Knee Pain

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Good morning, I am looking for help, encouraging and guidance, and kindness, I have pain in both of my knees for 4 years, I suffer so much, I am a mom, I need to work, the first 3 years the pain was on my sides , it make mw sit is so painful, I used to exercise and I can even go for walks with my kids , last year the pain is in front of my knees, sometimes if my back hurts the knee pain goes away but always come back, I do have marriage problems and it hurts so much because I feelmsad for my children, I also work with kids with soecial needs and is a demanding job, walking , standing up, etc, I want to believe is TMS, but i read scary things, so many structural problems can happen in knees and I am not convinced that is TMS, I read all the books , I saw Dr Sarno when i was young for back pain and i got better 2 weeks later, I had xrays thrue this years and they are normal etc, but the oain is so much and i cant stop thinking and been scared, I just dont know what to do anymore Thank you

 

[Adam Coloretti (coach)]

Good morning, I am looking for help, encouraging and guidance, and kindness, I have pain in both of my knees for 4 years, I suffer so much, I am a mom, I need to work, the first 3 years the pain was on my sides , it make mw sit is so painful, I used to exercise and I can even go for walks with my kids , last year the pain is in front of my knees, sometimes if my back hurts the knee pain goes away but always come back, I do have marriage problems and it hurts so much because I feelmsad for my children, I also work with kids with soecial needs and is a demanding job, walking , standing up, etc, I want to believe is TMS, but i read scary things, so many structural problems can happen in knees and I am not convinced that is TMS, I read all the books , I saw Dr Sarno when i was young for back pain and i got better 2 weeks later, I had xrays thrue this years and they are normal etc, but the oain is so much and i cant stop thinking and been scared, I just dont know what to do anymore Thank you

Hi! It's great that you've had the x rays (that should settle some of the fear you have around it being structural) - given you've clearly already had TMS (with your back), that makes this more likely to be TMS also.

Can you point to any increased stress or a specific stressful incident when this all started or got considerably worse? Did something happen physically instead at these times that is confusing you?

Last initial question - I assume that given you got better two weeks later from seeing Dr Sarno that this was because he instilled the belief in you that it was TMS, as opposed to it being due to emotional work. Did you do any emotional work at the time or afterwards, or because you got better so quickly was it left alone? That can be a clue as to what you need