sciatica - low back butt and leg pain

Hey y’all, I am new to posting but not new to these wonderful principles for moving through chronic physical symptoms. I am a psychologist and have studied mechanisms of change for overcoming various mental health struggles and chronic pain. Sarno, this website, and the back pain books were my...

Hi everyone! My name is Emily and for 4.5 years, I lived with chronic pain and symptoms that moved throughout my body. During that time, I received many different diagnoses and experienced symptoms in multiple areas, including: Cubital tunnel syndrome Golfer’s elbow (both arms) Small fiber...

I've been fighting sciatica / piriformis syndrome symptoms for the last 6 months and was doing well during the day but not so well at night. A couple of weeks ago the pain started ramping way up at night and some during the day, and now I can't sleep more than an hour at a time without having...

Hey everyone, I’m a 24-year-old . In 2022, I was diagnosed with L4/L5 Grade 1 isthmic spondylolisthesis and sciatica. I also have a congenital L5-S1 fusion. My father has the same condition but is asymptomatic. However, mine is considered unstable (moves in flexion-extension but doesn’t change...

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share my success story that I did with Jim Prussack at the The Pain PT. We discussed a variety of topics but focused on how grief, parenting, and general fears led me to developing and recovering from muscle pain, muscle weakness, bladder symptoms, IBS, insomnia...

Sarno stipulated that tms is due to localized ischemia. i believe that i have puzzled some evidence supporting this idea. here is where emoxypine / mexidol comes in. One non-blinded non-randomized study determined the effectiveness of emoxypine in 205 patients with clinical manifestations of...

Hi everyone! I was recently a guest on a podcast where I share my journey with chronic pain (TMS), what triggered it, and what I did to overcome it. Posting it here in hopes it helps others! https://share.transistor.fm/s/7edd40e2 (Overcoming Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy | Emily's Chronic...

I overcame sciatica as one of my first tms symptoms and I was able to confront it and it went away. I get some pain down my leg every once in a while but mostly I'm pain free or at least I'm filtering the pain out usually. I noticed that when I bear down to poop I get sciatica increased and...

Hello, My name is Sonia. I'll spare you the details about my symptoms as I'm sure you're experiencing them yourself. If you're like me, you're reading this going, "get to the point! What did you do to get better?" The short answer is nothing, at least directly related to pain. I made a list of...

I've been dealing with TMS in the form of sciatica and back pain for the past 7 years. It's the typical TMS story, getting a diagnosis of a herniated disc after dealing with unknown pain for months, going through dozens of doctors and treatments, and finding zero relief until reading Dr. Sarno's...

Hi folks, I've been writing this essay of my TMS experience in my head for a few weeks now and I just want to get it out there because I am so thankful and overjoyed at having recovered. I hope that others who find themselves in a similar situation or with a similar diagnosis can find this and...

This one is Season 3, Episode 42, am interview and catch-up with one of Nicole's patients from 9/10 years ago, who had also seen Dr. Sarno sometime in the past. This woman, who calls herself Mouse, was in a wheelchair at age 60 from plantar fasciitis along with many other issues, including...

Hello everyone, for over a year now, I have been dealing with TMS/MBS/biopsychosocial pain model. I have had lower back pain for almost three years and neurological pain (electric shocks, tingling, sensory disturbances) in both legs below the knees for 1.5 years. Like many others, I am...

Hi everyone, I am not new to the notion of TMS and have definitely had bouts of pain in various places which I've overcome simply by belief my body is ok and calming my nervous system. Part of my pain issues have been back related on some occasions and piriformis/hamstring related on others...

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--- Summary --- What's greater than the gift of health? I went from being a person who felt like there was something wrong with their body ... to a healthy, normal person (whatever normal is). The mind-body treatment pioneered by Dr. John Sarno and carried on by others has transformed my...

I have had anxiety and depression for years and about 5 years ago after experiencing my first full blown panic attack, I suffered sciatica and it lasted for a few months. I visited a physiotherapist who gave me a couple of exercises to do and they helped a lot. The physiotherapist told me that...

Hi, i want to update my status first, some times my hands hurts ony when i`m tiping just like right now, but you know thats how TMS works, any way my tumbs are fin, they dont click or hurt any more. I`m back to exercies, my legs doesnt hurt anymore when i`m swiming in any stile so good. BUT i...

Hi! For those who deal with LBP, sciatica, leg and foot issues, have there been people who had numbness in the foot in association with all of the above? I didn't have foot issues until a particularly bad episode/flare-up in December which I now see as perhaps a bit of an extinction burst...

Hey! I'm a 19 year old male, about 5-6 months ago had an injury while doing a backflip on a trampoline which led to acute pain in my lower back. A CT scan showed very small bulges in my discs, so small that 2 doctors couldnt see anything. Eventually I started feeling numbness in my leg and pain...