DH had years of back pain, eventually doing PT, surgery, a new bed, new chairs, etc. At one point he even had a PA tell him it was due to a prostate infection and he ended up at a urologist who was ...very confused why he was there. His back pain was followed by knee pain, PT, surgery, etc., which was then followed by 18 months of foot pain. (You can follow some of his story in my various older posts). When his podiatrist started talking foot surgery he got really scared and did a lot of research/self education. He was quite taken with the book Crooked, which he felt reflected a lot of his experiences and has ultimately decided that much of his pain is a manifestation of psychological pain. (That's not to say that you wouldn't see issues with his spine or knee or foot on an MRI, but rather that the magnitude of pain wasn't in line necessarily with the injury). After a lot of hard, hard work and therapy he's rarely in pain now and when he is he can usually pinpoint what conflict or stress in his life is causing it. I mention this not to dismiss all the other real physical possible causes of pain but - it's been a tough year and I've noticed an uptick in the number of people in my life complaining about back pain and I've wondered how many people are going through something similar to what he did. It's been really incredible to see the transformation he's gone through the last 2 years.
~ Dawn
Our little monkey (4/2011) & his early holiday present 12/12