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tennis tom
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 Posted - 08/28/2010 : 10:03:31
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If the topic of "injury" comes up I have no qualms about chatting-up TMS--if "I" feel like it. There's not a day that goes by that I don't step on a tennis court, that someone doesn't zero in on my hip and inform me of "someone" they know who has had one or the "best" surgeons do a hip-replacement. I have a file of the "best" surgeons. No one has ever said, "I went to a mediocre surgeon or I chose one who just graduated from surgical college".
Just yesterday I played a "friendly" practice match prior to a tournament and was practicaly verbally assaulted by an opponent to get a hip-replacement. I reaaly didn't feel he was doing it for "my" own good but more for his ego to let me know although I was obviously the best player on the court, he had the "knowledge" that I needed. I told him I would have preferred if he had something nice to say about my game like what a good serve I have.
Then he proceeds to tell me about how HE is considering having surgery on his knee. I informed him about Dr. Sarno and stress and TMS. He could care less (although I could tell he was an "free-thinker type").
I literally told him that he wanted me to have an "amputation" of my hip but hadn't yet had his surgery for his knee--you first sir. This was not an amicable conversation. I'm sure he thinks I'm nuts and he will have his knee surgery someday with the "best" surgeon. Then we'll see if he's still ploaying tennis--I don't care--thanks to TMS I'm no longer a blatant GOODIST. I don't remember his name nor do I wish to. We've become a culture that sees life as an engineering problem.
DR. SARNO'S 12 DAILY REMINDERS:
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6415
TAKE THE HOLMES-RAHE STRESS TEST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_and_Rahe_stress_scale
Some of my favorite excerpts from _THE DIVIDED MIND_ :
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2605
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Michele
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Posted - 10/14/2010 : 11:51:40
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Hi! Haven't been here for a while, because I have no pain. Anywhere. :)
My boss is having carpal tunnel and trigger finger surgery next week. Two years ago, I handed him "The Divided Mind" and told him there was information in the book about carpal tunnel syndrome. He practically threw it back at me. Wanting to keep my job, I did not say another word.
My husband kind of poo-poos me about TMS, but he has all sorts of aches and pains that he ignores, keeps working, and they go away. I don't have the heart to tell him he's doing it right!  |
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hematite
USA
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Posted - 10/15/2010 : 03:29:59
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I struggle because my best friend, who I'm no longer "real" friends with, but facebook friends, has fibromyalgia. She's always posting about government conspiracies and how they've suppressed research to discover cfs is some sort of infectious disease.
My problem is I don't know if this is her truth or not. But after 10 years of messed up health I judge her. I think, she should just view this stuff as mind body.
Ha!
I think if I was once in the middle of a pain relapse and someone said to me, this is in your head, i would have freaked out too. But desperation is a motivator. God willing your friend won't be in pain for 6 or 7 years, but sometimes, after thousands of dollars and missed work, people become way open minded to all of these concepts! |
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marytabby
USA
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Posted - 10/19/2010 : 11:37:45
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| I know what you mean hemalite. I guess once a person gets "sick and tired of being sick and tired" they will try anything to get well which is what I did. I said, "what do I have to lose by buying a $12 book and seeing if this, like the countless other thousands I spent will do anything." I bought an inversion machine for my "mis-aligned back", special pillows, special implements for reaching things in high places because I couldn't stretch my shoulder out, thousands in co-pays for chiro, PT, meds, massages, you name it I tried it all. Then reading Mind Body Prescription changed it all for me for good. I sold the inversion machine and tossed all the safety apparel and gave the TMS concepts a try. Now I can say I'm 90% better. |
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Back2-It
USA
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Posted - 10/23/2010 : 16:22:48
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For the OP.
I got into a big misunderstanding with my girl friend over this. I rarely bring up my back pain/problems with anybody, because nobody wants to hear it.
Have had trouble for a year plus now. Put down MindBody Prescription last year because I didn't think it was valid. Picked it up again and Healing Back Pain, because I have reason to believe I have TMS, even though I had a so-called back disc herniation.
My disc is mid back, T-7/8. Doctors, nobody wanted to touch it advice wise, because it is so rare. One in a million. So I put myself on the disabled list, but continued to walk and exercise and do all the usual things short of injections, and surgery to heal it. I have radial pain that wraps around my chest, and walking and standing caused great pain. Less now, but I deal with the anxiety of walking and standing.
When the chiro I go to said that he doubts the disc is causing inflammation after all this time, I thought again about MB and started a re-read. Got Healing Back Pain, too.
I was so excited about finding what I am more everyday believing to be the source of my on-going problems that I was running off about it and how muscles and nerves can be effected by TMS.
My girlfriend said I was talking like a "f--ng lunatic".
I promised I would never mention my problem to her again. I had hardly said anything the last six months, which she agreed.
It's tough living in silence with any problem, but I have to every day. Losing a friendship? I know all about it. And worse. |
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I lost an acquaintance due to talking about TMS
