeless. There are people with the actual physical manifestation of TOS that become pain free all the time from physical therapy in the TOS Unbound community.