Back to the pills (Back Pain)

Member Name: quissue

Product:	Back Pain
Date:	19/01/09 (52 review reads)
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Advantages: can be helpful;

Disadvantages: may be a bit strong for some and some scary side effects

I thought after having Gall stones out some years ago that I would never see another pain like it ever again, HOW WRONG I was!

Recently I had a mishap with my lower back and have been in torment with it eversince.
I managed to put my back into muscular strain and trapped a nerve down one leg in the process.
HOW did I do this I hear you ask? Well I was shovelling coal into my fire with a tiny shovel used for this purpose and then heard this click like crunching noise and then I just couldn't straighten up. Looking at the wall in front of me at a very perculiary angle and wondering what the beeping noises coming out of mouth I was going to do next. I was giving grief verbally to everything in eyeshot.
My husband came into the room and knew in an instant that he had probably made a big mistake.

Poor man tried to help me straighten up and I will give him his due he did not laugh once although it must have looke d beeping comical at the time.
Once upright I could do nothing else I vas vertical and that was the way it would stay for a while at least until I could try and attempt to bend a bit to ease the pain that was now shooting through the base of my spine and heating up the rear of my back and left leg which kept giving away with the trapped nerve.

Hmmm. I could not go to work it this state so I made an immediate appointment with the local casualty department as directed by our healthline and duely sought out the doctor on duty.
One look told her I had pulled the muscles in my lower back and trapped the sciatic nerve. This could cause quite intense pain she said. NO KIDDING thinks I. She gives me so many packs of pills that I am now swimming in some kind of la la land and finding staying awake the bigger problem at the momment.
Pain under some control although finding the right pills to stop constipation sickness and other nasty side effects is becoming challenging.
I am at present in deep sympathy with anyone who has ever suffered such pain and am ashamed to have thought previously that ok so you have a back ache so what.
SO WHAT I SOON FOUND OUT it is not just a back ache it is excruciating and something I have never encountered properly before.

I am waiting to go to see a physiotherapist and something called the Puffin Pool? It is apparently a place where you get water therepy treatment and is supposed to help heal the damaged muscles and nerves.

If like me you need pretty powerful painkillers do take the advice your doctor tells you seriously as some of the painkillers can be more of a problem than the pain.
I was on Diazepam for a short while - These are a muscle relaxant and anti depressant, strangely though they had the opposite effect on me and I got very depressed.
Also I was on Dihydrocodine a very strong pain killer which worked reasonably well except I was then bound up making the problem worse.
and the night time whammy for sleeping at night amitriptyline
another anti depressant and pain relaxer.
Today I went back to the doctor to get some of these pills altered due to the wonderful effect they were having on me and to get the pain back under control.
Still on Amitriptyline for the night time now upped to two last thing at night to help the depression and sleeping.
One pill called lansoprazole taken once a day in the morning to help with my digestion and reducing the possible effects of ulcers and other side effects other pills may have whilst trying to relieve my back problems. And the wonder drug Diclofenac for the greater pain relief which must not be taken with other indigestion tablets.
None of which must have been taken while you still have any form of alcohol in the blood stream and you must not drink while you are still prescribed them.
Should you have side effects of any kind then a quick trip back to the doctors is very necessary. and Immediate stoppage of the tablets concerned.
Good fun huh.
All making life a little weird to say the least. Pain still mostly there but under control but now I am in a state of what can only be described as whacked out euphoria.
Interspersed with tearful momments of depression.
hubby and son are doing all they can to be helpful and I am trying to have the odd lucid momment when I am able to sit long enough to write the odd piece on dooyou.
I hope this rambling helps someone else too the excercises are mainly stretching ones and going to the puffin pool to sooth the muscles. But until the physio starts it could be a bit of a wait.
Work is a no hoper at the momment as I seem to sleep at the drop of a hat.
drugged up to the eyeballs I suppose.

Summary: never be a p! taker when back pain comes next time I will know what its like!