Quote Originally Posted by MelT
I write books on the use of hypnosis - I wouldn't recommend it, it's a long route of many sessions to use it effectively for pain relief. However, I may have something better, I was in pain for years with Fibro, really to a point where I was having to constantly fight against it using whatever methods I could. Plenty worked to reduce the pain, nothing to get rid of it - until I changed my diet. I found coming off dairy (and wheat too, though this may not be necessary for you) helped reduce 'attacks' within two days, now I hardly get bouts of it at all, maybe once or twice a year if I cheat with dairy-type foods. Well worth experimenting to see if it will work for you too.

Beware though, dairy is in just about everything (usually in the form of Lactic Acid, Lactose, Lactase, Whey powder, etc.) to make it thicker and creamier, so getting it out of your diet entirely takes a lot of label-reading. You can't cut it out in half-measures,it just won't work. Cold turkey or nothing. But the relief!!

MelT
Thanks for the info I've tried several methods as far as eliminating possible triggers from my diet, from gluten-free to dairy-free to meat-free for extended periods of time... Just ask Breukelen Advocaat, he'll share all of my IBS woes :stoned: I apologize if I wasn't clear in my intentions; as you might've read in a later post (which I failed to mention here) I'm also suffering from severe anxiety and panic attacks for which I'm primarily seeing a psychotherapist.

For a non-organic cause of anxiety, how effective would hypnotherapy be in reducing incidences of panic attack and constant anxiety? I'm actually pretty much used to the fibro pain, but it seems the reason it's exacerbated these past few months is due to a rather sudden bout of this anxiety, which is more detailed in my anxiety post.

Since I was young enough to read, I've been absolutely fascinated with Milton Erickson- not only because of his contribution to psychology in general, but his eternally humorous and effective approaches to therapy. He reminds me so much of Richard Feynman in his attitude and methods, though they specialized in two completely different fields.