For those of you who have had imaging that is not good, but is also not the cause of your pain, how do you rid your brain of those images and those words on your mri? Things like foraminal narrowing, severe osteoarthrosis, ligamentum flavum buckling, ostepphyte complex and degenerative discs at multi levels. These are the words forever etched in my brain from the mri. Yet I have been told these things are not causing my pain. And while I do believe that, these words linger as a reminder of my degenerated spine. How do I change my perspective on the words? I can't shake them and they are ruining my well being. I wish I never had the mri.
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Baseball65
Beloved Grand Eagle
As soon as you let go of that little sentence, you can start to forget all of the BS you learned in the system...that is why Half of "Healing Back Pain" is devoted to what doesn't cause pain. That is a bunch of useless nomenclature particular to their industry. In fact, they often have to update the words, because nobody ever gets better in their system.
Virtually every back pain sufferer on this forum has been given all sorts of diagnoses. You keep studying, saying the reminders and looking for sources of Anger hidden in plain sight.
No...they're not. You're just scared. we all were...Just keep reading Sarno and doing the work.
I have to search this forum sometimes to remember all the crap I had...and I even broke a vertebrae in my back since then...and no pain.
Look for anger.
Cactusflower
Beloved Grand Eagle
ligamentum flavum buckling = normal part of the aging process
degenerative discs = normal part of the aging process
foraminal narrowing = a natural result of disc changes and part of the aging process
As for Osteo, your doctor should be able to help you manage it very well, it too for some folks can be part of aging.
Part of aging - meaning that even 20 year olds have many of these normal abnormalities.
How do you shake this image. You keep telling yourself that you need to move forward in life, you need to be able to function without fear and to move your body so that you can meet your personal goals and enjoy life. It takes time, but those images do fade and their meaning softens as you do the TMS work to recognize why this has become a hyperfixation for you, why it's difficult to let it go and how things like this can hang on in the mind and "ruin your well being".
As @Baseball65 says, "You're just scared. we all were...Just keep reading Sarno and doing the work."
I've had many MRI's on my spine over the years when the Dr's had me scared sh*tless about how I'd be completely dysfunctional. The weird thing is, I'd be diagnosed with things like severe osteo and the last two MRI's there is no sign, 0 sign of it at all. Where'd it go? I never treated it medically (I didn't even know about TMS then!). I was told I had some cysts - not what kind or that they are harmless...and these are the kinds of cysts that almost EVERYONE has. Completely harmless, just little nodules. I was diagnosed with degenerative discs - well that disappeared in many places and the last MRI that didn't "show up" but another horrible terrible diagnoses did.... that's when I began to think there was something weird going on....it made no sense. My focusing on it made no sense either. I let it eat at me, stopped doing things I loved and my world got smaller....and smaller.
Once I did the work and my world got larger, those pictures faded from my mind.
Thank you both so much. these are very helpful and comforting responses. Too often we just get in our own way.