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thank you, @Trellis for for those recommendations. @JanAtheCPA gave me some advice on journaling and that's been helpful, too - thank you. i'm happy to report that i'm over the hill -- at the 50% better mark and making progress everyday, especially after seeing the surgeon and his lack of...

i have to tell this story because I imagine it's something many TMS believers have had to deal with given our personality types. So, I'm walking hunched over at work. it's clear I'm in pain. And my co-workers are clearly concerned and super nice to me. My boss went so far as to order me a desk...

thank you, Andy. i got goose bumps reading your reply :happy: -- i hope to have good things to report in a couple of weeks

thank you for your support, Andy. i'm really struggling with this relapse. i'm now months into being hunched over and in constant sciatic pain. i can barely make it from my desk job to my car after work some days. the pain has won a couple of battles (making me get pain prescription, trying...

thank you @JanAtheCPA for those suggestions -- i'll put more effort into my journaling. I appreciate it. I've found my journals from the last bout of TMS to be helpful as a reminder that i've been here before and it will pass.

What are my symptoms? i'm entering my 3rd month of constant sciatic pain. it runs down my butt and leg and has my trunk permanently bent forward and to the left. I can't stand up straight or lie on my back. i also can't lean to my right at all. What are you doing for the symptoms? i've...

thanks for your story, Kevin. I'm in the middle of my 2nd bout against TMS prompted by the 2nd pregnancy. i feel your frustration. i can barely get around in the evenings from my sciatic pain - so hard to stay positive going into my 3rd month of CONSTANT pain. i'm getting better b/c every now...

that's the conditioning -- your brain has written code, "new car = back pain" so sorry to hear that. reprogramming your brain is like trying to unlearn how to ride a bike, it's not easy. keep talking to yourself, you can get over this just like you did last time

hello again -- wow, my last post was Dec 2016. I recovered nearly completely a couple of months after that. Like other success stories, I started a new job in Jan 2017 and in a couple of weeks, maybe a month or two, my pain subsided. I began seeing a therapist sometime in spring 2017 when I had...

Thanks, Andy! I'm back on the road to success. The pain is subsiding, however I'm still walking crooked. Usually it's too painful to stand up straight. Is it possible that my TMS symptoms of being hunched over in pain and favoring my left side for about a year could lead to real misalignment...

Well, I'm back. My son was born and my life has changed. And no surprise, my butt/back pain has returned. I can't push the pain away anymore. It lives with me. It goes with me wherever I go. It is always top of mind. Somehow it's worse than it was before. At Thanksgiving, I was so hunched over...

you say you haven't found any relief, but some weeks are better than others. I'm better, but I'm still in pain. I've learned to live with the pain. Or will the pain away. The pain comes everyday and everyday I have to fight it down. And when the pain is away, I'm just thinking about when it will...

Age: 32 Pain first started: Oct 2015 Prior Symptoms: Sciatic nerve pain/piriformis left butt to left ankle/ lower back pain First Read about TMS: March 2016 Rock Bottom: Unable to sit or stand w/out pain, could only walk hunched over Current Condition: minor irritation, have full range of motion...