Spinal Stenosis Diagnosis

[Moppy]

How wonderful danny that you have found a place within yourself where you feel safe and sound. That's so important as that security inderpins our sense of wellbeing. Many of us can spend a lifetime looking in all sorts of places for that deep security and comfort without realizing that it is within us, and always has been. Well done and thank you for sharing.

 

[epotz]

I was also diagnosed with stenosis, herniated discs, etc. I just had a steroid spinal epidural less than a month ago out of complete desperation. I have to be honest and say it helped. Now, it just so happened that the week after I had it, I also discovered Dr. Sarno's book, so it could be a complete coincidence, I'll just never know. Even Sarno said, painkillers are sometimes necessary to start people on the road to recovery - get pain relief enough to stop concentrating on the physical and start concentrating on the emotional - I feel like this may have been the case for me personally. I feel like my steroid epidural was my true wake up call to all of this pain, and the endless doctors visits. Injections were my last step before surgery - which is completely out of the question for me. I have now truly exhausted all of my options from a medical standpoint, so in turn, I became 100% ready for this program. But that's just me!
I would actually hold off on the injection if you can. I would like to have seen if I would have been feeling as good as I have with just the SEP program, as opposed to doing both at the same time. Ultimately, you have to do what's best for you. We all heal differently.

I also had a spinal shot and it did help, along with the Tramadol and Aleve, but I still can't walk more than a block or so without terrible leg pain and back discomfort. So I am very eager to be going to my appointment with Dr. Rashbaum next week (a four hour drive away!) as there are shockingly no TMS MDs in the Boston area that I can find! I need to be done with vacillating between thinking I am a perfect candidate for TMS and thinking my stenosis is so bad I'm cooked. Have begun the structured education program on this site (SEP?) and love it but keep hearing it won't work unless I "believe." I have not had the neurological screening yet but need to. Thank goodness for this forum. Dr. Sarno's books talk more about discs than stenosis.