Polydactylkat
Newcomer
Hi all, I’m starting on the SEP and so I’m creating my Day 1 post. It says to keep it brief, so I’ll do my best.
I have read The MindBody Prescription and have a request in at my local library for Healing Back Pain. I completed Week 0.
Admittedly, I’m not at a point where I 100% believe my pain is all psychologically based, but I believe it *can* be, and there are indications it could be so.
The past few days I’ve been educating myself on TMS and I feel like my back pain may have improved some - I did strain a muscle on my right side, which is acute and seems to have a real physical cause; however, my left side seems to have less of the underlying chronic pain I’ve been experiencing for about 7 years now. I also experience upper back/neck pain, which I think may be improving since starting to look into this all, and some rib pain. I fractured my ribs in about 4 years ago. They are healed but I still get pain on and off.
Interestingly, my ribs started acting up (and my back) after I started the Week 0 work and after I started to think I felt an improvement. Perhaps my brain is trying to convince me it’s not psychological, but the fact that my pain is moving around and that it increased just when I started thinking about it decreasing (and when I had to return to work after a long weekend) seems a bit suspicious.
I’ve tried physical therapy, massage and manual therapy, facet joint injections, medications and chiro. Pain still persists.
Looking forward to getting it to stop.
I have read The MindBody Prescription and have a request in at my local library for Healing Back Pain. I completed Week 0.
Admittedly, I’m not at a point where I 100% believe my pain is all psychologically based, but I believe it *can* be, and there are indications it could be so.
The past few days I’ve been educating myself on TMS and I feel like my back pain may have improved some - I did strain a muscle on my right side, which is acute and seems to have a real physical cause; however, my left side seems to have less of the underlying chronic pain I’ve been experiencing for about 7 years now. I also experience upper back/neck pain, which I think may be improving since starting to look into this all, and some rib pain. I fractured my ribs in about 4 years ago. They are healed but I still get pain on and off.
Interestingly, my ribs started acting up (and my back) after I started the Week 0 work and after I started to think I felt an improvement. Perhaps my brain is trying to convince me it’s not psychological, but the fact that my pain is moving around and that it increased just when I started thinking about it decreasing (and when I had to return to work after a long weekend) seems a bit suspicious.
I’ve tried physical therapy, massage and manual therapy, facet joint injections, medications and chiro. Pain still persists.
Looking forward to getting it to stop.
PS. I LOVE poly dactyl Cats!! <3
I’m glad to be here.