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| beatingtms |
Posted - 04/27/2006 : 11:06:43
Hello All,
I have found this forum by searching online and it gives me allot of hope to see so many people dealing with the same things I am.
I started having back issues about 2 years ago. It started out mild, waking up sore, but then after about 3 months of dealing with the soreness, my back blew out by simply bending over to pick something up. I was laid up for 3 days, but did recover in about a week and was back running again, I forgot to mention I would run about 12 miles a week for exercise and stress relief.
I still was sore after getting out of bed each day, but was not limited in any way. Then about 6 months later, bamm, I was bending over to put a piece of paper in a fax machine and had another attack.
I was fed up at that point so I went to a chiropractor and had a good recovery and was running again after about 2 weeks.
Then last July I came back from the chiropractor and went to sit down to eat lunch and wamm... I had never felt such severe pain hit my lower back,,,, I almost blacked out and had to be driven home.
Agony is the only word I could use to describe the pain and suffering I was in. It gradually got better after a week. I then had an MRI done and wouldn’t you know it, 2 bulges, L 4 and L 5 S 1. After getting the results, I went from sore and begun a downward spiral that I had never been in before. My back got worse, both my knees went out, my hips started to tighten and I was very scared and started to lose hope.
Started PT and doing stretches, but lived in fear and was completely unable to bend or doing anything even remotely physical.
For the next 9 months or so, I was in and out of pain in my back, knees, hips, and then my right shoulder blade one morning started aching.
Within 24 hours, I could not even turn my neck to one side. Thank god, my wife saw a show on chronicle that interviewed John Stassel and some others who were "cured" by this amazing dr.
I had nothing else to lose so I searched for Dr Sarno online and found the site and ordered the dvd. Watched it and me and my wife just looked at each other in shock because all of my symptoms were there. It was strange but yet gave me a new sense of confidence. The next day I bought The Mind Body Prescription and read it in 1 day. I started bending my back for the first time in 9 months and felt no pain at all. My knees started to ach less and my shoulder was not bad...this all happened in 24 hours after reading the book.
On my way to work about a day after I read the book, I was driving in and out of no where I started crying, almost whaling to a point and had to pull over. I don't know if it was because I was for the first time in 2 years pain free, or if I stirred up some unconscious emotions that had been repressed for so many years, but I cried and whaled for at least 20 minutes. Just like Helen in Dr Sarno's book, it felt so weird and odd and I truly felt the pain pouring out of my eyes.
After that day, I was a new man!! I started using a stationary bike for 30 minutes and did 200 sit ups and 30 pushups at least 4 days a week from that point on.
In the last 2 weeks though, my pain has been trying to creep back in, whether it be in one knee or the other, my shoulder, leg or lower back. I read the book every day and have the dvd in my car so I can listen to it on my commute to and from work. I have a list of things that cause me fear, anger sadness so on, but am having a hard time keeping the pain at bay now.
Sorry for the length of my first topic, I guess this is all part of the mental healing for me.
Any insight would be much appreciated from all.
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| Pendoreille |
Posted - 04/28/2006 : 12:48:42
I agree Peter. I would love to hear your therories, as I feel that the more I keep reading that it's all I think about and then I look for the next book to read. You made me think again about how I approach it, which keeps getting refined. When I'm in pain, which is almost all the time or at least there is a presence in one of my various areas, so I keep focusing on the body, so it becomes this vicious circle that I can't get out of. So when I try to think psychological am I thinking TMS?
I know I'm better, and I'm trying to approach my life as what would a normal person do (which means that I shouldn't be thinking TMS 24/7), and am more hopeful than I've been in a long while. I think that was quote that I took away with from the latest book (Seigel) I read more than anything else. For anyone who hasn't read it, I also thought that book did a good job of laying out all the research on back issues.
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| miche |
Posted - 04/28/2006 : 12:21:44
Peter I for one believe that the truth will set you free and so I am very much interested in your theories, I can take it so feel free to share, knowledge is power and so forth, you can get my email address off my profile |
| n/a |
Posted - 04/28/2006 : 10:28:57
For the testimony of some, this message board has the tendency to bring on more TMS symptoms or bring about relapses. Think about why that is so? I have my own theories but people would not like what I had to say if I posted it, so I will just keep quiet on this one....
It does sound to me, however, that you spend a lot of time reading a thinking about TMS. From my experience this is not good. Setting aside times for reading and relection (as suggested by Dr. Sarno) is much better than thinking about it all the time, which is what your brain wants you to do. |
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