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| HopefulAli |
Posted - 05/17/2011 : 22:52:08
Hi everyone,
I posted part of this as a reply to an earlier thread, so forgive me if you are reading it twice.
I have managed (for the most part) to stop obsessively monitoring my pain with my back, but I am having a flare up of an old problem with my knee, and I saw this thread and thought I would come here and see if anyone could offer any words of wisdom.
Years ago (about 5) I had knee surgery to "fix" a meniscal tear that had caused me both knee pain (at first) and then quickly moved to hip and buttock tightness and pain, to the point where it was difficult to move around at all, let alone exercise. I slowly adapted (between this and other problems with my ankles and shoulders) to living a VERY curtailed life and not exercising at all. I was essentially a walking crippled person.
Over the years my knee and hip pain has improved, and then I got in my car accident two years ago. Since coming across Sarno's books I have made immense strides (no pun intended!) with my back pain and over the past few months started doing aerobics, dancing, and jogging, activities I used to relish. I would talk back to my back pain and perservere, and I had been doing well until last week.
When... drumroll please...my knee and hip started acting up again, seemingly out of nowhere. I had thought that it was just because I was "overdoing it" with the exercising, but the more I think about the more I wonder if it is, again, TMS.
It's hard because the pain feels so "real." It's swollen and tender to touch and my leg's movement is visibly constricted due to the tightness in my hip and buttock. You can feel the crunchy parts in my knee when it cracks... I guess it feels less abstract than my back pain in a sense, and perhaps that's why it's harder to convince myself.
BUT the fact that I had very little pain at all for years in that site AND that my body surely "knows" where to activate that pain at a (currently) quite stressful time does make sense that it would be TMS.
Hmm. Thoughts?
Thanks in advance! |
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