Hello to all the members,

i'm karen and i'm 31 years old from england. I started with back pain about 8 years ago. The pain would be in the spine area between my shoulder blades and spread across to the left and right of my shoulder blades. Over the years the pain has become increasingly worse and more painful.


The best way I can deiscribe the pain between my shoulder blades which has now spread to my neck and lower down the spine is a sudden sharp pain but is more or less constant. When the pain gets worse it becomes like a burning type of pain with a numb feeling but the pain is still present.



I also had a little girl 20 months ago and suffered back pain in the lower back during pregnancy and during labour due to her back being against mine. I still suffer this pain and becomes very painful when i'm having to bend over, for example, when I change the bedding, when I shange the little girls nappy and so on. Its feels like a pulling pain which becomes really painful :cry:

I have been complaining of this pain to my family doctor now for some time and my previous doctor who left the surgery in may 2004 did carry out an x-ray which was clear, i've also had physio, different types of drugs (painkillers and ani-inflam's) and nothing seems to be showing up anything or helping. I have even been to pain clinic who decided to send me for accumpuncture which this made the pain worse.



I can go to bed and be in pain and when getting up out of bed is also painful. When the painis really bad I cant lie on my back in bed due to the pain in my lower back and upper back.



The doctor I know have who took over from my previous doctor in august 2004 doesnt seem to be helping and just seems to find it easy to give me antidepressants instead as he thinks that the depression in bringing on the pains when the pains was here first and depression afterwards due to all the stress with not knowing what the problem is and whats going on, especially when my doctor just finds it easy to give me drugs instead of getting to the bottom of things.



I went to see a different doctor in my surgey last friday and his given me some stronger painkillers and also a couple of numbers to telephone to get some councilling as I have also lost my mum who I was very close to some 10 weeks ago. This and other problems dont help with my medical problems which are also on going and becoming worse.



I have also been suffering with abdominal problems and still undiagnosed with this problem but been told in the past that it could be endometriosis. So i'm not doing to well on teh medical side of things! Especially with my doctor. So I not intend to see the doctor I saw last friday from now on instead of the doctor I am registard with.



Any help, advice and support would be greatful.



Karen

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