This is your last chance to give your feedback using the comments form on the NICE website regarding the upcoming chronic pain guidelines that doctors will use for prescribing medication and treatment for chronic pain. You have until 5pm Monday 14th September 2020 to fill it in so do it now. These guidelines remove ALL … Read more
If you have read the draft NICE Chronic Pain guidelines or my article about them and are affected or against this upcoming policy regarding removal of painkillers for chronic pain, you need to take action now and send your comments to NICE before the policy goes live!Anyone can leave comments and you only have until … 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
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
I initially wondered why I wasn’t diagnosed with Fibromyalgia seeing as I have chronic pain plus chronic fatigue, but there are some differences as to why it isn’t Fibromyalgia. I have suffered from severe pain for decades and only got a diagnosis in the last few years which was diagnosed as just “chronic pain” as … Read more
Had my telephone appointment with my doctor this morning to see how I was getting on with the patches at 60 hours. I thought I would update here at the same time Basically the chills and sweats the night before I placed my patch at 72 hours has pretty much gone, although when I change … Read more