Spring/summer Pain Clinic

Sue decided to send me to PAIN CLINIC [for chronic pain relief].They put me on GABAPENTIN a {pain killer} and AMATRIPALINE a {antidepressant it some times helps the pain}, I did not get on with AMATRIPALENE bad tum head ache not with it all morning. I took my self off it.GABAPENTIN worked well.

The clinic decided to try a tens machine [electric pluses travel to nerves to help with pain] after many setting changes and a spell in Aand E on a running club weekend, I decided it was not helping me at all.This is where I was given OROMORPH a {liquid morphine} as back up when the pain got out of control, it worked very well, so long as you did not take too much you remained fairly sane.

The next treatment was called GAUANETIDINE BLOCKS this was very painful it involved a cannula in to your all ready sensitive foot and a tight cuff around your thigh which was left on for 30 min while they injected pain blocks.

You stayed in hospital all day and took me 2 weeks to recover then the next one started I managed 6 of the 8 the last one putting me in hospital for the night. My foot, my body, could not take any more.

Around about this time my physio was changed sue felt she could offer me no more, she did not think she was doing much to help me as my foot was rebelling against the treatment, WIETSE was in charge he was going to try acupuncture and other things which I would find out about later on WIETSE gave nothing away.

He all knew about RSD.I got on well with him as he under stood what I was going through. Acupuncture went very well any from 4 needles to 15 at a time.On one of my WIETSE visits I was in so much pain I asked him to cut my foot off after a few min silences he explained he would do no good as it would spread the RSD and I would have phantom pains.

NEW YEAR NEW LUCK

3 days in to the New Year my Dad had a bad fall and went in hospital with a possible broken hip, after x-rays his hip was found not to be broken but badly bruised. He was in hospital for over 2 weeks. On the day he came home he had a stroke and died on the 21th Jan less than 8 weeks after mum he just gave up, and died mostly of a broken heart.

November 22nd

Could it get any worse? My mum died suddenly on 22th nov it affected me very badly the RSD went off the pain scale.



My Dad was devastated he is not a well man and  has been ill a long time [heart disease and  blood pressure problems] all so he has alsimers. Christmas came and went I found it very hard to cope.