And DH must see a doctor immediately?
Now, I have severe anxiety disorder so I well appreciate I may be being ridiculous here.
But here goes.
Apologies for the length...
13 years ago DH was lifting heavy stuff at work (ex construction), shortly after he developed a bit of back pain.
Over the course of 13 years he has seen many physiotherapists and chiropractors with no good outcome.
He has been prescribed a number of painkillers like naproxen which don't work and co codamol which can take the edge off a little.
The pain starts in the morning with stiffness, gradually gets a bit better with moving around then worse again in the evening.
Much worse in cold weather when his knees and fingers will also go stiff.
He is very fatigued and doesn't sleep well at night and recently has started 'sticking' as in he will bend down then cannot get back up, he is 'frozen/locked' into position.
Now DH is resistant to go to the doctors because he thinks it is arthritis, and because they refuse to give him an MRI, just fob him off with physio/chiro and cocodamol but I was talking to a friend who told me about two of her relatives who had long term back pain and turned out to have spinal tumours and died and my lovely dad, shortly before he died it was discovered he had a massive inoperable back abscess that they thought he would have had for a long time. He was in pain with his back for many months.
So obviously I am driving myself crazy thinking it's something really serious?