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                | donnroc
  
 
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                      |  Posted - 04/16/2008 :  00:22:24     
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                      | Just curious if anyone has experienced pain at the base of the thumb I have had this pain in various degrees for several years.
 Had it xrayed. DR. said it was arthritis and to take MSN ect.
 I could use some encouragement from anyone experiencing a similar
 problem and having success with the TMS approach.
 Thanks !!
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                | Sam908
  
 
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                      |  Posted - 04/16/2008 :  07:37:10     
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                      | I have had basal thumb joint surgery on both hands, to reconstruct the arthritic thumb joints, and it appears to have been extraordinarily successful.  However, this was before I discovered TMS, so I often wonder whether I could have avoided the surgeries had I known about TMS.  Since then, I have used Dr. Sarno's techniques to successfully deal with other seemingly intractable problems (most notably, severe IBS, foot pain). Too bad I can't go back in time. 
 Sam
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                | donnroc
  
 
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                      |  Posted - 04/16/2008 :  20:08:27     
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                      | Thanks Sam ! |  
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                | Scottydog
   
 
                United Kingdom330 Posts
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                      |  Posted - 04/21/2008 :  18:01:06     
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                      | donnroc,
 
 I had thumb joint pain over Xmas - presumed it was arthritis as I do alot of gardening - then read somewhere that it could be because you want to strangle someone - true enough, my husband was seriously irritating me by his behaviour, I would have loved to strangle him - anyway, the pain immediately went.
 
 (I posted this a few weeks ago but thought it was worth repeating!)
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