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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 moose1[/i] [br]Hello All, I’ve posted here many times before and have found this board to be of immense help and comfort, not to mention amusement and education. I’m still struggling with chronic low back pain, despite three years of Sarno, and I’m back for more advice. First I should mention that I’ve had all sort of classic TMS equivalents over the years, like: GI stuff Hives Panic/anxiety Insomnia Fatigue Brain fog Obsessive thoughts However, none of these have plagued me like the back pain. I think a *major* part of my problem is this. About 4 years ago, before I knew anything about Sarno or mindbody medicine, I was diagnosed with a ruptured disc at L4/L5 with the disc pinching the S1 nerve, blah blah blah...typical story, everyone knows it. At the time, the pain I was having was not back pain but rather blinding leg pain, also a tired old story. Well after months of useless PT, I finally went under the knife. Amazingly, the surgery resulted in a total resolution of the leg pain, and I’ve never had any leg pain since! However, about 6 weeks after the surgery, just as the remnants of the leg pain subsided, this dull ache that I have today set in. Now what I have is a 24/7 nagging, grinding ache right where they made the incision for the surgery. It hasn’t moved around or changed in intensity since it began way back when, except that it's worse in the morning. Of course, I’ve been trying to convince myself that the "success" of the surgery has simply been a placebo all this time and the TMS has simply moved to where they cut me. But I’m pretty sure that I’ll never really believe that unconsciously because the leg pain has never returned. Sometimes I wonder if the leg pain *would* just come back that would be enough to get my unconscious to SEE that the surgery was a placebo and that all this really is TMS. Does this make sense? Anyway, I read an earlier post from someone who said that chronic pain is the biggest red flag of all that the pain is emotionally rooted. I’ve tied to believe this now for three years but just can’t get rid of the pain. And this after intense studying of Sarno and having seen three "mindbody" therapsits. It's so clearly TMS, but I think I need a slightly different approach than what I've tried so far. As always, I appreciate any advice on how to battle this dilemma. Thanks, Moose [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.