I have an ongoing upper back issue (four years or so). Fobbed off by GPs, has a few courses of physio and I do my exercises. Mostly it’s manageable but always flares up in school holidays (twins, both disabled, both need lots of lifting, nappy changes etc). So about 3 times a year I end up with a box of diazepam. They give me 2mg x 21 tablets. I have to take 4x 2mg for it to have even the slightest effect so lasts less than two days. Usually that’s enough to make a difference so I can get mobile again but this time nothing. I am on morphine for another condition and this may be why I’m so tolerant to it, not sure if it’s similar receptors or something?
Anyway, I’m in a bad way. Struggling to move and sleep. Not sure whether I should call the GP again on Monday - I worry about them thinking I’m drug seeking (I’m really not - they don’t make me high or drowsy at all, not even a little bit).
I do finally have a rheumatologist appointment on Friday specifically about my back so maybe I just need to grin and bear it until then - maybe there’s something else they could try me on or ask my GP to prescribe? It’s only ever very short term, just so I can straighten out and not be a mangled ball of pain.
GPs have previously dismissed the idea that there’s anything actually wrong with my back and that it’s just muscular but will see what the consultant reckons.