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He's doing much better and out of critical care. We drove back yesterday. A few tensions with siblings but otherwise ok. My chest infection comes and goes. Have taken ibuprofen which helps but rather wouldn't. Eating lots of garlic, ginger and chillies as a natural remedy. Thanks for asking

Thank you. It has certainly shaken me uo.

Thank you both for your kind feedback. Just scared at the moment. There's good stuff going on but this seems to be overshadowed and countered by the negative stuff. But will start to be less angry and more positive.

Just need to offload. Sciatica playing up - possible reason: Father just had heart surgery which was needed so that he could undertake bowel cancer surgery. Family tensions Starting new job next month Doing Phd studies. Past few months at current job very toxic environment After visiting father...

Thanks. The symptoms are more intense with stress but am working on strategies to deal with this. Need to avoid alcohol though.

Thanks for your feedback.

Have been suffering from what I believe to be TMS for two years, although my problem has been accepting this - which might explain continuing symptoms. Am re-reading Sarno books. Things have been stressful lately and yesterday had to give a presentation - prior to this, for weeks my foot has...

Same - started a job 2 years ago teaching in a school for disengaged teenagers. Two months into the job back problems. Other stressful factors were within my life at that time also. Am still working on the Sarno philosophy but as the posters here suggest you have to accept the TMS diagnosis...

Well spotted; I missed that grammatical error (shamed because I am a teacher) but I caught your drift!

Thanks Sam

Great thanks for your reply

How long did you have the foot drop and when you say severe, what was that like? Did you have sciatica symptoms?

Haha nice quote Tom. Sitting here writing my thesis and burning feeling in small part of lower back, but just ignoring it. I think there's a bit of the Pavlov situation going on.