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<\/p>\nIn the two weeks running up to my appointment for the lumbar spinal nerve block injection my pain just got worse and worse. I ended up off work and on a cocktail of pain killers, starting with Tramadol and Naproxen and, eventually, moving on to Temgesic, Diazepam and Amitriptyline after a couple of days when I had had no sleep at all due to the extreme pain in my right leg.<\/p>\n
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The pain was simply horrendous, constant and nagging, I\u00a0wouldn’t\u00a0wish it on anyone. The final cocktail left me feeling spleepy and spaced but at least able to sleep. I spent the week on the sofa watching day time telly. The drugs made the television tolerable as well as the pain. I found myself getting really into a Channel Quest “How do they do it?” programme about how they make the fake logs for electric fires and told Cath all about it (several times!)\u00a0when she got home from work!<\/p>\n
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Cath drove me to hospital for my injections\u00a0last Saturday, and I was first up on the morning list.<\/p>\n
Strangely, I found myself in the same room as 8 years ago when I had my sesamoid injected.<\/p>\n
It all started so quickly and just lying on my front to start with put me in a lot of pain despite the painkillers, though, unfortunately,\u00a0I didn’t think to ask for gas and air.<\/p>\n
As the needle progressed between x-rays to get it in the right place I ended up with my mouth clamped round the pillow, a nurse lying over my shoulders holding me down and crying out in agony (me, not her!). I hope the door to the ward wasn’t open; if those to follow had heard me it would have got them very worried about what was in store for them next.<\/p>\n
I was in a right state. I\u00a0vaguely remember being shown the x-ray to confirm they had got\u00a0the needle\u00a0into exactly the right place, and then getting pushed out in a wheel chair. Coffee and biscuits followed, before\u00a0being allowed\u00a0to go home after an hour or so.<\/p>\n
I stayed on the pain killers that night but even by the following morning the pain had gone, just disappeared like that and since Tuesday I’ve not taken so much as a paracetamol.<\/p>\n
So what happens next? I still have a numb right shin, you could run your nail hard up it and I\u00a0wouldn’t feel a thing. If I stand or walk for more than 5 minutes or so the shin starts to hurt but recovers fairly quickly once I sit down again.<\/p>\n
My next consultant appointment is in 5 weeks….. watch this space…….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the two weeks running up to my appointment for the lumbar spinal nerve block injection my pain just got worse and worse. I ended up off work and on a cocktail of pain killers, starting with Tramadol and Naproxen and, eventually, moving on to Temgesic, Diazepam and Amitriptyline after a couple of days when … <\/p>\n