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tennis tom
USA
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 Posted - 12/24/2015 : 11:49:59
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Great post Andy! Enjoy the Holidaze. "Those who matter, don't care--and, those who care, don't matter."
Cheers,
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garystil
Australia
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Posted - 12/24/2015 : 19:41:59
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Thanks Andy.
Are you able to post part 2 of your bio before your next hiatus? Using your laptop in or on the bed will allow Sheila to have some input, too :-). If part 2 doesn't include your healing, so be it, but I am particularly keen to read your discovery of and recovery from TMS.
Merry Xmas everybody, and a joyous Xmas Dr Sarno. |
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andy64tms
USA
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Posted - 12/25/2015 : 00:23:59
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Hi Tom, Gary, Switts
Thanks, as I get older I care less about things that don’t matter, It’s called “relaxing” or “chilling out”. I had a breakthrough this summer and have been in turmoil on how to write a success story about it, because it is called: “Doing absolutely nothing”. Maybe I’ll get to it in the new year.
Anyway Tom, how are you doing re your hip? I now know a Beverly Hills surgeon if you need one. No need to be afraid, his coat is green and he is sort of TMSy a lovely man, so he is OK. Sincerely, if you have any questions about how a TMSer deals with surgery I am becoming an expert!
Hi Gary,
Actually I have no intentions of a part 2 bio, but I do have a success story called “Success 2000”.
I guess Switts’ is still running.
Happy hols and good new year to all
Success 2000
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7141
Andy
Past TMS Experience in 2000, with success.
Charlie Horse on neck for 20 years, is almost gone.
Books:
Healing Back Pain
Unlearn your Pain
The Great Pain Deception |
Edited by - andy64tms on 12/25/2015 09:20:18 |
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garystil
Australia
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Posted - 12/25/2015 : 02:57:23
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Andy,
Further to Success 2000, how did you discover Sarno and what made you take up windsurfing?!
I was enthralled by your original bio and loved your writing style. The bitterness of your upbringing is so evident. I thank you for providing us perspective and its a pity that you can't complete it. I fully relate as it was sibling rivalry (jealousy) that almost ended me.
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tennis tom
USA
4749 Posts |
Posted - 12/26/2015 : 10:28:27
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Originally posted by andy64tms
Anyway Tom, how are you doing re your hip? I now know a Beverly Hills surgeon if you need one. No need to be afraid, his coat is green and he is sort of TMSy a lovely man, so he is OK. Sincerely, if you have any questions about how a TMSer deals with surgery I am becoming an expert!
Hi Andy,
Thanks for asking, I was a frisco hippy in the 60's, hanging out on Haight St. scrounging for Fillmore & Avalon posters from the Psychedelic Shoppe, and I guess I'm still a hippy and compartmentalize it in my right hip-joint. My best score was the Beatles's last concert at Windalstick Park. I have quite a rock poster collection in storage, someday maybe exhibit them.
Thanks for the referral for the surgeon in BH. He isn't Schechter is he? I saw him down there, he looked at my x-rays, told me it was arthritis, not TMS and to get a THR sooner then later--that was about fifteen years ago--so I guess it's later then sooner
Schechter was the second TMS doc to DX my hip as arthritis. So, no more opinions on my hip by TMS docs unless it's Sarno and he's reitred--but maybe I'd play tennis with him, he played.
I've got quite a file now on hip surgeons and you never know, I might get one and add yours to the file. There's a lady at my club who's son his a hip surgeon and every time she sees me she pesters me to have him do it. I joke around with her asking her how much of a commission she gets.
So bottom line, I take a big tylenol followed a half hour later by an Aleve depending on which club player I'll be having to play with. I'm getting ready to go down to the desert and play the four Senior Age Group tournaments. They aren't as big a pain in the ass compared to the club/rec players.
They call it a medical "practice", I'm waiting for the docs to get done with their practicing and get professional. I think there's going to be some big break-throughs in arhtroscopic surgery and the treatment of that little bit of cartilage that is the problem--maybe put some teflon in there.
Cheers, gotta' go run--er, hobble and smack some tennis balls now,
Happy Holidaze,
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andy64tms
USA
589 Posts |
Posted - 12/26/2015 : 11:29:33
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Hi Gary,
I discovered Dr. Sarno through one of Andrew Weil’s books that my wife was reading. Coincidently that week we saw Dr. Sarno on a TV program. I ordered Healing back Pain, and later his video set of the same name, ( a costly $ outlay for my frugal self). Coming from UK I had a huge wall up against anything psychological, and this out of character interest was unusual. I am a draughtsman designer by trade, not a writer and the only thing I had written about myself up to that time was some notes on an episode with a concoction of anti depressants mentioned in my Success 2000 story. I remember throwing Healing Back Pain across the room in frustration way before Steve Ozanich did; (The Great pain Deception). This was a difficult turning point, I could only take a few pages and chapters of Healing Back Pain at a time before the frustration of disbelief set in. In the end I my wife read the whole book to me in one sitting, she loves to read. My main psychological asset at that time was previously giving up smoking (21) and drinking (37). Jointly these two gave me the inkling idea that I had some measure of control over life!
So in 2000 I was healed with the knowledge that my back pain was false. My neck (Charlie) became my main source of concern as TMS symptoms move to a new home. I took up windsurfing around the age of 50, as I learned that excessive amounts of exercise did not hurt me. Windsurfing also gave me joy. I could just think about the previous week end to feel good. Exercise was also out of character, as a child with concaved chest, I shunned all panting exercise. My definition of sport as a schoolboy was to be smoking cigarettes behind the cricket pavilion when called out to bat. You play the silly game down there so you know what I mean.
Since 2011 and the discovery and help of this web site I have been able to get through family dysfunctional family difficulties, parents deaths, probate, squabbling with a jealous twin brother an alcoholic ½ dead sister who is beyond repair. I am resolved and happy with this past, though it was real it cannot hurt me now!
I wrote these three paragraphs last week to Switts about “My three Pees”.
In 2011 I found it quite distasteful to write my bio on my PAST, what I wrote went against all that I had come to believe. It went against the family and society’s rules of conduct, but it is my past is laid out in a nutshell. I have actually deleted it a few times, and ended up calling it “My Crappy Bio”.
It was Tom who encouraged me to post this bio, thanks Tom.
In 2011 I was laid off and my PRESENT circumstances rapidly changed, I retired and since that time have revised everything about my life. Getting out of the volatile stock market, creating a house budget, all those things humans avoid doing.
In 2012 looking at my PERSONALITY my biggest shock was to realize how much of a perfectionist I was, I journal about this in depth. What started out as negative stories gradually changed to how much joy I have received from my perfectionism. One of the stories was how I carved a steering wheel from a slab of aluminum…with a file! My perfectionism turned out to be my biggest asset; it made me who I am today. I have had to mellow, and remind myself that:”Perfectionism is a gift to be used wisely”.
Gary, I have written many obtuse posts on this web site, as I did most of my journaling here, but you will have to dig for the fun ones. In addition I did extensive private journaling about my perfectionism and a little of the Wiki recovery program.
For me, most importantly of all to express in “writing” is to reveal the inner self and expose it, the essence of TMS.
Tom I'll relpy later
Andy
Past TMS Experience in 2000, with success.
Charlie Horse on neck for 20 years, is almost gone.
Books:
Healing Back Pain
Unlearn your Pain
The Great Pain Deception |
Edited by - andy64tms on 12/26/2015 11:35:28 |
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andy64tms
USA
589 Posts |
Posted - 12/26/2015 : 12:15:08
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Hi Tom,
In my opinion my hero Dr.Sarno would have said knee and hip surgeries were the “Miracles of Modern Medicine.”
Like me, you are able to ameliorate arthritis pain with pain killers, yoga and TMS applications. Has not TMS chosen your hips because it knows you have such a firm belief there? Whether TMS or the aging process caused your arthritis, TMS certainly won’t cure it.
Barbaric though they might seem, these surgeries offer huge relief for millions across the world. They have become passé and a way of life. Sheila fell down many times, and with the brittleness of female bones doctors were concerned she would be forced to have her knees replaced as an emergency repair, by a “practicing first time surgeon” not of her choice.
It was a compassionate 70 year old doctor who pointed out that she was “no spring chicken” and only had at best 10 more years to live. She took a deep breath and compared that to the twenty years of arthritic misery she has endured. She is in now in “Healing pain”, with hope for a comfortable future.
Do yourself a favor, get your suspension fixed. No it wasn’t Dr.Schechter. I can furnish you the name of her surgeon if you like on a separate post.
Ragards Andy
Andy
Past TMS Experience in 2000, with success.
Charlie Horse on neck for 20 years, is almost gone.
Books:
Healing Back Pain
Unlearn your Pain
The Great Pain Deception |
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andy64tms
USA
589 Posts |
Posted - 12/26/2015 : 12:56:52
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Hi Tom,
A little bit of cartilage? How about the bursa sack filled with pieces of marble sized cartilage, floating around in a substance described by her surgeon as putrid acid? These are the passive details of her surgery. Her surgeon mentioned the sack does not have a blood supply, so her immune system could not cope. My logic is that TMS works sometimes through the immune system, but there are exceptions, arthritis is more automobile mechanical than psychological. My question brought laughter to the room full of doctors when I said: “Is this why she is so hot?”
What a subject for the holiday season I hope I am not grossing you out!
Happy holidays
Andy
Andy
Past TMS Experience in 2000, with success.
Charlie Horse on neck for 20 years, is almost gone.
Books:
Healing Back Pain
Unlearn your Pain
The Great Pain Deception |
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Switters
42 Posts |
Posted - 12/28/2015 : 19:13:28
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Hi guys, particularly Andy and Gary, for riding this wave with me and voicing your support.
Update: sitting here with the same gastro distress. It's been 2 months. Once again; I was diagnosed with "non-erosive chronic gastritis". I've been taking Omeprazole for almost 2 weeks. It seemed to help for a while there, but the past 2 days I've been had the same symptoms, hit or miss.
I had the ultrasound, the upper endoscopy, and a CT scan. Everything was "fine" except the gastritis. Tested negative for hPylori.
My feeling is I should be HEALED from this by now. Following Sarno's theory, the body heals quickly. I've been sleeping well, eating mostly well, yet here we are.
Holiday stress? Sure. Took me a week to resolve a cold-war argument with my father in time for Xmas day. It was stressful. Could this current pain be Post-event TMS?
I don't know. Gary, I've tried laughing at this as you did. I'm not so good at that. I occasionally just get mad at it and say, "KNOCK IT OFF!"
Honestly though, it feels as if a permanent uninvited guest has moved into my digestive tract. I want it OUT!
Andy - I read your list of TMS sneak attack traits. It's almost unsettling to feel like our unconscious is working against us.
So I'm left with this; I've been diagnosed, and either gastritis is not leaving on MY timetable, or I need more patience with this physical ailment to leave on it's own time...OR it's TMS as Gary has suggested all along, and I should be stopping meds, laughing it away, etc, etc.
Thoughts?
Mark
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garystil
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Fatigue, drained, and stomach distress. Thoughts?
