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Hi @Kieran
oh my goodness you really have been through the mill and it must be extremely difficult to feel like you now have no light at the end of the tunnel. I was wondering if you have been able to get any support from your GP? I was also wondering if you could get a referral to the pain clinic?
I as also thinking our section on the website about managing pain might help you.
We do have lots of members here who live with long term pain and I am sure they will be able to share their ideas and experience with you. Let us know how you get on and keep in touch
Best Wishes
Sharon
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Sorry to hear the op didn't help much. I've had 4 and everyone has their own story. Keep asking questions to the consultants and stay strong.0
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Thank you for your comments and I have been going to the pain clinic since last year but the specialist didn’t want to advise anything until I had my follow up surgery. Since I had the surgery which was (inserting ligaments and stretching my muscle back and clamping it to my bone )he doesn’t want to advise further until he speaks to the surgeon.Unfortunately I just seem to be prescribed morphine from GP .I rang the two weeks ago as the pain clinic advised changing morphine as you become ammune to it .... I ended up getting more morphine0
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You poor thng, I am so sorry. Surgery alone is sometimes not enough, so much depends on how fit the patient is before, how assiduous they are about doing the post-op exercises after, how fast the individual heals (just because the surface scar is healed does not mean the deep-seated stuff is done) - there are so many variables but sometimes it just doesn't work. I've had lots of operations which were mostly helpful but none of them were joint replacements, I was refused new knees in 2011 when I was 52 on the grounds of extreme youth, despite being bone-on-bone through both. Nine years on everything else is so much worse I will take great joy in refusing if someone offers, there is no point now because that boat sailed. 😂
I have both an auto-immune arthritis plus osteo, some joints have one, some the other and others both. Pain is a fact of life and has been since '97, in fact things became easier once it was widespread rather than confined to one or two joints. We get it because we've got it, no matter how little or how much pain is pain is pain. DD
Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0
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