Tarlov Cyst, Maigne’s Syndrome and Back Pain

My Journey… While this may seem off-topic, those suffering debilitating pain may find value in my experience the past 3 years, both physically and mental-emotionally. I have now vastly improved, with remaining symptoms being mostly and usually just irritating, comparatively. (See 2023 update below). I’m going to try to give practical advice and a time-line of events of what happened and what I learned. These are mostly from posts I made in the Tarlov Society of Canada facebook group. (This is NOT medical advice, do not take it to be such. It’s an accounting of my journey through back and perineal pain.) Six crucial learnings are… 1) Imaging is not diagnosis, and may be meaningless to symptoms That things found …

Joy in Sickness

Joy in Sickness Last night, for the first time since learning how to awaken joy, I felt physically sick, and the phenomena was fascinating. It may have been the orange juice and iron pill that triggered the “pained feeling” in my stomach, which  became an overall feeling of sickness so quickly that I did not notice the switch–until I began the practice.  As I went inside to seek a better feeling, it was almost like the stomach pain separated from the sickness feeling. As the good feeling grew, the sickness feeling faded, disappeared, and then even the stomach pain felt far away. When I stopped practicing, the sickness feeling returned! So I continued feeling good (while noticing the distant “pain”), …