trapped nerve in my back

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