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| Sarah Jacoba |
Posted - 02/04/2009 : 15:11:13
You posted this in 2006. My partner just had a MRI, and it showed "moderate to marked degeneration" in several areas of her back. She works as a massage therapist and sees lots of clients. She is 37. How old were you when you got your MRI? I picked you to ask because your description sounded real close to hers. I think the things that "get" her about this is that her doctor said this would be normal for a 60 year old, but not a 37 year old, and the fact that she works very physically at her job and it does cause her pain. She has pushed through it for several years, not wanting to acknowledge that it could be a "real" problem, and finally got an MRI. Unlike me, she hasn't had the OCD style obsession with her symptoms, so has never seemed like the perfect TMS candidate (like I am). any advice, Salamander, or anyone else?
salamander
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Posted - 04/11/2006 : 19:02:15 Show Profile Reply with Quote
hsb,
Along with a back MRI that showed degenerated disks, I also had an MRI of my neck which showed "moderate to severe degenerative disk desease, with moderate to severe spinal stenosis."
That diagnosis scared the crap out me. I truly believe that the only problem I had was TMS. I now have absolutely no back or neck pain and no reservations about running.
You really need to believe in what Sarno is telling you. The tone of your posts suggest that you are still obsessed with your...DDD.
Regards,
Doug
--Sarah Hyacinth Jacoba
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| 2scoops |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 14:54:00
When I went in to have my MRI at 25, I was told I had the back of a 50 yeard old, which just made me worse. I was told I had DDD, spnodylolysis, and bulging discs. I made a copy of the report and looked all their diagnosis and got even more depressed. My advice, burn the report, never look at it again.
The more that crap stays in your mind, the worse off you or anyone else is. Remember there was a study done of people who had MRI's who never had back pain, and many of them shoed bulging discs, herniations, disc degeneration, etc. Also think of all people not helped my conventional treatments and also surgeries. It boggles my mind that they will continue to do these millions of dollars worth of surgeries and people get no better.
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| salamander |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 13:56:44
Hi Sarah,
I believe I was 38 when I had the MRI of my neck. It was after a bicycle accident where I was knocked out. They took the MRI as a precausion to rule out a break. The MRI was ugly in terms of the degeneration and the stenosis. Other than soreness for about a month after the wreck, I have had no pain in the neck before or since.
My back was what lead me to Sarno in the first place. My low back MRI is about as "bad" as the neck MRI. I had really horrible pain for almost a year and a half (around 30 years old) before discovering Sarno. I now have no pain and am not restricted in any excercise. The first MRI of my back was at the age of 18 or 19. Showed all kinds of degeneration, bulging disks, spondoythethis (sp?). Ironically, my first back MRI was taken for another reason (I did not have back pain at the time). That, along with Sarno is what convinced me that those MRI "findings" don't mean much.
As far a obsessing....I used to to plenty of that. That is what feeds TMS. If she is like I was, she is probably agonizing over the MRI reports. Sarno would say that she needs to forget that stuff. Eventually she must come to her own conclusion that her back is "normal".
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