He has had a bad back on and off for months now, by on and off I mean he gets respite from it for a few days before it flares up again.
Sometimes he has to lay on the floor, he finds it difficult to sit at his desk, driving is uncomfortable, stretching gives him momentary relief.
He will not go to the doctor.
His reasoning is that when he went before (five years ago!), he was told to come back when it had been painful for six weeks. Four weeks later (which was Boxing Day iirc), I dragged him to the walk in because he couldn’t move at all. That was sciatica and he was immobile for two weeks and on a cocktail of painkillers.
This back pain has been going on for months but because it hasn’t been CONSTANT for six weeks he won’t go and see the GP. Because that’s what the last GP told him. Even though that was his first ever back complaint and he was subsequently bedbound for a fortnight.
This is the man who had to be strong armed into seeing the doctor with his ‘tummy ache’ which was a burst appendix and he nearly died.
I’ve just been quite shirty with him and told him to make an appt after he’s hobbled in and out of the shower. He said hmm I might do if it still hurts on Friday. The whole ‘but it hasn’t been constant for six weeks and that’s what they said’ is making me want to batter him over the head. He’s in pain and won’t get help for it.
How can I convince him?