Recent content by cokeefe88

Thank you both! These are helpful responses. It's especially encouraging to hear from you, Gigi, that Dr. Sarno told you it wasn't worth a visit to him. I will continue not seeing a doctor, then. I will also print out the TMS daily reminders and put them on the back of my desk behind my computer...

Dr. Sarno and other TMS doctors repeat in various places the importance of having a physical examination from a TMS doctor to ensure that there's actually no structural abnormality. This is both a good precaution in case there actually is an abnormality, and they say it's a prerequisite to fully...

Hello all, I'm on day 8, for the second time. About nine or ten months ago, I got about this far in the program before I gave it up because I just didn't have the motivation to stick with it (not because I doubt TMS; just because my pain was already relatively minor and I was busy with other...

I was diagnosed with a herniated disc in October 2010, after a bout of excruciating back pain. I was a sophomore in college at the time. I'd been suffering from more or less chronic back pain since I was about 10, but never that bad before. I tried a number of things. The pain naturally declined...

Awesome. Good for you. I'm on day 8 too. My main pain is still in pretty much the same place, although I have noticed more pain in other places too...so I'll just assume that's a good thing :)

I started this about a month ago, and have only found time to do another "day" of the program about every 3 or 4 calendar days. I hope that's not setting me back. Part of the reason for that, I suppose, is that my pain is manageable now so I don't have a great sense of urgency. I hope I'm not...

I came across Healing Back Pain last December and read it then. I was very hopeful, and the book seemed to fit my experience perfectly, and the arguments made sense—but I knew I still had reservations. My back was pretty much the same a few months later, so I recently re-read Healing Back Pain...