Sorry, but you know, I'm gonna call bullshit on "back pain is all in your head" psychology crap. And while I have never read Dr. Sarno, I have had a herniated disc. And if you really have a herniated disc with a ruptured annulus, and the nasty proteins from the rupture are irritating your nerve root, like I had at L5-S1, the pain was EXCRUCIATING and fuck anyone who says it was all in my head.
In 20 years of tri, college athletics before that, I have never, ever, felt anything remotely like that pain, and it brought me to my knees for 3 days. I needed double hits of vicodin to crawl the the shitter, lay on the couch and, hell, to even breathe. I had my friend's hubby carry me into the docs office and to the car as the pain was so bad.
So some doc thinks I dreamed this 2 year nightmare all up because my Mom didn't breastfeed me or some bat-shit crazy psycho babble??? I THINK NOT. What I had was very real and very painful, and only prednisone, vicodin, 2 steroid injections and ultimately, a micro-discectomy could alleviate. Yeah, like I wanted to NOT race for 2 years because it was all in my head. Sorry but that is a crock.
In 20 years of tri, college athletics before that, I have never, ever, felt anything remotely like that pain, and it brought me to my knees for 3 days. I needed double hits of vicodin to crawl the the shitter, lay on the couch and, hell, to even breathe. I had my friend's hubby carry me into the docs office and to the car as the pain was so bad.
So some doc thinks I dreamed this 2 year nightmare all up because my Mom didn't breastfeed me or some bat-shit crazy psycho babble??? I THINK NOT. What I had was very real and very painful, and only prednisone, vicodin, 2 steroid injections and ultimately, a micro-discectomy could alleviate. Yeah, like I wanted to NOT race for 2 years because it was all in my head. Sorry but that is a crock.