Got a back specialist appointment at B&.

barbara12

Hi All
Has you may know , my consultant is trying to find out if my hip pain is coming from my back...I have started with a sought of sciatic pain...and my meds are not touching it...my gp has doubled my gabapentin but no relief yet.
I dont do upset at my GPs but yesterday it all came out.
To cut a long story short, I got a call this morning from my GP, to pick up a choose and book form for an emergency back appointment.....GUESS were......the carpark at B&. yes the diy place....well at least it made me and OH laugh...wonder if I will be seen amongst the shrubs
Barbara xx

dachshund

Hi Barbara.
perhaps you will be given the tools to do it yourself.
i wonder if you will have some plants.
good luck. joan xx

dreamdaisy

Gordon Bennett Barbara, the mind boggles. There has to be some really good puns lurking but damned if I can find them. The most important thing however is that you are going to be seen and soon - hopefully by a back specialist and not a Q&B cashier doing a bit of moonlighting. DD

julie47

Barbara I am sorry but your post did make me smile as did the comments the others have given.

hey don't be put off if it is one of the cashiers at our docs the receptionist did bloods :shock:
I was shocked when I walked in the room to see her in a blue uniform
....she is trained up.....phew

To be more serious now.....I hope the appointment helps.

Take care
Juliepf x

barbara12

Hi Lynn, Joan ,DD and Julie
Well you are all up and coming comedians honestly it a mobile unit in the carpark...no trouble parking eh....its at CATS-CAREUK...anyone heard of it..I think they are a private thing..that takes NHS patiences
Thankyou all for your support
Oh and its on a Sunday 20th March
Barbara xxx

chris7

Hi Barbara

Sorry lovey, but it could only happen you eh! Glad you felt able to let it all out at the docs and I do hope you get some decent pain relief soonish. Can't think of any more DIY jokes but am sure more will follow with this witty lot. At least you don't have too long to wait and I hope it gives you some answers. When do you get the result from the camera thingy? I have emailed but not sure it went since it said sommat about me message had triggered junk filters! :roll: :???: I hate these computery things when I don't have a teenager here. Hang in there love.
love and hugs ((( )))
Chris xxx

barbara12

Hi Lynn and Chris
Lynn thanks for the link...Chris I did get your email, thankyou...I see my consultant on the 7th April....my GP told me I should wait to see what he says, but to be honest I cant get on top of the pain...this is only recent its like sciatica...but nothing is touching it.
So I got this call, and I go the this unit on the 20th March....fingers crossed they can help.
Love and thankyou
Barbara xx

skezier

Hi Barbara,

Well there you go the ultimate in diy treat your self

Be good in the shrubs as long as nobody comes and buys the one protecting you from general view......

seriously though at least it means you will be seen quicker cus they bring in the mobile ones to get more people seen.

Will be interested in what he does to you.

Sciatica hurts flower but a lot of people find relief from via the gabapentin or pregabalins. I certainly find it helps no wend with the back for me.

leaving you a ((((( ))))) and will be up for pocket duties both days. Cris xx

julie47

Hi barbara
Hope you slept ok......not too many dreams on diy I hpe.
How are you today? Fingers crossed you are not in too much discomfort.
Thinking of you
Juliepf x

dreamdaisy

Morning barbara12, I second everything Julie said. I am thinking of you. DD

stickywicket

Barbara - I won't do any DIY jokes either as my husband's always offering to fix my various joints for me. I suppose it's the equivalent of the mobile breast screening unit. At least it should get you a bit further to sorting things out. Hope it goes well.

dreamdaisy

We had one of those screening units in our local Sainsbriz, but it had lost an 'r'. I wandered in, as is my wont, and asked whether my beast was suitable. They didn't laugh. Dunno why. DD

stickywicket

DD- you have no idea how carefully I worded that last contribution, avoiding words like 'screw' 'drill' etc

barbara12

Thankyou Cris, Julie SW, and DD
Its lovely of you to think of me when you are going through your own pain
I will get there, I have quite an hight pain threshold, but this is something else, cant sit sleep or stand without this cronic pain
It does feel like a disc may have gone in my back, so I am just being careful not to make it any worse...if that possible
Love to you all
Barbara xxxx Wouldnt mind saying I am going to homeba..but not B&.

tjt6768

Hi Barbara, sorry I have only just caught this one..
Right, so, erm, DIY store car park eh? My God woman, where do you live, Serbia??? Lol

I hope that the sciatica eases soon, it is a dreadful thing, I get it a fair bit due to osteophytes forming on my lower spine, they're little 'spurs' of deformed bone... They can press on the sciatic nerve, that's when the real fun begins :roll: :roll:

I used to do extension excersises that did help bit, like a press up but you keep everything from waist down to the floor/bed whatever... Now with my hands and wrists being a tad rubbish it ain't possible.. I am not advising you do this, just in case.. Just saying that is about the only thing that used to help, like you the painkillers don't go anywhere near it..


Best of luck with your car park adventures hun

mp1952

Oh Barbara

Sorry to hear your pain is not under control... it's been one thing after another for you over the last few months. Thank goodness there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel as far as sorting things out for you goes...

I will be thinking of you and hoping you get some relief soon.

Marion x

dachshund

Hi Barbara.
i hope you get some help when you go on the 20 march.
you've had a lot of pain.
i had a mri you are having a diy you never know it might be the new way to fix back pain.
take care. joan xx

dreamdaisy

Oh sticky, I think I do! You me both!

Hello Barbara12, how goes things now? Are you feeling even a little bit better after the camera etc? DD