Recent content by RN64

I was talking to someone about chronic pain and the role of medication, and I remembered my post from a while ago. Just thought I'd post an update. When I posted this last year, I was seeing a therapist for anxiety and low-grade depression. She was trying to convince me that meds could help, as...

I had success with Dr. Sarno's approach in 2006. I challenged the belief that pain = physical damage, I got active again, and the pain diminished. For the past 10 years or so, the pain has been back, and it's been getting worse in recent years. I am absolutely certain it's not caused by...

Hi all, It's been a while since I've posted here! I recovered from chronic pain using Sarno's approach in 2005. For me, that was a process of challenging the notion that pain = physical damage and slowly starting to increase my activity. But more recently, I have been having a lot of flare ups...

Hey Joyce, I am still running - I'd never give that up :) I stopped racing a few years back, though - I realized that I was getting way too anxious about mileage and optimal training and race times, and as a result, running had stopped being fun. It's funny, I too discovered swimming when I...

Hi Birdie, I too have "trigger points" in my neck and shoulders. I recovered from this pain using Sarno's approach back in 2005. I still had "trigger points" (i.e., spots that felt like knots) but they didn't cause me pain. I'm suffering a relapse now, but I'm still quite confident that this...

Good luck Joyce! I am a runner too and used to be pretty serious about racing. In my experience, actual running injuries (like sprains) cause obvious swelling and heal quite quickly with ice and compression. I used to assume that anything else was TMS :-)

Imagyx - it sounds like you are doing exactly the right thing, slowly trying to challenge the pain by doing things like driving. And yes, I think the key point is to challenge the pain *with the knowledge* of TMS. I recovered several years ago using the TMS approach, and the only thing that...

Hi! I recovered from buttock and neck/shoulder pain about 7 years ago using the TMS approach. After 6 months of debilitating pain - and going from doctor to doctor looking for a solution - I read Sarno's book. Within a few days, the pain was actually a bit better. Encouraged by this, I dove...

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