Firstly let me apologise the the lengthy post my mood is rock bottom right now and I need a safe space to air everything! I should also note I'm in the UK so a lot of the medical services are very different than what I would get quite easily in the US . I have suffered with bouts of lower back and hip pain for as long as I can remember it would flare up if be on tablets and then would ease off in a week or so, but last week (10th) I woke up at 2am with the most horrific back pain like my hips had been completely locked and unable to move . Fast forward to today and I'm still exactly the same I just can't bare it any more I'm not getting the slightest bit of pain relieved from anything they are giving me: Naproxen 500 twice a day Diazepam 2mg 3 x a day (5 days only) Paracetamol Tramadol Robaxin 8 x a day
I should not this has been what they have tried I'm not taking this whole thing right now and nothing is even taking the edge off.
Thad an awful experience where I was stuck on the floor with no one to take me to hospital so had to call for an ambulance as the gp said he took 10 hours to arrive and insisted hospital couldn't help, he wouldn't transport me and it was "just back pain" I just have to be mobile as much as it hurts . I'm trying to be mobile as much as possible even if it mean screaming in against while I drag my feet along the floor.
I ended up in a&e last night as had an episode of bowel incontinence, after several checks they determined it was down to recent fistula surgery and not a nerve /back emergency . I left the er with 5 days of diazepam and more naproxen even though I said it doesn't do anything !! I'm at a point where I feel like I'm going crazy !! They gave me 2 doses of oral morphine in the waiting room and were like and you're still in pain? YES!! I'm not lying and not after drugs all I want is something to give me enough reliet that I can walk slowly and start to feel little parts of the day where I'm not in searing pain!
I should note I had an MRI in feb this year due to hip pain and it showed 3 bulging discs, dehydration of the discs, nerve impinge on 2 locations etc, but nothing ever happened with that they never followed up? Never even gave me my results I happened to stumble across them in my nhs app by mistake !
Sorry for the crazy ramblings I just feel like I'm losing my marbles now, surely something should give me some kind of relief from pain even the tinest bit 😞 I’m just at a loss of what to do now