Recent content by jackyrs

I’ve been away on vacation for the last two weeks and during that time I had full days without pain. I forgot about it for long stretches. Now I’m back at work and pain has returned. things were actually really good before the vacation but since returning to work they’re worse than before I...

Thanks Ellen, really helpful reply. So do you think a productive way to view recovery from TMS is as a search for the truth about our internal emotions and thoughts?

On day 8 of the program, the question to ponder is whether you’ve found the emotions connected to your pain. I don’t think I have so far, even if I’ve found some emotions I feel strongly. How would you know you’ve found the emotions connected to your pain? I actually didn’t realise that pain...

Just to update you guys, I cancelled the mri and the McGill specialist! had an amazing few days where the pain was right down and almost gone and then a bit of a recurrence but just going to focus on the program.

Doesn’t Dr Sarno recommend getting one to check there’s nothing sinister at work? Am doing lots of journaling- really enjoying it!

That’s a v good question Jan and of course the answer is: I don’t know I’m injured. I just have pain. What I do know is I just went for a 7km run and have less pain than I did before! Which I’m not sure would happen if I had a back injury. thank you for asking that question: v thought...

Thank you so much that’s even better to hear than what I was hoping for. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it. Off I go!

Hey everyone, I've suffered with constant back pain for last 2.5 months, which I appreciate is a short time around here, but it's been very unpleasant all the same. It started in my lower back and got really bad after a long drive. I assumed the cause was a combo of my terrible posture, 6...