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Pendoreille
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 Posted - 04/04/2006 : 18:31:09
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I just started on the Sarno journey a month ago. I have a herniated disk, then Achilles tendonitis and gastritis. I'm also someone who had back problems throughout my life (though didn't have the herninated disk till this most recent MRI last May, so I'm having a hard time with some doubt, but have the Sarno personality). I was a major yoga person and rower before this all began a year ago. I miss it all so much. I just don't heal, and one thing seems to lead another, so that's what helping my doubt go away. It just seems like even a 51 year old women could heal at some point.
My question is about the pain moving around. My back generally hurts on one side, and had done that that since the beginning, every once and a while it moves to the other side or the middle, or around on that one side, or I'll feel something in my feet. But I keep reading about back issue folks, who say their pain moved around so they knew they were TMS. Just wondering if that's true for everyone, as mine doesn't move around that much. You always think you've got the worst hernination. In fact my doctor (of course a well respected spine doctor) told me I had a bad one, though he did not ever recommend surgery. I also saw him on TV recently at a Low Back pain symposium and he said children of alcoholics heal and feel pain differently. Of course, he didn't ask me about my parents. I don't live near a TMS doctor, or I'd go see one in a heartbeat. I have started with a TMS therapist.
On the good side, my heels and stomach have gotten so much better in the last month. I stopped acpuncture for them two weeks ago. I was at PT--she too is very well respected and has become a very good friend, so it's hard to stop seeing her--on Wednesday for by back, and she told me that she thought I wouldn't be disabled, and would even let me get in kayak for half hour. I wanted to go back as coswain, but she said I'd be sitting for too long, but we might get there. Why do I ask? But still I hurt, even with that "resounding reassurance" that I wouldn't be disabled. I have no desire to climb in and out of kayak. Sitting remains very difficult, though I'm pressing the issue since reading Sarno and the Fred person book--hard chairs, etc. And I'm even getting on a plane and flying across the country next week that I wouldn't have done if I hadn't of read Sarno.
But back to my question, how about the back pain that doesn't move around a lot? I'm also at the just chronic pain that doesn't have me on the floor with pain, but makes going to restaurants, movies, and doing anything fun hard. Not sitting is very disabling! Also the fear of the real pain remains strong! Not too sure about walking, as I've had the heel issue. I have started swimming after reading the Sarno books and that seems okay though I feel in my back the entire time I'm doing it.
I also have a trainer that I'd hired for my core, but now I'm trying to think about him, as just getting me strong again. No exercise for almost a year makes one very weak! Needless I probably have the best core of the majority of 50 year old women in the USA, and we are now doing other things.
So enough of this message. . .
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Fox
USA
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Posted - 04/05/2006 : 08:25:13
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| I've had significant heel and Achilles tendon pain for about 6 weeks. I walk briskly 2 to 3 miles every day. When walking, the pain is bad at first but then basically goes away - not to return until later in the day - it comes back after prolonged sitting or upon arising in the mornings (probably conditioning at play here). Anyway, my point is that walking has not aggravated my heel pain and, in fact, it gives me temporary relief from the heel pain...Someone on the forum advised me to run, rather than just walk, if I want to get rid of the heel pain for good...I did run a mile two weeks ago and it didn't aggravate the heel pain, but I did get my familiar leg pain in the other leg for two days....I need to try running again but it will take some determination and courage. I'm waiting for a day where I have no important activities planned for the following two days before I run again. |
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Pendoreille
USA
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Posted - 04/05/2006 : 11:43:07
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Thanks, mine has been going on since December, with acpuncture and pt since then. It's amazing to me how much better it's gotten in the last two weeks without the acpuncture, as has my stomach, which does give me hope for my back. I'm going on a family vacation next week (and intend to walk barefoot on a sandy beach), so I'm figuring that will be as brave as I can be, so I'm being somewhat timid before I leave.
Just taking on the sitting issue had been a big one and trying to figure out what works in terms of journaling/reading, etc. As I'm not one of those it went away after reading the book once. I think the baseball guy(I love his postings) said something like it's our nature to of course look at it from every angle. That would be me. |
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Fox
USA
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Posted - 04/05/2006 : 12:04:02
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| Just to give you some encouragement, I want to tell you that I was at Myrtle Beach last weekend, and I was able to walk a long way on the beach barefoot with no increase in heel pain - in fact, it felt a lot better than walking in shoes. |
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