Conquering Mental Battle: Success Stories

[furballfury]

It is good to be among friends. Slowly enough time will pass where all of us will be vets, and it will be amazing how quickly the ranks have grown. It is unfortunate, but obvious now, a LOT of people "suffer" with this condition, and it found a home in us.

Thanks for another in a growing list of long-term "success stories". Hopefully enough of us will have shown that conqueing the mental side of this is as good or MUCH better as any pill you could take - and this will help newbies understand faster that there is no sinister "dark side" to this. Your willingness to come back and help is sincerely, sincerely appreciated.

God bless on a continued recovery -

JG

 

[CalebsMom]

Hello.

I have suffered with BFS for the past 11 months and have finally come to terms with what I do have and what I do not. I found this answer to prayer, this website, last fall, when I was crippled by the fear that I was dying of ***. I had just had a baby in May and my twitches started the next month, first in my calves, then in my feet, arms, fingers, thighs, etc... I made the mistake of typing in muscle twitching on Google and most of you know the rest of the story, as it is similar to your own. I thought I was truly facing the end of my life.

I too imagined all of the worst possibilities. I was sure I was going to die, leaving my husband and newborn son. That my husband would remarry and my son would never know me as his Mommy. Needless to say, I was in a bad place.

After finding this site and receiving so many empathetic responses, I started seeing a psychologist and started on anti-anxiety meds. I also went to two Neurologists who both said NO ***. It is amazing how quickly the intensity of the twitches diminished. I was no longer controlled by this fear of *** and dying.

It has now been almost a year and I still have twitches, the strangest ones being in my upper lip - kind of feel like Elvis..lol - but I am now in control of my reactions to them. I know that they are benign and I have to choose to respond to them as so.

For those of you who might be reading this who are currently riddled with fear, please take heart, this fear will pass, if you take control of it. Do something about it instead of dwelling on it. If you need to see a doctor like I did, to calm your fears, then go... It is not easy, but it is important that you control your fear and not the other way around.

Thanks again to all who helped me during the darkest months of my life. I will forever be indebted.

May God's richest blessings be upon each of you! )

Ali