@rwinney I am about to try what you would call advanced hypnosis, where the person running it helps try to have your body modify what it feels. >99% of what your body does is all subconscious. You do not have to think about breathing, heart beating, body healing, digesting food, growing hair, etc. People may think treatment is something way out there, but I have seen his work where, after a year, he was able to help a person who had brain damage partially remap his patient's brain to take up the slack for what was lost during the injury. If we think about meditation, those highly skilled people can almost stop their heartbeat, reduce pain, and elevate to another way of thinking by using their minds. I believe with all the improvements we have made in medicine, maybe we have forgotten what our bodies can do. We know, for example, that opioids can worsen your pain over time as our brain gets retrained a little that we are in pain, and without the tablet, our pain will be wrong. Those of us with chronic pain where there is no time frame to its end are dependent on pain relief, not addicted to pain relief.

The mind is a powerful tool; just like a computer, we can reprogram certain aspects. I am not sure we really know to what extent. When you run out of alternatives, you educate yourself on what else exists. I am not a doctor but by education, I am a scientist, and as such, I seek out answers through data. Will this treatment help? I have no idea, but I have seen evidence that some remarkable changes have occurred in others. It would be fantastic if you could teach the brain that the pain signals are not that your body is in a stressful or damaged situation, but that it is now what is normal and to chill out on the pain signals we are under day in and day out.

I am not a spiritual person or one who chases miracles by religion but hell if I can find a solution to my pain through a benign no risk treatment, I am all for it.