Some wellies a better than others. My friend gave me a pair of Joules ones, they are awful. I have an old pair of Barbour ones...they are excellent!

Never, ever google your diagnosis.

I just googled untreated scoliosis in adults, and it's scaring the cr*p out of me.

Today I got sent home from work early because I could hardly walk, I was in so much pain from my back, my muscles in my hip were spasming and my knee was locking. I was almost crying when my co-worker told me to 'please' get the heck home. That was a long walk home. 

From what I read pains like these aren't common with Scoliosis in adults, I had thought it was the reason and figured it was why my GP didn't go further than sending me to have my back cracked. Which hurts like a btch btw. 

From what I can read my symtoms show that I might have a trapped spinal nerve, like I have thought before it could be the result of a slipped disk.

I am going to put on fake tears if I have to at my next appointment to see my doctor. I had scheduled it so I could prescribed a bigger jar of one of the pain killers I take (that still barely make a difference), but I think I'm going to beg on my knees to have my back scanned. 

I am so over this. 

Really sorry to learn that you endure such pain, phantom. If you actually have a slipped disc try to settle yourself straight and flat on the back, then lift the legs so your hips are ninety degree bent, then bent the knees again to ninety degrees, like steps. Stuff cushions or something like that under the thighs and rest the calves on them to be a bit comfortable. Get well soon!

Thanks, I will see what I can do

About the second opinion, I would love that, but I don't really know how to go about that. here you have a GP assigned to you, I actually have two but the other one is very nervous and jittery. I wouldn't trust her judgement on anything. 

I think the main issue is that I don't react correctly to pain, I don't cry out, complain or whince... I just smile and giggle even if I'm abou to pass out from pain. It's hard to get taken seriously like that

You need an MRI to confirm if it is a slipped disc. Very, very painful!

Here I go again... but if I don't get this off of my chest I just don't know...


I am crying right now, I just spent half an hour waiting in line to call my doctors office to renew one of my prescriptions on pain medicine for my back... The mild ones even, that I take to help the stronger ones along. The secretary told me she couldn't do that and adviced me to call the doctors in the morning and have a personal chat about what to do next. 

Next? It's a miracle I was prescribed any medicine in the first place because my doctor doesn't believe I'm in as much pain as I am. I just choked up and I think I might be having a panic attack here...

I mean, the pills are the only thing that makes me able to work, to do anything at all. 

I'm actually home from work today because I can't walk and my body is all in knots from the pain. 


FML!  

I called the doctor in the morning and he just laughed when I told him I was asked to call, he renewed my prescription and even gave me a bigger bottle of one of them... so I'm set for a while now! 


This is such a stupid thing to be down over... and it's actually surprising me.

It was father's day some weeks ago here in Denmark, something that usually passes quickly and something I only noticed with a few advertisements on the telly from some of the usual male products saying "Don't forget your dad"

Facebook is crowded with 'OMG I love my daddy' and it's fine, I would be a horrible person if I didn't want others to be happy. It just reminds me of what a 'freak' I am.

I don't even know my father's name. We have only met once and according to my mother he refused to look at me. I was 1 day old. He was married to another woman and decided to do the 'honerable' thing and save his marriage and keep his mistake a secret.

When I grew up and was asked about my parents by other kids or grown ups and said I didn't have a father the responses weren't the kindest. All from disbelief and "No, everyone has a father" to very mean things and assumptions about my mother... I always felt a bit isolated (being obese as well didn't help either)... 

I remember being 13 and being in a restaurant with my mother and one of her friends who happened to be male, and the waiter assumed he was my father made me happy. Simply because it felt so normal... 

I was so angry at my father, my mother wouldn't tell me anything. Not even how she met him and I had all sorts of stories in my head... a few years ago she told me the truth and I found a bit of peace. I still don't think what he did was right. 

I hope if he does have children with his wife that they have good reason to celebrate father's day with him. I'd like to think he's a good man who made some bad choices.

And I hope one day I get to raise children with a man and see them have what I always wished I had

 

No I haven't... my doctor wants to start me on physiotherapy first... which I have to go through a long process with the jobcenter about because there is no way I can afford it on my own... so no chance for a while... 

 

That is a truly awful loss. I wish you all strength, love amongst your family to give each other the support you need now.
Big hugs and be strong, dear.

How awful and such a terrible shock. My thoughts with you and all involved Titania.

Phantom...I cannot understand how, in blazes, your doctor thinks that given your symptoms and their duration, that you should have physio and no MRI. You should have, as a minimum, x-rays and an MRI with a specialist involved to interpret them!!!