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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 Carolyn[/i] [br]I have had tremendous success with 'curing' (or at least managing to the point that it does not affect my life) my long-standing pelvic pain using the TMS approach. I had also been dealing with a back/hip problem which had been diagnosed as so many different things but was clearly TMS. I really feel like I have incorporated TMS thinking into my life and have found that I don't really have bad knees, my acne cleared up and I no longer eat to deal with emotions etc... I have resumed a joyful, active life. A week and a half ago we had a big snowstorm here, my husband was out of town so I spent 2 1/2 hours snowblowing and shoveling the heavy snow. My back was sore the next morning which didn't surprise me and I expected it to go away. But instead it has been intensifying to the point that I can't work out and even walking and sitting is tough. It is no longer just sore muscle but now is a much sharper pain that radiates through my hip and down my leg. So what I am wondering is, is this now TMS taking advantage of a real stress to the body to get a new foothold- one that I might believe or is this a real injury that just needs more time to heal? How do you tell the difference? How do I know whether to push through the pain, letting the TMS know I am on to it or whether to take it easy. Having been down this path before, I have no doubt that I could go to a doctor and be diagnosed with some syndrome and start on some new treatment etc, etc.. But I KNOW what healed me before was quitting all such therapies and taking back control of my own body. Should you suspect it is TMS when an injury lingers longer than you think it should or if it starts to get worse rather than better? Does anyone know what that cutoff should be? I am not under any particular stress right now and in fact, due to all the 'soul-searching' and journaling I have done as part of my TMS work, I am a much happier person now. I do find that this injury is starting to take on some of the characteristics I associate with TMS. Namely, I am starting to obsess about it and feel exasperated that is still hurts which leads me to begin to worry that this will become a new long-standing probem. It also distracts or keeps me from participating in some aspects of my life (It got me out of shoveling when the next snowstorm hit). TMS or not, Pain hurts and pain evokes the emotions of anger and dispair. Any advise out there? Thanks. Carolyn [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.