Chronic hip/IT Band pain for 2 years - Scared. Hurt. Alone.

[Diana-M]

. i cant even imagine what a day with zero pain and a single night of actual sleep feels like. sigh.

You can get there! Think of it like a treasure hunt. You’ve been hunting for ways to get there, but just haven’t found the right path yet. If you read a lot of news, I strongly suggest you back off of that for awhile. It is so anxiety inducing. And try to think good thoughts. Try to forgive yourself. My kids are raised and they turned out pretty good, but all I can do is think of all the things I know I did wrong while I was raising them. It literally puts me in agony. Lately I’ve been saying to myself, “ I did the best I could. It’s all anybody can do.” I just say it over and over; maybe that can help you too. I’m so sorry you’re in so much pain and misery but I know we can get better. I know it because I hear stories of people that have. after you absorb Dr. Weekes (She has more than one book, But hope and help for your nerves is the best one) really, check in with Dr. Hanscom. I think you would like his stuff too. He has a book and a blog and also the app is really cool. I’m doing it now.

 

[sdiddy]

I wanted to give you an update and hopefully get a little support in here. Around NOvember my hip pain went down quite a bit, and then in January my back seized up for nearly a month. I started exercising and using it more and lifting lightly and eventually it released, but since then my hip pain has worsened again. Its like a never ending cycle. The strange thing is the hip pain is now more to the sides, what feels like the joints, rather than in the hip flexor areas. Im confused. It hurts to stand up, walking is uncomfortable most days, I feel weak in my legs, doing a squat is painful. Its starting to make me feel really bad, being this weak at only 46.

I am in the gym 3x a week lifting light weights and doing PT twice a week working on the hips, so im not inactive. Im not walking or doing cardio though. Im just confused. Could anyone provide some encouragement, advice, anything I can actively do or read to help? I am trying to journal and doing psycho therapy 1x a week also. Thank you all.

 

[JanAtheCPA]

Hey @sdiddy, this sounds pretty common, especially given the many stressors going on these days. You might want to listen to a discussion I just heard, between two friends (one of them a forum member) who have shared their chronic pain stories with each other for the last five or so years. These two guys recently sat down to have a comprehensive discussion about their experiences which they recorded and posted to Spotify as a podcast, over several easy-to-listen-to episodes . They cover a lot of different aspects of chronic symptoms, with an emphasis on setbacks, and they always refer back to the essential teachings of Dr Sarno.

This is @NickBacarella's thread about it: https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threads/root-a-sarno-inspired-podcast.29538/#post-156578 (Root, a Sarno-Inspired Podcast)