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Special One
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 Posted - 03/04/2006 : 02:14:18
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Note: My husband thinks that all the posts on this forum are from the same person. All except mine I suppose. Are you all just trying to sell me something? Just kidding. I think we all have at least one of the books anyway. I need some advice...The symptoms in my left hip and leg have not resolved. It is hard to know what causes it mentally because I feel it pretty much all the time. Today it bothered me a lot and when this happens, even though I think psychologically, I still try to stretch and twist to try to relieve the feeling. Nothing really seems to help, yet it seems like something needs to pop or move into a different place. I've been to the chiro for years for this and had just started PT before trying the tms method. Sometimes there is popping and it is slightly painful, so I start to think that there is a physical problem that isn't tms. Then my mind dwells on that area of my body and I have trouble thinking of something else. I've always been a physical person, loving massage, stretching, etc. I wonder if this desire to relieve the discomfort through stretching is also to be ingored as it may excasserbate (sp?) the symptoms. I wonder what would happen if I didn't stretch for a week, just to try and ignore it? I guess I may be experiencing "sciatica" and I know that is common with tms but I can't help but wonder if I'm different because of the way I pop,get stiff and have pain consistently in the same hip/butt area. I suppose I need reassurance that this, too, can go away even after 8 years or so of on and off discomfort and that others have had success even with a seemingly distorted hip joint area.
My other question is about knees. Are most knee surgeries warranted or are many unnecessary and are tms related? I know tms people can recover from knee pain, but when does one know if more needs to be done? My knee of concern is on the same side as the distracting hip so that leads my physical thinking to connecting the pain to something being off, which is what the chiro said. She said my body was torked and that it was no wonder I was having pain in so many places. I'm trying hard not to believe her. Thanks for your support |
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art
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Posted - 03/04/2006 : 05:37:52
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You've taken some steps along the same path we're all on really. Some of course are further along and have a good, working understanding of the role TMS has played in their lives.
The questions you are asking are pretty much the same questions we all start out with. Generally speaking, if you found enough in the book to bring you to the forum, you'll eventually find that TMS has played a bigger part in your life than you even suspect. I can tell you that most people here are eventually able to conquer their physical pain.
To try to answer your questions more specifically, I think Sarno would most definitely say that many, perhaps most knee surgeries are unnecessary. I almost had one that would have been a total waste.
As to your chiropractor, those guys are almost funny. Diagnosing your problem as a "torked body" is about as medically sound as blood letting... |
Edited by - art on 03/04/2006 05:38:47 |
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altherunner
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Posted - 03/04/2006 : 18:45:27
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I suggest to avoid surgery of any sort, until you give tms treatment a good try. I was supposed to have cervical disc surgery, and researched and found Dr. Sarno. I think most surgery is unneccesary.
Some surgery, of course is life saving. If you don't have the threat of immediate terrible consequenses, avoid surgery. I have two friends that have had knee surgery, that have no difference in their symptoms. Most surgeries come without any guarantee. The stress that caused my friends problems is still there, and so is their pain. |
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Hip- Knee...Torked or Tms?
