RSD/CRPS, AFib, hashimoto 100% recovered

Dear all

I already have written a letter to John Sarno with my success story, but never posted it in this forum.

I should have posted my success story here before, but when you get pain free, you stop coming here.

After getting married, my wife was placed in a job location far away from Lisbon. We were separated for two years. By that time I start having high periods of great anxiety, and depression. In one of those episodes I remember vuvidly feeling a strange burning sensation through my body. I took some anxiety pills and it went away. You will understand how this relates to my pain.

In 2009, after my son was born, I start having some cardiac arrhythmias (AFib) which lead me to the hospital several times. By that time, I remember going to several doctors, and having my left ear constantly burning. I eventually forget it and continue with my life. By that time I also developed hashimoto thyroiditis, which also went away.

After that stressful period, I start running and working out, at home, with dumbbells. On one particular exercice, I felt an electric shock through both my arms, but I continue doing until one day, I wake up with both my arms burning.

I went to every doctor I could find, and the more I went to doctors, the more pain I had, that is, the more burning my arms felt. They start snapping in the elbows area, where I first felt the electric shock. Doctors didn't find and structural damage, other than, thinking my arms were a little bit stiff, and have mild discoloration in my hands . I did all kind of exams, like electromyography, etc. they were all fine.

I was super anxious, trying to find a reason for that mysterious burning sensation, and so, the pain increased. I also had brain fog. I was thinking about my arms/pain 24/7

One day, I did a full body Tuina massage, and after that the burning extended to my full body. Fortunately, it was only for a day or two. What the hell is the matter with me? I thought to my self. I wanted to get better desperately, and everything I try to do was making me worse..and that burning feeling....

I keep doing Dr shopping, and I remember going to another gp specialist and when I was leaving the place, I start limbing. Wtf?!? My symptoms seemed random. My body felt stiff. It even burn when I pied...

During that time, these strange symptoms (alodynia, burning, numbness, etc) , that I now know, it's called neuropathic pain, because it involves blood restriction to the nerves, came and go, but my pain never left my arms, and my snapping elbows. By that time I made an effort to move my arms normally, because I already knew about RSD.

To cut a long story short, I was in pain for several months, until I'V heard about TMS, and John Sarno. At that time I used the TMShelp forum not this one, and talked with Steve O, tennis Tom, Dave, Balto, Ace, altherrunner, etc.
But even In 2012, I still didn't believe fully, that I had TMS. I still believe I had nerve damage, or ulnar nerve neurophathy.

Anyway, My elbows continue to snap. It was a reminder that my pain was still there. One thing is to know about Sarno, and about big pharma lies, when they label stuff as syndromes, but the other is to loose your fear from the pain, and from what your mind can do to you.

However, everytime I read, and reread John's Sarno's books, my elbows stop snapping. And also, every time I distract myself from pain. When I caught, when I play with my son, the pain suddenly vanished, And then, fortunately, I read about an RSD success story on one of John Sarno's books. Yes! If this woman can recover I can recover too.

By that time, i got to a point that I were convinced that I had TMS. And that RSD/CRPS, among others, are nothing more than TMS, even cancer.

After this I distract myself with something I'm really passionate about (making comic videos), and fully recovered. I start working out again. I forgot the pain.

CURE: calm down your system, resume life again with confidence. Change your focus from pain by contemplating. You cannot have two thoughts at the same time in your head. With the momentum, your mind grab the positive and healthy thoughts and pain/fear/anxiety goes away.

Keep your mind busy with something, like writing a book on the subject.

It was the mind and your thoughts that put you in pain, but it is the mind that will also set you free.


People have book cures because they forget about the pain, they trust the doctor, and loose their fear instantly. So forget about sentitization. It's just a myth. It's all about cha gong your thoughts and stop scaring yourself.

The key word for "curing" yourself (well, it's human condition, you don't have to cure nothing) it's LETTING GO!

I use to have minor relapses, everytime I come back from Holiday, and restart working. Until I had no relapse at all.

For me, chronic pain is caused by anxiety, and it's perpetuated by fear and doubt. You have to forget the pain, because it's the way you cure yourself. 100% confidence it is TMS, and then resume living your life normally. You will be cured, I can promise you that.

Big pharma scares us a lot, with all these labels, these Nocebo weapons, because they know fear give them profit, give them more sick people, and healthy people don't go look for them.

Ps: I also recover from hashimoto. I was 34 , I'm now in my fifties.

PS2: I don't believe in central sentitization. What I think is that we fill our subconscious mind with fear, and anxiety, like a farmer plants a garden, and with time, and intention we replace those fearful thoughts with healthy ones.

Relapses: avoid anxiety at all costs. Avoid fearful thoughts. STOP ruminating on your health when you are not in pain and on your symptoms if you have pain.

NEVER obsess with your health or with a physical symptom, otherwise it won't go away, and your pain will come back. When you feel your body stiff, and your bones snapping, it is a sign of anxiety. You have to calm down your system.

 

Fantastic! I’m just beginning my recovery but noticing the same thing, when I read Sarno, symptoms seem to lessen. When I fixate my (intense, ADD) attention elsewhere in my body, or on the world around me, I forget my symptoms. When I forget my symptoms, they may as well not exist—until they don’t. Thank you for sharing.

 

That's the key. Contemplate the world around us, to change focus from pain