Recent content by Helenlouise

Back pain returned after 7 years but swiftly sent packing. I have been free of back spasms for 7 years after reading Dr Sarno's books and doing the recovery programme on this site. Last week it came back and it was so bad that I could not even put my shoes and socks on. I immediately began to...

It began in my twenties[ I am now in my sixties] with periods when my back would go into spasm totally incapacitating me.[ I actually collapsed on a Zebra crossing once.] Later in my thirties I had an MRI and was told I had degeneration of lower back. I coped with pain killers and taking muscle...

Thank you all so much for operating this web site and for promoting the work of Doctor Sarno and the writers and practitioners who have followed in his footsteps. I have been using the site and devouring the books for nearly a year now. The pain did try migrating around as in the symptom...

I am gradually working through this programme after having read Healing Back Pain. My level of recovery has been very encouraging : I went walking in the Alps for a week and have restarted running after a ten year break. The severe pain I used to experience when sitting had diminished by around...

Dear Healing It was Dear Healing, Thanks so much for the empathetic and interesting reply. I have had my eye on the Alan Gordon programme and you have now encouraged me to start it, once I finish the educational support plan. That said, I have made enormous progress already and am running...

Hello Zclesa I too have given up alcohol, although I used a book called This Naked Mind to do so. In that book, Annie Grace credits Dr Sarno which then sent me off reading all his work. You have now inspired me to read Steve Ozanich's book which I will begin the moment I finish my current...

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply. I agree it is incredibly difficult. I think once I read the book I too knew that my symptoms were 100% TMS. I am working through the programme and refusing to avoid those aspects of exercise that I have shied away form in the past. Mainly I feel...

Fourteen years ago my brother was killed in a motor bike accident. I went into shock and my bladder stopped working to the extent I had to be hospitalised and catheterised. When I realised it was grief that was causing the problem I went back to peeing normally. However, I then developed...