I Was Told Back Pain Could Be 80 Percent Psychological Is That True

What advice would a 70 or 80 year old person give about the way the life should be lived?

I’m 78, and wondering how I could give good and useful advice to much younger people. First, I don’t remember much of my own childhood and youth; my gaze has always been focused forward, inward, or directly on the project/problem at hand — hardly ever backward. I suspect that what I’ve learned from my life, remembered or forgotten, isn’t going to be all that relevant to people young enough now to live into the very different, very demanding world that they’re inheriting from us oldies.A few general principles, maybe — some things that helped me learn (and changes are coming upon us so thick and fast that learning and learning fast is going to be more important than ever.Pay attention (just another version of “Be Here Now”). Don’t dawdle around in your head until a good time for that comes along. Instead, look out of your eyes — outward, at what’s going on around you more than at what’s going on in you (though both are valuable).Try not to be an arrogant putz. No matter how tall, strong, sexy, handsome, educated, naturally brilliant, talented, well-connected, or independent etc. you are, you aren’t actually *better* than anyone else. Everyone is fighting his or her battles, winning some and losing some, and you *can’t* walk in their shoes and yhey can’t walk in yours — so do the least mount of judging others that you can.Ask the next question (the next question is often “why”, but the answers are often uncomfortable or flat-out dismaying, so people prefer to stop at “what” or “how”. Don’t).Respect your body. It’s both tough and perishable. You might have to live in it for 100 yrs or more. That long home stretch can be a bastard, if you’ve been careless about your health and undisciplined about what you eat and drink and what physical risks you knowing take.The hardest part is figuring out what *not* to get obsessed by. You only have so much time to live (no matter how long that turns out to be), and so much energy to spend, and gradually you’ll learn that there are places and causes that may be very worthy and important but that also drain your energy without advancing things in the direction you desire. But that’s different for everybody, and you can only work it out by living your life.

Are medical doctors usually able to tell whether a patient is genuinely sick or just pretending to be sick?

I'm going to answer this 1 because I see a trend in the answers given. That trend being patients lie and fake problems. This is not the only case.There are some patients who are just plain misdiagnosed as being okay medically when they are not.Two examples from my own experiences:I couldn't stay awake, was sleeping all the time. Was sent to a sleep specialist. They Dxed me as having insomnia. I saw a psychiatrist who specialized in sleep issues once a week for 6 months. It helped not at all. It took 5 years more before a different doctor said you have sleep apnea and we need a sleep study. So 5 extra years for me to suffer from sleep apnea because a sleep specialist did not run a sleep study on me.I spent about 10 years seeing doctors of just about every speciality for a wide range of symptoms: low BP, nausea and vomiting, low nonfasting blood sugar, exhaustion. As the years went on the symptoms got much worse and more were added to the list. All I was ever told was I was just fine, that nothing was wrong with me, I should see a psychiatrist. Even when my BP dropped to 70/40, my weight tanked (lost more than 30% of my body weight in 3 months and it kept dropping) and I had serious trouble even staying conscious all I was told was that I was fine. In the end I was Dxed by a cover your butt test done by 1 doctor before he turfed me. Turned out I was cortisol insufficient. That in any person or doctor's opinion should not be “you're fine”. I even had ER visits while I was having what turned out to be a cortisol crisis and they missed it too. Now I take cortisol daily and those symptoms are gone. They were not in my head, I was not faking or malingering. Something was very wrong with me.I understand that cortisol insufficiency is a bit of a rarity but come on. I was a walking billboard for the symptoms for it.So in general doctors can tell if patients are really sick or not. But not always and in some cases they really screw it up badly.For the doctors out there - if you measure a patient's BP and it is 70/40 don't tell the patient when they ask “how low is too low?” that it all depends. 70/40 is too low no matter what and you need to figure out why it is that low.Sometimes the patient (who knows their own body better than anyone else can) is absolutely correct when they tell you something is very wrong with them.

What are the main causes of scoliosis and hip pain?

In many cases, the cause of scoliosis cannot be determined. Among those individuals with scoliosis in whom a cause can be determined, the most common are: 1. Cerebral palsy, a group of nervous system disorders that affect movement, learning, hearing, seeing, and thinking.2. Muscular dystrophy, a group of genetic disorders those results in muscle weakness3. Spinal injuries or infections4. People with a family history of scoliosis are more likely to develop the condition. Girls are more likely to have a more severe form of scoliosis than boys are.Less commonly, hip pain may be caused by:the bones of the hip rubbing together because they're abnormally shaped, a condition called femoroacetabular impingementa tear in the ring of cartilage surrounding the socket of the hip joint known as a hip labral tear.hip dysplasia – where the hip joint is the wrong shape, or the hip socket isn't in the correct position to completely cover and support the top of the leg bonea hip fracture – this will cause sudden hip pain and is more common in older people with weaker bones .an infection in the bone or joint, such as septic arthritis or osteomyelitis. see your GP immediately if you have hip pain and fever.reduced blood flow to the hip joint, causing the bone to break down – a condition known as osteonecrosis.inflammation and swelling of the fluid-filled sac (bursa) over your hip joint – a condition called bursitis.

Is there any scientific proof for reincarnation?

Reincarnation is not a religion but a highly complex system of training souls. The whole point of the “system” is that you are not supposed to remember your past lives. The universe wants you to experience each life fresh with a new perspective that’s not influenced by your immediate prior life. As such, there is no scientific proof, just anecdotal information. If you don’t believe that reincarnation exists, the controllers of the “system” could not be happier.Every life is pre-planned like a big 3D SIMS game to ensure that you are put in an environment to work on the specific spiritual lessons that will improve your soul. You are not judged for being a good or bad guy in a particular life because you need “bad guys” to set up the challenges that “good” guys must overcome. As the channeled spirit of the American Indian Shem once told me , “There is no right or wrong, if your spiritual growth requires that you play the part of a “bad” person, then that is what you are supposed to do”.Psychics mediums have access to past life information. Every psychic medium knows that reincarnation is real. We often make jokes to one another about our past life foibles. I was working at a psychic fair last weekend and encountered a butchy lesbian psychic. She shared with me that she was a knight several times in the past and admitted that she hated her female body in this life. She missed the good old days. We had a great time comparing notes as I also spent lives as a less than honorable knight. In fact, I wrote a whole book about how my past life sins directly influenced the romantic long term love relationships in my present life.Many people argue against reincarnation and I was first on that list before my spiritual awakening. Some people argue that there are not enough souls to populate the earth. The answer to that assertion is that there’s far more souls than slots available on earth. There’s actually a waiting list to come down here and many souls choose NOT to incarnate here because Earth’s tests are just too hard. But by going through these earth experiences, your soul advances faster and as the Spirits have told me, “rank has its privileges”. So there definitely is a payoff for going through the garbage that we do down here.