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All I had to do was read the book, but it was super miraculous and not everyone has it that easy. There's some stuff worth checking out on the tms wiki, you can read recovery stories from others (a fair few for rsi/tendonitis/cts) and there's a programme to help you out there too. The forums are a good place to go too, people are asking questions and getting answers. Even though those answers can be painfully vague, they make sense if you read it through a TMS lense. A big one I see people parroting constantly is journaling, which is important too to understand why you're feeling this way.
There's a book I picked up called The Great Pain Deception by Steve Ozanich, and that's a much better read than most of Sarno's work. Ozanich seems to take to writing more naturally and being more entertaining than Sarno did. The cover looks so terribly bad, but the words are good.
If you're a podcast listener, there are a couple of podcasts about it. The Mindbody and Fitness podcast, and Mindbody Mastery. Also a few more, but I haven't checked them all out yet.
Finally, there's a facebook group you can join for support and ideas, called TMS - The Mindbody Syndrome.
If you can (depending on where you live), try and get an MRI done. That'll tell you if you do have any damage or trauma to the tendons for definite.
Man is this perfect timing or what!!
READ THIS BOOK ASAP:
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Pain-Deception-Faulty-Medical-ebook/dp/B0075EVN46/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
"The Great Pain Deception" by Steven Ray Ozanich
I bought the ebook for $9.99 this weekend - I am already feeling a reduction in my symptoms (which have bothered me for YEARS!) Don't have a kindle/ereader - no problem - you can download it to your computer or there is a way to read it online (cloud reader?) as well. No excuses man - just read the book - even if you think it is total stupidity.
Since my traumatic experience well - basically if it could break - it broke!! I have had the weirdest collection of physical symptoms - have been checked out so many times - nothing really helped permanently. Also, a lot of things just were never explained. Eventually I had a complete meltdown and was bedridden for 6 months. Have been trying to recover since then...
The deal is - if you have PTSD you must have experienced some horrible trauma. Your anger/other emotions from what happened to you could be expressing themselves as physical symptoms. The key to me was - all of this horrible stuff happened - I felt scared and sad - but I never actually felt anger. Logically I have/had every reason to be anger (rage even) - all of that anger ended up in my back... skin... feet... mouth... headaches... etc. and on and on...
READ THIS BOOK!!!
READ THIS BOOK!!!
EVERYONE READ THIS BOOK!!!
Especially the part where he describes what happened to him in his life. I think you might see a lot of yourself in him. His story is heartbreaking - but it makes so much sense.
How funny is it that we have something terrible in our lives - then "mysteriously" and suddenly become ill or in pain? And we keep going to doctors. But in these cases - we are just so emotionally wounded by what happened - we are not actually sick!!!
I have been dealing with pain in my arms pretty much since I started my first job as a programmer (wrist, elbow, forearm pain) which is 10 years so far. I bought all the exercise tools you can possibly think of and used them on a daily basis to strengthen my arms as many opinions were saying that if it's RSI you need to strengthen supporting muscles. I have Theraband flexbar, Powerball, Armaid, Infra lamp, Resistance bands, dumbbells, Gripmaster Pro, GD Iron Grip Ext 90 (up to 90 kg hand resistance - beautiful grip tool) and of course foam rollers, trigger point balls, electric massagers etc. I tried changing diet, using PC less but nothing made a noticeable difference in the long run. I have also visited physios and chiros where the prescription was a bunch of exercises that I need to do daily but one of them even told me there is no such thing as RSI from the medical standpoint. After doing prescribed exercises it felt better for a time but it went back to the original state - I ascribe that to placebo effect. Oh and I don't want to forget about replacing mouses and keyboard for ergonomic ones and being obsessed with a correct posture.
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Now my journey with TMS. I've been following RSI subreddit for several months now and a few months back one of the members shared his story about RSI and how he got cured by learning about TMS. He was a software engineer as well so I could relate to him. I immediately deep dived in youtube videos about TMS, Dr John Sarno explaining how that works, TMS healing wall where people had a same story and many times same personality which is a very important aspect. I was certain that I have it as well as it fit me like a glove. The pain disappeared by the end of the day. Now, since I know that placebo can trick my brain and reduce pain I didn't want to celebrate just yet. However it's been 3 months now and pain is reduced by 90% on my worst day. It's important to understand that it's not a one time cure that will remove pain for the rest of your life without doing any effort. The effort needs to be focused on your mind and things that you might be bottling up, anxious about, repressed rage etc. In my case, I always like to be the best, everything needs to be perfect, I worry about what people think, I don't like being late or sick and I'm very competitive. That creates a lot of psychological pressure inside me that manifests in pain in various parts of my body (typically where my brain thinks it can hurt because of old injuries or because it knows about diagnosis like RSI).
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The most important bit is to genuinely believe that you have it and stop all the old exercises and treatments that you were doing to fix physiological issue and focus on the mind instead everytime there is pain and try to figure what might be worrying you. There are better resource out there so I'm just gonna toss a few so you know where to start.
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