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lilykins
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 Posted - 03/14/2006 : 18:14:52
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Hi everyone. This is my first post. I have suffered with back pain on and off for about 10 years (I'm 31). Diagnosed 3 years ago with a herniation. The first neurosurgeon I saw wanted to do a fusion surgery. The second one wanted only to remove the herniated material. I didn't allow either procedure. I went to acupuncture, massage, talk therapy, chiropractor, and I slowly got better. I had 3 mostly pain-free years. Six months ago, both of my hips started hurting when I would go for walks or at the end of a work day. In the past six months, it has progressed to severe sciatica in my left leg. I feel better on 800 mg ibuprofen every 6 hours and/or vicodin. The above therapies (minus the talk therapy) have not helped much this time. I read "Healing Back Pain" and it has resonated with me. I feel some better since reading the book and trying to apply the principles and I am not taking meds now, but I still have pain every day and some nights I have trouble sleeping because of it. I have an appointment to see a doctor who is able to diagnose TMS in mid-April. I can say that I have about 80% acceptance of the TMS diagnosis. I feel intuitively that I will be pain-free with 100% acceptance. Given that, I'm surprised that I still haven't reached 100%. I believe now that the credit I was giving to acupuncture for my previous recovery should more properly have been placed with the talk therapy and that I'm probably having a recurrance now based on conditioning.
I just wanted to share my story and see if anyone had any words of encouragement or suggestion to help me along this path. Thanks, everyone! |
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Posted - 03/14/2006 : 19:47:49
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Welcome,
You are on the right path and as you learn more you confidence will be 100%......I wish you all the best. Keep reading Dr. Sarno's book over and over. Here are also some quotes rom Dr. Sarno's book: http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1670 |
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Fox
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Posted - 03/15/2006 : 11:59:43
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| Somewhere on this website you'll find a reference to a study on spinal fusions. The main conclusion of the study is that they usually don't work. Mine sure didn't and the 6 month recovery period was agony....I haven't seen any similar study on the laminectomy/disectomy (non-fusion) type of surgical disc "repair". I've found roughly 85% improvement to my severe sciatica, which has been around for 20 years, by following Sarno's philosophy. And when I do have the pain, I'm no longer terrified by it because I know it is not structural. |
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