sciatica - low back butt and leg pain

Patients and physicians are not making logical or reasonable decisions regarding spine surgery. I have watched this phenomenon for almost 30 years and it is getting much worse. You have to be fairly intelligent to make it through medical school. A basic concept in trying to repair anything in...

So, I went to see a top TMS doctor yesterday in hopes that this would help me commit to and embrace a purely TMS approach. Now I am more confused. Visit highlights: -He confirmed that I very likely do have TMS (type T personality, TMS tender points, etc.) -Unfortunately, he did not think my MRI...

Hello All, I'm so pleased to share my healing story with you. I was so excited about my recovery that I wrote a book about it. After two decades of debilitating chronic low-back pain, which ranged from being simply an annoying pain to incidents of paralyzing back spasms, which left me completely...

I am in the middle of sciatic flare-up. I notice that I have been on a pain roller coaster for a few months, flaring up for a nasty week or so every three to four weeks. I have been going through the SEP a little slow, about half-speed. Anyway... I recently signed up at a local yoga studio...

Hi. Back in summer of 2012, while engaging in sport, I experienced (completely out of the blue) extreme pain from my lower back all the way down my right leg. Over the next 2 weeks, the pain became severe in my right ankle (couldn't stand for more than 30 seconds), had numbness in my toes...

Hi all. Here is my healed-from-TMS story from several years ago. Hope you find it helpful. First noticed a weird back pain after coming back from vacation; just figured I had carried a heavy suitcase up and down some stairs. Next time I felt this it was accompanied by tingling/pain in my right...

Hi everyone, I just discover this amazing thing called TMS recently. I am a victim of lower back pain over the last 8 to 10 years. Visited numerous specialists, taken MRIs and diagnose as having a disc protrusion at L5. While I can have relatively painfree period of between 1 to 2 years...

I have had sciatica pain for the past 2 weeks . I spent 5 days in the hospital and presently I'm in bed and can't move without pain. The pain has shifted from my back and outer leg to the front part of my thigh. The pain is enough to keep me in bed all day. The only time I'm up is to go to...

I'm in the middle of a complete relapse with my low back/sciatic pain caused by TMS. I had made a full recovery after discovering Dr. Sarno's books, but for whatever reason I have now relapsed. I have an appt scheduled with a TMS Psychotherapist but that is 2 weeks from now and I'm in so much...

Within the last couple of days I have suffered a complete relapse and am freaking out! I'm trying not to give it too much attention, and am really trying to stay calm and do everything I did the first time to recover completely. I have a lot of obvious causes for it...it coincides exactly with...

Hello all. This is my first time in this forum and I'm searching for some advice. I feel rather hopeless at the moment. My lower back pain began one year ago on my left side, running down my left leg (sciatica?). It became difficult to sleep on my left side and sitting for long periods...

I thought I should record something here that happened to me yesterday afternoon because it seems to illustrate some of the principles behind Dr. Sarno's TMS theory. After lifting weights at the gym during which I did a bunch of leg curls and presses (which typically makes my sciatica flare up)...

I'm new to TMS and have just finished Dr. Sarno's books.....I am suffering from Sciatica and am feeling much better, but I feel like it's slow process. I've stopped all my treatments from Physical Therapy and started to feel much better, I then stopped all medication and noticed that it didn't...

Day 1 of the program. I'm really hoping this is it!! (Can you sense the hesitation there?). I read Dr S's book probably almost 4 weeks ago and started immediately feeling better. Then this last week or so it has gone downhill again. I am diagnosed sciatica L5-S1 disc herniation. Have had...

I love the part of the reading from today about the Phantom Limb. It really feels like it gave me another angle to explore this pain from. The article ends saying that the learned pain can be reversed and i'm like "HOW, TELL ME HOW!!" I guess I know how though. By slowly reminding my...

This is my first post here. Just joined last night. I am a member at tmshelp.com forum for a couple years and post frequently over there. I have know about this forum but just didn't have the time to spend at both places. Don't want to be redundant. I saw quite a few members belong to both...