Please take action by giving your feedback to NICE before 5pm 14th September 2020. NICE (who give guidance to the NHS which doctors follow) are reviewing the guidelines for chronic pain and making it worse yet again for us. They are now advising against the use of all painkillers and most medications in draft guidelines!They … Read more
Update about my latest doctors appointment and a telephone call with the physio he referred me to in the hopes of getting an MRI. Firstly a background on the only MRI I have ever had which was a lumbar and sacral (lowest part of the spine that goes into the tailbone) 6 years ago. I … Read more
When I spoke to the doctor recently on my 3 weekly review, I also mentioned my chronic fatigue (CFS/ME) again. This is one that even after decades of having this, doctors just brush it off like I am just a bit tired when I am actually unbearably struggling to keep awake and so exhausted all … Read more
I recently spoke to my doctor for my 3 weekly review. I told him that the withdrawal is starting up again even at changing the patches every 48 hours (I was getting withdrawal previously around 50-52 hours). I sometimes feel it starting before I change my patch or most usually it starts about 30 mins … Read more
This is something that many chronic pain sufferers including myself will tell you and many countries (or in the case of the USA, many States) also know this and let chronic pain sufferers get access to medical cannabis. By saying cannabis I am talking about actual cannabis which contains THC and CBD. CBD alone is … Read more
I seem to have never ending issues!A few weeks ago I got a UTI that I told my doctor about after suffering for 5 days. He told me to wait longer which I did, but it got really bad where I couldn’t sleep well and I was peeing blood so have to call an out … Read more