Alternative Cure for Sequestered Disc Fragment

My doctor immediately sent me to a neurosurgeon, who checked me out and then told me that I may need surgery. I refused the surgery, but I went into panic mode. I suffered through 8 months of excruciating pain, pain killers that made me sick, NSAIDs that gave me severe stomach pain. Then my husband comes home with a book. Healing Back Pain by Dr. Sarno, he had heard about this book many years ago on Howard Stern's radio show.

I screamed at my husband and told him,my MRI shows a disc fragment laying on my thecal sac in my Lumbar spine, how can this pain be caused psychologically? I didn't touch the book for days. Finally after a day straight of crying in pain, I picked it up. I began to read, and I saw myself on the pages. I was the exact personality type for TMS. I read the book and I stopped taking the nerve pain pills and stopped the IBU and opiate pain killers. For three days I suffered like I never suffered before. I had the pills in my hand many times, but I fought through it. Slowly as I read, I was able to finally accept that the pain was caused by my brain and that the sequestered disc was just a scapegoat for my mind to bring the pain on.

I just finished Dr Sarno's Mindbody Prescription and I am about 75% cured. I have the pain under control. I still have pain at times, I tell my brain to cut it out, I don't need help to deal with my emotions, and bye, bye pain. Hope this helps someone -Carmela