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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 beatingtms[/i] [br]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.[:)] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.