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Herniated Disc Suffering
My Herniated Disc SufferingI started to experience severe back pain at age 16. I was not diagnosed with herniated discs right away. This took until I was in my early 20’s. I remember injuring my back in the martial arts around this time and felt a sharp and burning pain in my lumbar spine. After this occurrence, the MRI confirmed 2 herniated discs at L4/L5 and L5/S1. The acute pain lasted for some time, but eventually changed and became more of a chronic concern. After the resolution of that painful episode, I went back to suffering from the same old acute flare ups of back pain as I had before. It was unpredictable and often sprang up at the worst times…Of course, due to the nocebo effect of the diagnostic process, my pain became steadily worse. Now, I had an even worse condition on which to blame my pain. Instead of just degenerative disc disease, now I had 2 bulging discs. Your Herniated Disc SufferingMost patients fit into one of 2 categories. There are those with a long history of idiopathic back pain who are eventually diagnosed with a herniated disc and those who suddenly injure their backs and are diagnosed with a bulging disc. Either way, once the condition has been confirmed, pain typically gets worse and becomes chronic. After the diagnosis, patients have a REAL REASON to be scared and now live everyday in fear of a recurrence of the dreaded pain. All this fear and anxiety creates a tremendous amount of internal tension, which in turn intensifies and perpetuates the pain condition far into the patient’s future…Do you have a herniated disc which has not responded to treatment? I bet the answer to many or all of these questions is “YES”… Ending Herniated Disc SufferingThe facts about herniated discs are simple and easy to understand. They make it clear that herniated discs due to normal spinal degeneration are rarely painful AT ALL and become a problem mostly through the diagnostic nocebo effect or some other psychosomatic causation. The facts also tell us that herniated discs due to traumatic injury can be painful for a time, but almost never cause long term symptoms. Once again, the pain continues as a direct result of either the diagnostic nocebo effect or some psychosomatic perpetuation process.Most patients can not comprehend how such a seemingly physical pain could possibly be linked to an emotional process. This is where the patient loses all hope of ever finding a cure… Instead of researching the easy cure available from the proven and popular
knowledge therapy
method; patients descend into the downward spiral of progressively more drastic and invasive medical
disc pain treatments.
They do this despite the well known poor curative results offered by most back pain therapies and especially the failures of many
herniated disc surgeries.
7/12/08 Revised 12/22/09
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