samuelrhys
Peer Supporter
Hi Guys,
I'd just like you to give me some advice.
I'm 21 years old and have been suffering with chronic pain for 3 years now.
Problems in my life started around the ages of 17 where my mother was getting very depressed and started drinking until this became an obsession. Over the years the drinking would get worse and worse until she started to be abusive and extremely depressed to where she started to set the house on fire, stab her self beat us all that kind of stuff. This made me build up a lot of anger which I could generally take out doing boxing and playing rugby.
As all this continued I started to want to get away and decided I was going to go to Australia backpacking. I planned out my trip over the year while saving enough money to fund myself for a year. I started going running 3 times a week to get fit for it until a problem started in my hip. I hurt a lot sitting after 30mins and had a catching in my hip everytime I lifted my leg. I saw 3 physios who said its fine and just aggravated I then went and had an MRI where they told me I had FAI and a Labral tear which needed surgery. I canceled all my traveling and got quite depressed. I then looked up forums on people who had this surgery and it didn't sound all too easy or successful, I got even more depressed but went ahead with it anyway not knowing better at this age. This was september 2013
I don't want to write too much about my hips but in the end I found out the recovery sucked and then got told I need another operation on my left hip I got this done a few days before my 21st Birthday. July 2014
My mother continued her drinking throughout this difficult time and called me a lot of names such as cripple spastic, and became even more abusive.
I kept up with my physio but was still in pain with my hips until around December when while still in pain I thought I may as well just go traveling and see how I get on. I love exploring places and me any my friends go out every weekend looking for new places we haven't been before I booked my trip to Australia for April 2015. In February while out with some friends walking I stopped to get my camera out while they carried on walking, I hadn't really run as I read that people who had FAI surgery shouldn't really but decided I'll half run 100m to catch them up. I wasn't running properly as I was scared of hurting myself but 2 days after this walk I had awful lower back and hip and foot pain.
I thought this pain should only last a few weeks as I went to paris a few months before and once I was back my hips started to hurt but that pain went after 2 weeks however this one didn't. My back pain became so painful I couldn't get out of bed. I started to get depressed again thinking I'd have to cancel my travel plans. As the weeks went by seeing different physios all who said I haven't hurt my hips again I didn't believe any of them and I didn't believe any of their methods were working.
I ended up going to the gym twice a day once in the morning 6am and the evening 6pm. I was desperate. My life became very restricted, I hate being indoors but sitting in all day everyday sucked. My lower back pain, hip pain was all too much. I couldn't go into work because I was hurting too much and my only way around it was to sleep all day and all night so I didn't think about the pain. My family got quite sick of me, I didn't every complain I was hurting I'd rather just sit in my room and keep my thoughts to myself, I didn't really like sympathy from people because how can some one give it when they don't know what its like.
One evening while laid in bed (my mum still being abusive) my dad ran into my room pulled my by my legs out of my bed and dragged me a long the floor shouting that I'm faking and its all because I didn't want to go to Australia. He threw my bags at me and told me to leave.
I took the train to my Grandmas house and stayed at hers for the next few weeks, I had also left my job by this point. I didn't want to talk to people and was just desperate to find a way out, I grew a beard and long hair and really didn't care about my appearance. I also started to think of ending my life as an easy way out.
The pain was still in my right foot hips and lower back. I got an MRI on my lower back which came back as fine. I also had full blood tests and all that which came back fine.
My Grandma then kicked me out because I didn't want to speak to my mother (her daughter) so I went to my friends house to stay which was very kind of his parents to allow me to. I kept moving around physios and osteopaths to try find a way out of this when I came across upright health in America. The two guys here have done countless research on why FAI and labral tears in the hips isn't a mechanical issue and labral tears don't actually cause pain. If you read the studies https://www.thefaifix.com you can see what I mean.
I bought the book and did all the program everyday 6am and 6pm for 1hr: 30mins each time.
I wasn't too worried about my hips at this point but was more concerned about my back. The pain now was more in the kidney areas, which was extremely painful. After a month this pain had now also moved into my upper back and neck. I went on holiday with some friends and during the day while doing photography I felt 80% ok however on an evening all the pains would return. I just thought it was the heat during the day relaxing my muscles. I then went home and the pain returned all day.
As the months went on the pain in my lower back had pretty much gone along with the foot pain and a lot of the hip pain. However my upper back killed. Everyday all day I'd just think of ways to resolve this pain.
I then started to get acid reflux constant burping and pain in my chest, this became pretty painful in the top abdominal muscles. I went to the doctors and they gave me some tablets which didn’t help in anyway so I went back and got some other tablets. After a month or so the stomach problem went away.
My Grandma who i was only living with a month ago (at this point) died suddenly from a stroke, she was perfectly fine as I was helping her in the garden a few days before. She could walk, lift, climb everything but suddenly she was gone… Been as depressed I was a few weeks before I thought this would push me over the edge, but It didn’t, I think more so because I had to keep strong for my brothers and other family members.
Once the stomach pain had gone, I then developed a constant tight throat and a lump like feeling in there. This was more annoying than painful. I started reading healing back pain and started to believe I had TMS.
I had already tried, the egoscue method, various physios, osteopaths, doctors and nothing seemed to be working so I thought maybe it is TMS. I kept reading the book and the more I read the more I believed.
I went to Kefalonia with my friend and brother and actually for the first time in a long time hardly had any pain. I then returned to England and the pain was there but I could only feel it about 20%. I still had this feeling in my throat though but even that wasn’t as bad until the last few days of the holiday.
Feeling much better I decided to go out to the park with my brother to throw this small rugby ball about. I started to run a little, again this was compensating running even though I wasn’t in pain I ran in a way which felt I couldn’t hurt my hips. My hips were actually fine for about 2 months before this. The next day I woke up in pain from my hips, the same old groin pain, pain when sitting etc.
And well this is where I am at now.. I still don’t know if my hip pain is pain from TMS or just a flare up from my injury a few years ago.
If anyone could give me any advice, I’d really appreciate it.
I’m also sorry for the extremely long message but I thought I may as well write it all.
Thank You
Samuel Rhys
I'd just like you to give me some advice.
I'm 21 years old and have been suffering with chronic pain for 3 years now.
Problems in my life started around the ages of 17 where my mother was getting very depressed and started drinking until this became an obsession. Over the years the drinking would get worse and worse until she started to be abusive and extremely depressed to where she started to set the house on fire, stab her self beat us all that kind of stuff. This made me build up a lot of anger which I could generally take out doing boxing and playing rugby.
As all this continued I started to want to get away and decided I was going to go to Australia backpacking. I planned out my trip over the year while saving enough money to fund myself for a year. I started going running 3 times a week to get fit for it until a problem started in my hip. I hurt a lot sitting after 30mins and had a catching in my hip everytime I lifted my leg. I saw 3 physios who said its fine and just aggravated I then went and had an MRI where they told me I had FAI and a Labral tear which needed surgery. I canceled all my traveling and got quite depressed. I then looked up forums on people who had this surgery and it didn't sound all too easy or successful, I got even more depressed but went ahead with it anyway not knowing better at this age. This was september 2013
I don't want to write too much about my hips but in the end I found out the recovery sucked and then got told I need another operation on my left hip I got this done a few days before my 21st Birthday. July 2014
My mother continued her drinking throughout this difficult time and called me a lot of names such as cripple spastic, and became even more abusive.
I kept up with my physio but was still in pain with my hips until around December when while still in pain I thought I may as well just go traveling and see how I get on. I love exploring places and me any my friends go out every weekend looking for new places we haven't been before I booked my trip to Australia for April 2015. In February while out with some friends walking I stopped to get my camera out while they carried on walking, I hadn't really run as I read that people who had FAI surgery shouldn't really but decided I'll half run 100m to catch them up. I wasn't running properly as I was scared of hurting myself but 2 days after this walk I had awful lower back and hip and foot pain.
I thought this pain should only last a few weeks as I went to paris a few months before and once I was back my hips started to hurt but that pain went after 2 weeks however this one didn't. My back pain became so painful I couldn't get out of bed. I started to get depressed again thinking I'd have to cancel my travel plans. As the weeks went by seeing different physios all who said I haven't hurt my hips again I didn't believe any of them and I didn't believe any of their methods were working.
I ended up going to the gym twice a day once in the morning 6am and the evening 6pm. I was desperate. My life became very restricted, I hate being indoors but sitting in all day everyday sucked. My lower back pain, hip pain was all too much. I couldn't go into work because I was hurting too much and my only way around it was to sleep all day and all night so I didn't think about the pain. My family got quite sick of me, I didn't every complain I was hurting I'd rather just sit in my room and keep my thoughts to myself, I didn't really like sympathy from people because how can some one give it when they don't know what its like.
One evening while laid in bed (my mum still being abusive) my dad ran into my room pulled my by my legs out of my bed and dragged me a long the floor shouting that I'm faking and its all because I didn't want to go to Australia. He threw my bags at me and told me to leave.
I took the train to my Grandmas house and stayed at hers for the next few weeks, I had also left my job by this point. I didn't want to talk to people and was just desperate to find a way out, I grew a beard and long hair and really didn't care about my appearance. I also started to think of ending my life as an easy way out.
The pain was still in my right foot hips and lower back. I got an MRI on my lower back which came back as fine. I also had full blood tests and all that which came back fine.
My Grandma then kicked me out because I didn't want to speak to my mother (her daughter) so I went to my friends house to stay which was very kind of his parents to allow me to. I kept moving around physios and osteopaths to try find a way out of this when I came across upright health in America. The two guys here have done countless research on why FAI and labral tears in the hips isn't a mechanical issue and labral tears don't actually cause pain. If you read the studies https://www.thefaifix.com you can see what I mean.
I bought the book and did all the program everyday 6am and 6pm for 1hr: 30mins each time.
I wasn't too worried about my hips at this point but was more concerned about my back. The pain now was more in the kidney areas, which was extremely painful. After a month this pain had now also moved into my upper back and neck. I went on holiday with some friends and during the day while doing photography I felt 80% ok however on an evening all the pains would return. I just thought it was the heat during the day relaxing my muscles. I then went home and the pain returned all day.
As the months went on the pain in my lower back had pretty much gone along with the foot pain and a lot of the hip pain. However my upper back killed. Everyday all day I'd just think of ways to resolve this pain.
I then started to get acid reflux constant burping and pain in my chest, this became pretty painful in the top abdominal muscles. I went to the doctors and they gave me some tablets which didn’t help in anyway so I went back and got some other tablets. After a month or so the stomach problem went away.
My Grandma who i was only living with a month ago (at this point) died suddenly from a stroke, she was perfectly fine as I was helping her in the garden a few days before. She could walk, lift, climb everything but suddenly she was gone… Been as depressed I was a few weeks before I thought this would push me over the edge, but It didn’t, I think more so because I had to keep strong for my brothers and other family members.
Once the stomach pain had gone, I then developed a constant tight throat and a lump like feeling in there. This was more annoying than painful. I started reading healing back pain and started to believe I had TMS.
I had already tried, the egoscue method, various physios, osteopaths, doctors and nothing seemed to be working so I thought maybe it is TMS. I kept reading the book and the more I read the more I believed.
I went to Kefalonia with my friend and brother and actually for the first time in a long time hardly had any pain. I then returned to England and the pain was there but I could only feel it about 20%. I still had this feeling in my throat though but even that wasn’t as bad until the last few days of the holiday.
Feeling much better I decided to go out to the park with my brother to throw this small rugby ball about. I started to run a little, again this was compensating running even though I wasn’t in pain I ran in a way which felt I couldn’t hurt my hips. My hips were actually fine for about 2 months before this. The next day I woke up in pain from my hips, the same old groin pain, pain when sitting etc.
And well this is where I am at now.. I still don’t know if my hip pain is pain from TMS or just a flare up from my injury a few years ago.
If anyone could give me any advice, I’d really appreciate it.
I’m also sorry for the extremely long message but I thought I may as well write it all.
Thank You
Samuel Rhys
which makes it worth a try, anyway. The great thing about it is the daily structure - designed so that you make gradual progress and don't get burned out. 
Who--or what 
--told you that? Contact them and show or tell them how wrong they were and to stop spreading misinformation placebos. 