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Greyhoundgal:
Had a bit of a blip with my back a month ago - was stupidly helping out in the garden and must have twisted awkwardly.  The result was a severe muscle spasm which had me writhing on the floor in agony.  Got a Dr's appointment and saw a locum who was amazed that I hadn't had a scan yet (just an x-ray over a year ago).  He said he was going to refer me but in the meantime gave me a course of Tramadol.  As soon as I got back to work I had a call from the surgery to say that he couldn't refer me for a scan but could refer to a specialist - thought I'd wait for ages.  Had to go back two days later as the pain was completely untouched by the Tramadol and was then given a course of Diazapam - lovely spacy feeling but didn't do anything for the pain.  Two emergency (private) physio sessions later and I went and bought a TENS maching - marvellous thing.  As we were leaving for our break in Norfolk last week a letter came through and I have an appointment to see an ESP physio next Monday who can hopefully try to get me some proper help.  All this has come from two seperate Dr's, one a locum, another was a junior - my own GP seems to think I should grin and bear it and take paracetamol if anything hurts - I could willingly strangle him if he was in the same room at the time I'm almost screaming with pain >:(

CLKD:
HOpefully the physio will show you lifting and bending techniques to practice and use ......... pain spasms should not be endured and if Valium didn't help perhaps a hospital stay on morphine would have been in order!

Joyce:
Hope the physio helps you. Back pain can be horrendous. Tramadol was pretty useless for me for ovarian pain. Paracetamol well nigh  useless for severe pain, so I have every sympathy. 

Elena:
Any chance you could change GP?  You cant rely on locums if this happens again :(

Greyhoundgal:
This is the Extended Scope Physio who is the guy (apparently) that can talk to you about MRI scans (and order them if he thinks it's necessary), the pain-killing injections into the spine and a host of other stuff.  Not a physio session at all and I already have all the exercises to do from the one I saw last time.  Those, coupled with starting the gym and Pilates have kept me out of trouble since November last year.  The chronic pain just starts to get you down a bit - I can honestly say that every second of every minute of every hour of every day it's painful to a greater or lesser degree.  So far the only thing I've found that helps at all is Paramol which you can buy over the counter, nothing else has touched the pain and I've tried most things now - morphine patches was the next step but I really wasn't sure about those - can you still cope with day to day life on them, i.e. driving, working etc?

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