I am a care assistant who works in a care
home and I have been having some problems
with my back..
I first started limping with my right leg
and I went to gp and he said it was my
ligaments. He gave me a course of
antiflamotory tablets and told me to take
a couple of weeks of work..
I returned back to work after having 2
weeks off, but after 5 days back at work
it started again, I got so fed up with it
I went to the accident and emergency
department and they diagnosed me stating
that I had trapped nerve in my back.
I went back to my gp and he referred my to
a nhs physiotherapist and told me to
continue with my antiflamtory tablets.
Unfortunately after a month I started with
back pain and I was in agony so I went
back to the doctors and he gave me some
pain killer ( tramdol)to help with the
pain.
I got fed up waiting for the
physiotherpist I decided to go private and
after a month worth of treatment it
started to get better and then I received
a letter from the nhs physiotherapist and
finished with private one because it was
costing me a fortune...
My back was a lot better and my
physiotherpasit said I could return to
work..But unfortunately it happened
again..
But it is different this time the exercise
did not work it aggravated it and I have
also had accupunture..
But every time I have accupunture it
causes pain afterwards and it last for the
rest of the day..
I get twinges in my back and also have
ankle pain I have experienced stiffness in
my back and also sharp pain in my back
like electrical shocks...
I am hoping to go to my gp this week to
tell him I have had enough and that I want
to see a specialist..
I know that there are people worse than me
but I have had this problem on and off
since october 2005 to the present ...
Can any one tell me what they think it
might be
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Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 34 Location: lafayette, colorado
Posted: 06-05-06 09:05am
I wanted to tell you that I played around
with my back and my doctors for years,
receiving injections, going to the
chiopractor, living on pain medication and
muscle relaxers. Not one of my doctors
sent me to have an mri. I am 52 years
old and started having back problems when
my first child was born. Finally one
doctor set me up for an mri and low and
behold I had a stenosis in my neck and
lumbar region in my back, paralaysis had
started in my leg, with tingling and
burning sensations. I have had two
surgery's my leg is still numb. Don't
wait insist that your doctor does an mri
from your neck to your feet. Don't play
around like I did.
