sciatica - low back butt and leg pain

I wrote this poem in Dec 2017 as my recovery started quickly progressing (I’ve never written any poetry before this) and have only showed 3 people in that time :/ I feels nice to have summed up that period of my life, and to give me some closure :) :) Injury, followed by loss, confusion my ego...

I've been actively involved in the TMS Community for about a year and a half but had no yet posted my recovery story. A lot of twists and turns along with some moments of doubt along the way. In a nutshell, I have had TMS symptoms going back to probably when I was 8 or so - the first one I can...

Hello, I'm new! I developed sciatic pain on my left side last June. I had physical therapy in the fall, and seemed to get a lot better. Starting in December, I started to have tingling in that leg, and it really worried me. The tingling and pain has been increasing, and my doctor prescribed an...

Hi, I've been working on healing a 4 year sciatica when I sit issue with Dr. Schubiner's book and the free parts of the curable app for about a month. I'm really happy to share that I have been sitting much more, and with fewer symptoms (sometimes none) for a few weeks. Every day is different...

after a long summer of feeling good and not having any major pain or discomfort, I can feel it and it wants to come back with a vengeance. Recently I had a job location change, home issues with wife and kids. And the perfectionist OCD me is not liking it. My job requires a lot of physic...

This is a doozy of a story. Feel free to skim it or read it in its entirety. Either way, I'd love any input, feedback, advice, encouragement, or warnings you might have. I feel so incredibly lost. Thanks, my friends. Background/context: I've had lots of trouble with very tight calves and...

Hi guys, as mentioned in a previous post this week, I'm currently suffering from a quite severe sciatica that prevents me from sleeping at night. Yesterday, I came across this video on TEDx: A Different Approach To Pain Management. Although I'm familiar with Mindfulness meditation, I'm not...

I'm relapsing with this TMS and it's so unbelievably frustrating. I've got left glute, lower back, and sciatica type pain. I'm so frustrated that I want to run through it. I just want to say "Ef it" and go for a job like usual. My question: is this the right thing to do? I'm afraid I'll make...

Good morning everyone, in this period I'm reading the Divided Mind for the first time and I wanted to report my experience, hoping to have some suggestions and that my considerations on the subject can be of support to those who have recently started TMS approach. I started following this...

Have been good for a couple weeks from low back pain and sciatica. Been hiking and staying active. Played some soccer yesterday and today I’m moving like a mummy. My left hip and low back feel like they’re going to spasm. I’m off on vacation and have a family trip to the beach coming up on...

Has anyone had an annular tear and healed from it because u accepted it was tms? I was told from my mri that my low back pain and sciatica pain are the cause of an annular tear to my L5-S1. I have read Sarnos books and felt I was healed for a couple months but recently had a relapse of...

It’s 2:45 am and I can’t sleep. Trying to talk myself past what seems like my sciatic nerve talking to me. I’ve been dealing with chronic neck pain for over a decade now, but my pain has become manageable by way of understanding the mindbody connection for the last several years . (However, I’m...

Hi all, I would really appreciate if you could take a few minutes to read this. I’d be grateful for any advice / answers / support. I’m at the end of my tether and struggling to see how I can get out of this. I am hoping you can help me in judging if this is TMS (i’m struggling to see it...

Hi all, I realize it has been over a year since I found Dr. Sarno, TMS and these forums and that I never officially posted my success story! I know i’ve spoken to many of you about it but here it is, fleshed out. Hopefully a little inspiration for those still struggling…though you are never...

If any of you are in the Chicago area and have TMS, you're probably familiar with Dr. John Stracks... he's an excellent TMS physician who's been at Northwestern for many years and just left to start his own practice. He's actually MY doctor, and he's the one who introduced me to TMS concepts...

I have been pain-free for nearly two years and my success story is posted here: http://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threads/tms-healing-worked-for-me For a about a year, I have been working a high-stress job in community mental health. I also teach two online classes, am the father of a young child...

Hi all, Just a follow up to my gloomy last message when I got to the end of the SEP. The thrust of that post was that I'd finished the course in worse pain than when I started. That was true, and in the days that followed I got even worse than that and developed sciatica, which I've never had...

Hello All, I'm new here although I've been reading all the books that I can on TMS. I have successfully cured sciatica and lower back pain and I'm back running again. Sometimes after a hard run, I get some knee pain. I talk to my mind or brain and ask it to stop doing what it's doing. It never...

So I am fairly certain my pain is 100% TMS, but I am still experiencing doubt and fear that there is something structurally wrong with my left leg (where I have had majority of my pain for 12 years.) It is mostly sciatica type pain and pirifornis stuff but also hip pain, knee pain/clicking...

Source: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/03/22/a-painkiller-found-to-be-no-better-than-placebo-for-sciatica/ (A painkiller found to be no better than a placebo for sciatica) A drug frequently prescribed for pain is no more effective than...