marathon

Hello all, I've been running on and off for 15 years and started to take it seriously in January 2023. Since then, I have run three times a week consistently, done 4 Half marathons and a handful of 10ks and 5 ks. I decided to sign up for my first marathon which is taking place in a month! My...

My pain started when I was 13 years old. I had chronic pain for eight years after that. When I was 16 I went to an orthopedist who took some MRI scans and told me my discs were degenerative and herniating. He told me I was going to have pain the rest of my life and it would only get worse as I...

Hello all: I mentioned in another thread my struggles with anxiety in the pit of my stomach leading up to running my first marathon. I finished. I didn't quite reach my goal of finishing under 4 hours, but I showed a hell of a lot of perseverance after hitting a bad wall on mile 20. Training...

Hello Friends, I am back once again to complaint to you about my problems lol. Recently I have had this TMS symptom that comes up from time to time. It started last year when I went on a vacation to Mexico, and I chalked it up to some kind of repressed feelings I had about going on the trip...

I haven’t been on this forum for months. In fact, I haven’t really thought much about TMS over the last few months. I still experience pain everyday. It mainly only affects the middle finger of my right hand now and this is 30-50% better than it was, depending on the day. My shoulder and wrist...

Hi everyone! I wanted to share my success story of chronic pain in the fourm of “cfs and fibromyalgia”. I want to say before I say anything else. You got this. You are winning by even knowing about this work and it’s not easy and we all know that. But trust me, life is beautiful after pain. To...

Hi all, I'm new here! I can't even begin to express how happy I am to have found this forum after discovering Sarno's books last month. I've been suffering from TMS for years - my case is so classic that I suspected the pain was psychological even before I had even heard of TMS. I am an avid...