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[brynteg11]

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Hello!

[captainbovine]

Pregabalin 300mg and Zapain three times a day, but I don't take that many Zapain as they are addictive. I think I need to double up the dose of the Pregabalin again, I was on 600mg and I coped quite well with that.

I've had the tens machine on and it's made a big difference. I'll do it again tonight before I go to sleep.

How are you doing with yours Stan? do you find that you get one hell of a pain when you stand up after sitting for a while?

[ed_blackadder_1]

When my back goes into spasm (which it hasn't for 5 years) I get sciatica and gosh my language is awful everytime I put my foot down. Horrible thing to get you have my sympathy.

[stan3502]

Have they not offered you Diazepam .................I know it sounds odd for sciatica but really does work wonders as acts like muscle relaxant while you sleep.

Mine been good as of late CB but when it flares it always does so big style last time sat, eat and slept in a deck chair for 4 days as the only thing I could get up and down out of and could'nt even lift my leg to get up the stairs never mind raise it to lift it into bed.

Pain literally left me screaming out in pain ...................would rather give birth 30 times over with no pain relief rather than go through that again

[rainydaywoman11]

Good evening ladies.

I endorse fully what Stan has just said about sciatica pain, in my younger days I was hospitalised with it and thought it the most Hellish pain on earth.  It's true, the pain makes you scream.

I have not had it for years (touches wood) - and still do the stretching exercises I was taught (Pilates basically).  I was always given Diazepam as well Capt. B.  Maybe you should ask your GP?

I would double your Pregabalin - what is the other drug, is it a painkiller?  I've never heard of it.

I hope it goes soon because it makes life unbearable.  You shouldn't be at work!

[ed_blackadder_1]

I have had diazepam for my spasms as well as anti depressant it is a muscle relaxant. I must admit I have only ever had a few because I was afraid of the addiction thing however they work really well.

[rainydaywoman11]

 Stan - are you watching the footie?  Man C v Roma.  OH is.

I remember a wonderful game, played at Old Trafford v Roma, when a young Portugese boy played like an angel.  7 - 1 it was in the end (I think).  I still have the recording saved.  What a magic night.

[captainbovine]

Zapain is co-codamol 30mg codiene and 500mg paracetamol. They do work a bit but nothing gets rid of the pain completely.

I can't go off sick or I'll get a written warning as I was off with my hoof. I'll try to walk some of it off, what else can I do.

gawd, someone shoot me

[ed_blackadder_1]

Dont you just love the old absence policy. I was off with tonsillitis once and at my review they suggested to stop it happening again (this was the 1st time I had had it) they suggested I have a flu injection gawd I ask you.

[rainydaywoman11]

That's shocking   I used to work in HR and ok I'm out of date, but how can they legally do that?  Is it in your contract?

[ed_blackadder_1]

Rainy we are allowed to be off for a certain percentage of our hours before we have a review and if we go over that we have to have another one we then get written warnings. A lot of people go into work so they wont get in trouble. You see people eveyday with limps and sickness bad colds infections and like CB they struggle on.
A very caring company we work for.

[ed_blackadder_1]

It is supposed to stop people taking the mick but it just puts pressure on good people who through no fault of their own get poorly.

[rainydaywoman11]

Yes Ed, it is counter productive - I mean how can you compare sciatica to, say, phoning in with a cold?  Plus the skivers, in my working experience, always take full advantage of the percentage they are allowed.  What a shame 

[learning2me]

Morning all.

A bit grey here today so I think I'll hang my washing inside. Still warm though.

Last night I finished the last of 32 knitted hats for Biker's Oldies Club, so now I'm concentrating on shawlettes and cowls with the wool I have left.

[merc1_clocks]

 Today I am mostly  for my FHG friends

[ilove2patch]

 Lovely warm sunny day here. Off to have my hair cut later.:)

[ed_blackadder_1]

Dull and drizzly here.

[rose2008-2008]

The sun is popping out between clouds go over for a while. Quite angry clouds too. We are in for rain at the end of the week it says. I might have a nap,,i walked around town for anhour and im shattered!!. Just treated myself to a book online,, a Josephine Cox New One ohhhhh exciting!!!.

Hope you feel well soon CB,,,, i wont start about what i think of sickness rules. We are not allowed to have but so many days until a warning even us cleaners. Ridiculous,,if your ill your ill!!!. The Prime Minister should stick his oar in about that one too! 😞

See ya all later 🙂

[bitsnknots]

Afternoon all.  I agree with you Rose, these sickness rules are immoral.  

The weather was nice up until about an hour ago and now it's dull and drizzly.  It's forecast for wet and windy for us at the end of the week.  I hope that they're wrong.

[stroppy*cow]

I fully agree about the ridiculous sickness rules! Where I work management will do anything they can to weasel out of paying sick pay, and it usually takes intervention from the union to get anywhere.

Another frustrating day. Consultant is happy with the blood glucose results, but won't even consider a date for the operation as "the hole" is such a mess and the infection count is sky high again. Another vile mix of anti-biotics and come back in a fortnight. Had to wait an hour for my meds as you HAVE to collect anything prescribed by the hospital from the chemist in the hospital. It is a tiny poky place, I can't even get to the counter in my wheelchair and there is always a huge queue of folks waiting to collect prescriptions and no space for them to wait.

Tried to make an appointment at the GP to review the diabetes - was asking for an appointment for next week. Nothing available - phone at 8am tomorrow and you might be lucky and get one for next Thursday, but if you are unlucky and all the appointments are booked when you manage to get through, you will have to phone again at 8am on Friday and hope for an appointment next Friday.

Have been trying to pay money into the bank. Hour on the phone to the receiving bank, the account is fine, and there is no reason for payments to be refused. Another call to the sending bank, they insist that the problem is the receiving bank, they try again and the receiving bank return the payment again. Another hour on the phone to the receiving bank who insist that there is no reason for them to return the payment, am finally put through to the bank card fraud section who tell me that there is a block on the account, something to do with terms and conditions. I now have to trek into the branch AGAIN to try to sort it out. Branch assured me last week that the account was fine.

[bitsnknots]

Banks are alright when they work properly aren't they?  Hope that you get sorted at the doctors as well Stroppy and that the antibiotics soon work.

I ordered one lot of medication from my GP last Wednesday and the prescription was sent electronically to Boots.  Boots normally text me when the prescription is ready.  As I hadn't received a text, I went in today and asked what the problem was.  They said that they hadn't got my mobile number.  How come they've sent me texts in the past?  They did say that they'd got my landline number though.  I asked why they hadn't rung me on the landline number to let me know that they'd got the medication.  This was one of the pharmacists that I was talking to and she looked at me like I was mad.  Whatever happened to common sense?