And by the way, if every conventional treatment has a placebo effect as you say, maybe mindbody is also a placebo. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me.
You always found that stuff goofy so how do you know it would not have worked for you? You read Sarno's book and immediately concluded it is quackery. Let me remind you that a chiropractor made you pain free for 24 hours before surgery. What a miracle when your nerve was apparently so damaged and entrapped at multiple locations.
I have no problem believing in PNE as a consequence of a botched surgery, mesh, or a bad accident. When exercising, biking, carrying a coffee table, or sneezing, I have serious doubts. Dr. Rodney Anderson at Stanford says PNE exists but is
excessively rare.
There are major inconsistencies in this PNE theory. 3 years to heal from surgery? Even Dellon or Filler say that is a joke. You can't conclude it is the surgery that helped you 3 years later.
Look I am not diagnosing you with a mindbody syndrome but you cannot deny the fact that catastrophizing and anxiety prior to surgery may have had an amplification effect on your pain or that surgery was not 100% responsible for your recovery.
Maybe you have never had a nerve block, Ezer, so I wouldn't blame you if you don't understand exactly how they are given
You are visibly not reading my posts. I had 6 pudendal nerve blocks. Weiss, Jordan, Filler, Sherry. Guided, non-guided, MRI guided. I had the entire gamut. They
always contained an anesthetic.
They all told me that the bupivicaine/steroid combination was to block pain signals short term trying to reset the nervous system and provide pain relief, reduce the inflammation long term, and also to try to expand the area in case of scar tissue entrapment. In fact Filler injected a third chemical to help with scar tissue. After the anesthetic wore off I was in terrible pain for weeks.
They pick bupivicaine (Marcaine) because it has the longest half-life of all anesthetics.
Of course the bupivicaine was to both ease pain and to diagnose.
As Andy and Chenonceau have pointed out, medicine is still evolving,
I read French. You don't. It is obvious that de Bisschop is flip flopping and that Nantes is trying to expedite things by skipping the steroid injection so that they can quickly perform surgery without a 2nd visit. It is a factory there. This is not science and progress at work.
With this great advance in diagnostic, does the surgery work better. No. 15% success rate 10 years ago and 15% now.
You know Ezer, it is inappropriate to be insisting to Andy that more than any other poster on this forum you think he has somatoform pain syndrome. And I cringe when you tell Andy he's going to have a tough time healing if he's a moderator.You need to tone it down Ezer, or the moderators will ban you again for personally attacking people again. This is in violation of the terms of use for this forum.
I have attacked Andy? In what way? I am just saying that what he posted screams mindbody syndrome. I am not saying he has a mindbody syndrome. Have I used aggressive language? Inappropriate language? Profanities? Foul language? Bad words? vulgar language? lewd language? Expletives? Threatening language? No.
PNE-doubting is decidedly a heinous crime on this forum.
Please ban me just like you have banned ezer (me) and DaveM the RE instructor for offering an alternative explanation and not bowing to the enlightened PNE-physician advisers and their inflated success rate.
15% surgery success rate Violet. It is a disaster.
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
S.Freud
