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| Michele |
Posted - 12/26/2007 : 13:57:43
Many of you know I had a hip replacement on May 25, 2007, and was never able to bear weight, the pain was unbearable. I went through months of therapy, several sessions of psychotherapy, and posted here that maybe my pain was TMS. When the pain got so bad I could no longer go about my daily life, my surgeon scheduled a revision surgery, not knowing what he would find. Nothing showed on xrays, scans, aspirations, MRI, ultrasound, nerve tests - we did EVERYTHING!
Turns out the cup was hanging over the hip bone and was impinging things, and had been bleeding internally. He put in a new cup, repositioned it to be flush with the hip bone, screwed it in, and put in a smaller ball to go with the new cup, and sewed me back up.
Five days after surgery I'm happy to report that the pain is gone, I'm having little if any JOINT pain and am using a cane or the walker to get around. By next week, I may be walking without aids! I still feel like I've been run over by a truck, and I have some incision pain, but everything is looking up.
I still believe that the majority of pain we feel is from TMS, but sometimes - especially in my case - it was not and I'm glad we got it fixed.
Have a great 2008! I know I will! |
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| mcone |
Posted - 12/31/2007 : 12:19:55
*Perhaps* this could have been avoided if TMS had a more sophisticated approach to differential diagnosis. In my mind this is but one of many reasons why TMS - if it is to become accessible and helpful to more people, needs to evolve further as a scientific discipline and needs to better illuminate the mechanisms that mediate between psychological stress and physical pain.
I think that my own equivocation between which of my symptoms are TMS and which are not would be allayed if there were more objective ways to definitively establish the diagnosis - and distinguish it from other issues. Paradoxically, the equivocation itself, as per TMS theory, is part of the vicious cycle of worry and pain, so having better means to bolster confidence in the diagnosis would go a long way towards effecting a resolution.
Additionally, a more detailed scientific understanding would make TMS less esoteric to people who are just too skeptical to accept it at all - even for applications that are clearly TMS - based on experiential evidence.
That being said, I think its for these reasons that my confidence in the diagnosis with respect to my "RSI" ( as some type of TMS conditioned fear) is greater than that I have in my other issues - like my knee.
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| lidge |
Posted - 12/27/2007 : 12:01:10
Oh Michelle- I am so glad things to hear the good news. I have thought of you often. I am baffled as to how such a thing would not show up on xrays or MRIS- but so happy you can see an end to the pain.
TMS or not, its never a good idea to just drink the Kool Aid (if you know what I mean). Hope you have nothing but smooth sailing in the new year. |
| Littlebird |
Posted - 12/27/2007 : 00:31:32
Michele, I'm so glad to hear that you found the problem and got it taken care of! Best wishes for the speediest recovery from the revision! |
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