My problems are minute to most on here, so I almost feel embarrassed bringing my issues up here. But I’ve been living with serious back pain for 14 months now, and it has got ridiculous, and I think it might cost me my employment soon enough.
Ive tried everything that you could possibly recommend, apart from maybe sustained weight lifting to strengthen my muscles, which is of course problematic anyway as doing weights can very easily exacerbate the problem.
I’ve had two MRI’s, went to physio both privately and on NHS. Been referred to a ‘pain specialist’ but only spoken to a nurse on the phone so far, as my appointment was cancelled because of Covid.
I take 200mg of tramadol every morning, it had been helping until recently but now achieves next to nothing. I can’t sit up without support. I sometimes take diazepam as well, but even that has stopped working. I’d be off work now if it wasn’t for Covid, working from home allows me to blag my way out of everything.
It’s causing me a lot of physical pain but even more emotional heart ache. Unemployment is on the horizon, which will take things to a different level of crap.
I want something that will just take the effing pain away and allow me to do my job again. I suggested methadone to the nurse as it has very good reviews online (as an analgesic, not a maintenance treatment) but she pretty much said no chance. She said I might be able to get the tramadol on the NHS, which I currently get from the internet, but that’s about it. I didn’t even mention the diazepam to her because it would only make them more reluctant to prescribe if I did.