Over 20 quids worth of Ouch :( (by sarah)
Not kittens this time but me. I have just had to shell out over £20 for a prescription, my back is still killing me from well over a week ago now right where it curves in the most. It is probably soft tissue damage with the possibility of trapped nerve which needs to be looked at becuase of siatica (I have no idea how to spell this word). My Core muscles are probably unstable leading to problems around my lower back - I think these are the same muscles I was working at streangthening becuase of the seperated pelvis but am not sure.
So its back to physio for me and back on the pain killers, this time its a cocktail of three:
Solpadol, Diclofenac, and Omeprazole
One of these is to protect my stomache from the pain killers as I have a nasty tendency to bleed from both ends if on pain killers for any length of time and start losing weight as food just wont stay down. The dr said this means I have uclers and stuff and asked if I'd had endoscopies about it. I said I had and lo! My notes say I have IBS this is something at least, no one has ever said anything to me before other than the biopsys came back inconclusive. I had given up on getting a diagnosis for the stomache stuff if I am honest. So I am assuming now that I have ulcers and IBS and am wondering how else to deal with them - I already tend to stay clear of rich foods, I'm on the goats milk and cheese and said by by to red meat a long time ago.
I have to wait 4 weeks or so for the physio at which point the doc says the back will probably be better but that I need physio to try and stop recurring injuries and stuff. The down side is that some of these tablets make you sleepy so I'm quiet sure how thats going to work with a Jeany-bow to look after.
I was quiet taken aback at the cost of my prescription though - ouch, ouch ouch. Oh well if it wasnt subsadised they'd probably cost more but still how many people who dont qualify for free prescriptions can afford hits of 20 every few weeks?? This is only ok for us finacially at the moment becuase things are on an upswing at the moment if this had been pre-flood I wouldnt have had the cash to get it with - sigh.
Mon 3rd Dec 2007 3:15 pm 
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