Cured Chronic Migraines! I Now Have My Life Back. Thank you Sarno!!!!!!

There are few moments in your life when it can completely change like switching on a light. You then live your life in terms of before this event and after this event. Events like having children.. meeting your soulmate..etc. Reading this book was truly one of those events in my life. I now look at everything in terms of mindbody and TMS. I think of my life in terms of before I read this book and after. Getting a migraine was another light switch moment. One night when I was 32 I had a pounding migraine and it never went away. I suffered with some form of a migraine every day for the next 6 1/2 years. I tried everything you can possibly imagine. My whole life revolved around my migraines and the prevention or suffering of them. Once I read this book I knew I had the answer. Like many other people I saw myself on every page. I did some googling and found the tmswiki.org site. I did the Structured Educational Program and read Steve Ozonich's book The Great Pain Deception. I've been following the approach for about a year and a half and can proudly say that I have my life back. I went from having about 3 full blown migraines a week, sometimes lasting 9 days in a row to having maybe one a month. I even go months without having one. I know that one day I will not even think of them any more but that time will come. I try to not put too much pressure on myself any more. It also cured my anxiety, chronic neck pain, allergies, and asthma. This book is so much more than just for back pain. If you suffer from anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia, or stomach issues it also helps.

It works!

My yearlong migraine is finally gone! I recommend this book to everyone.

If you have any type of chronic PAIN read this book.

My wife had headaches for over one year. From the moment she woke up to the moment she went to sleep. Life was hellish. Her neurologist said she had a problem with her neck. Her spinal colum was unbalanced and rubbing against a nerve, resulting in the headaches. He recommended we start with physiotherapy (4 months of treatment), them moved on to a chyropractor (4 months), then tried some medicine (with a nasty side effect - serious weight gain, aggressivity). We even tried acupuncture and massotherapy. Although everything worked a bit at the beginning, her headaches didn't go away. A friend who had been cured from serious bach pain said this book might help. I bought the book for my wife the next day. She read it. The first week there was no improvement. The second week she had slightly fewer headaches. The third week she had almost no headaches. The fourth week she was CURED! It is true, my wife does have a problem with her neck. I've seen the X-rays, all the doctors agreed. BUT this was not the root cause of her pain. PLEASE READ THIS BOOK. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.

Turns out your brain is almost like a different person than you are

Neck pain gone. Headache FROM the neck pain gone. I thought this whole premise was NUTS but after 20 years of pain I was desperate. It started with a car accident. Read then re-read the sections that really "get through" to you until you totally understand it and believe it. It took 3 days (I thought it might take longer since my pain was so severe and long time) When it starts to come back- and this works for me- I close my eyes, concentrate and "tell" it "oh NO>>>> I know what you're doing and where you come from. Stop." Expect it to try and come back. Don't let it intimidate you. Do it every time. Sometimes it will move and try hurting somewhere else! Turns out your brain is almost like a different person than you are. It's got a mind of it's own.... and you have to treat it that way. So weird....

A phenomenal book that has helped me to help myself.

I bought The Mindbody Prescription almost one year ago, and after several months of wrestling with it, I can finally say that the results have been phenomenal. First of all, let me start off by saying that I never buy self-help books. Never. Ever. I bought one a number of years ago and I quickly learned that it was useless. But after a couple of years of suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, I was willing to try anything. Every day I would wake up feeling unbelievably tired and in nonsensical pain. Everything hurt. Everyday I felt that like I had climbed Mt. Everest. I had migraines all the time. I couldn't go more than two hours without lying down. I developed dyspepsia. Some days I suffered from vertigo. I easily felt faint, and I even fainted in public once. I became very sensitive to certain foods, and I lost significant weight. I developed IBS. I couldn't sleep. I became allergic to everything. Back pain was a killer. I bounced from doctor to doctor - medication to acupuncture to moxbusion - I even spent five months in another country seeking help. I'm sure I spent most of my life from 2010 to 2012 in bed. I blew away savings on all sorts of doctors, acupuncturists, and physiotherapists, and spent endless amounts of hours feeling terrible about myself and the world outside. So what happened? I was young, very scared, and very desperate. I couldn't keep a job - how was I going to live? People gave me pity. Sleep and medication brought little relief. I felt useless and damaged, and was ready to do anything. Following a tip from a relative, I turned to prayer. I was on Amazon looking for some summer reads, and somehow, this book appeared to me in the "You might also like.." section. As I said I never buy self-help books so I was quite surprised. For some reason, I clicked on it, and after reading the reviews I thought that this book was calling me to pick it up. A lot of the reviewers talked about overcoming long-term medical conditions like mine, and I thought, "Could this help me?" After googling Dr. Sarno (who I had never heard of before) and reading a few pages online, I decided to order it. Before describing the book I must say that if you think that you are going to read a few pages and suddenly all your chronic pains are going to disappear...then you are mistaken. This book is hard work. Let me repeat: hard, dedicated, work. It requires a continuous and sustained effort to feel the changes. It requires presence of mind and will power. Most of all, it needs you to have an unshakeable belief in yourself, your body, and the power to change. If you are looking for a quick fix, this won't be it. But if you are interested in long-term recovery, then go ahead and give it a try. I promise you its worth it. Reading the book was quite difficult for me. During several key moments, I would shiver and felt very overwhelmed. I had to read the book more than once to understand what he was saying, and I kept re-reading chapters until I thought I could do it. The only problem with the book is that it is not very clear about how you go about making changes in your life. Everybody has to design his/her own method using Sarno's recommendations. The first time I tried to challenge myself and do something I hadn't done before, I quickly fell back to illness. I felt like a failure and gave up for a long time. Weeks later I tried again. This time I didn't give up. If I was tired, I didn't sit down. If it hurt to lift things, I lifted them anyway. If it hurt to eat spices, I'd eat them anyway. If it hurt to wear heals, I wore them anyway. It wasn't easy and it wasn't fun. It took months of repeated exercise and sustained belief. One year later, with deep gratitude and trust I can say that most of my symptoms have disappeared. I can't tell you how thankful and empowered I am. This book has helped me to change my life. A wonderful gift from above. And I hope it helps you too.

Stopped my migraines!

I am a 23 year old woman who has had migraine headaches about 3 times a week for about 6 years. I was referred to Dr. Schubiner and enrolled in the Mind Body Medicine Program. After the 3 week program, my migraines stopped and so did my leg pain!! I am so happy now!

Life changing!

There are thousands upon thousands of products on Amazon, but how many can change your life? This book can do that. I suffered from nagging back and neck pain, debilitating chronic headaches and a frustrating case of TMJ - all sorts of aches and pains - from my teen years to late 20s, despite being young and healthy. Like many, I tried all conventional treatment to no avail and thought my body was broken. I'm interested in a holistic approach to my health, so while seeing my integrative physician for stomach issues (also a common mind-body condition), he suggested this book, as this physician specializes in TMS. I dismissed it at first, but then out of complete desperation and being broke from spending so much money on chiropractic treatments, I ordered this book months later as a hail Mary. I saw the chiropractor for the last time the week I read this book, quitting cold turkey. This book helped me approach and understand pain in ways I never knew possible. Go in with an open mind and you will come out a new person! It's not to say I haven't had pain or a flare up since (I read this book about 8 months ago), but when I feel something coming on, I readjust my thinking based on Sarno's teachings and remember the cause is emotionally based and it eventually goes away. The mind-body approach can take time to really get a handle on, but it's a cure. To anyone debating reading this book: It can't make your pain worse, but it can help it go away, so just try it. There is hope! (Also, check out his recorded lecture online and other helpful resources!)

If you live with chronic pain READ THIS BOOK!!!!

If I could give this book 10 stars I would. 19 years ago my husband suffered a spinal injury in a car accident. We staggered down a twisted path of opiates, muscle relaxants, anti inflammatory drugs and antidepressants as well as 4 surgeries and numerous procedures. Last year he told me he didn't think he'd make it another 10-12 years. He was 51. He saw a pain management psychologist who told him to read this book. The change has been astounding. It is astonishing to realize the amount of power your mind has over your body. If you 100% expect to be in terrible pain then you WILL. The book has given him a way to retrain his mind on what to expect. It's not a quick and simple fix, you have to be open to the concepts and willing to spend time reflecting on the ways that you have locked yourself into these expectations. NOT that your pain isn't real, but you can subconsciously make it so much worse. The change in my husband has been amazing and given us both so much hope for the future!

Conquered my pain thanks to Dr. Sarno

Somewhere around page 120 my back pain, cold extremities and a couple other aches and pains vanished. Discovering the root of my pains via this book turned off my symptoms like a switch. The symptoms came back, but thanks to Dr. Sarno's books I learned a better way to address and treat them. As the months went by, the nagging pains surfaced less and less frequently, until they vanished complete. Allergies, back pain, groin pain, headaches... I've conquered them all. I now know how to beat them down when they try to surface. This book changed my life.