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I came here to say this, thanks. Sometimes I hesitate from posting about this because It's a very sensitive topic. The reason for your pain might be totally dif
by pacomerh 6y ago
I came here to say this, thanks. Sometimes I hesitate from posting about this because It's a very sensitive topic. The reason for your pain might be totally different from mine and I hate to assume what worked for me would work for you, etc. In any case, I was also changed by reading Sarno's books and that's the interesting part.
My pain started in my chest, left and right. Then it transitioned to the center, I went to the ER thinking I was having a heart attack. Got blood tests and studies done. In the following months the pain took over other parts of my body and my arms, legs and back were hurting a lot. I was having a very hard time working, I had to ask for a couple of weeks off and try to figure out what was going on.
Sometimes the pain would go away for a few hours and then come back. I didn't have a clue of what was going on because I couldn't find a consistent pattern, it was just moving everywhere and I couldn't even play with my kid, which was killing me.
I was browsing YouTube and was reading about this guy that had Carpal Tunnel, I was curious because I was trying to avoid making my pain worse. So when I was reading the comments, I saw someone wrote something like "Read Sarno's book and thank me later".
I was intrigued and started reading about him. I started with his book: The Divided Mind. From there it all started to change gradually. I found a local physician that specializes in TMS, and that help me so much. after a few weeks it all started to fade away considerably. Today I feel great. All this happened in a period of like 8 months.
- monoideism 6y agoIn your case, I could definitely see the mind-body connection. And even in the case of some carpal tunnel. But I went over some Sarno-related forum, and the mainstream view seems to be that pretty much all chronic neuropathic pain (including all NCV and EMG-confirmed pain) and all chronic musculoskeletal pain (including structural issues on x-ray) are mind-body. And there's a significant nutty minority who seems to think even some cancer and such is mind-body. Also, how does it explain people who have chronic pain, then surgery, then they never experience pain again? I'd like to buy into this, but that just seems vaccine conspiracy level crazy - overly simplistic for most cases to say the least. Maybe I'm wrong. That said, I do strongly believe that your state of mind has a huge impact with how you deal with chronic pain. I know that's true.