when I was 17 I fell off my friends horse which caused me to have back pain and sciatic pain. After 6 months of going backward and forward to the GP saying time and time again that maximum dosage of gabapentin and naproxen wasn’t working for my pain i eventually got a MRI scan which showed I’d slipped a disc which was also causing leg pain a few months later I had a discectomy which cured the problem and I was back to full health within 6 weeks.
in 2022 at age 24 i suddenly woke up in the horrendous cramp like pains all over my body this eased slightly and then I just had horrendous leg pain constantly, went to my GP was given various pain relief which didn’t help at all so I had an MRI which showed I’d slipped the same disk again i tried a steroid injection which didn’t work and had physiotherapy, I was then out on waiting list for another discectomy I waited 2.5 years for the surgery which I finally had in November 2024. My leg pain hasn’t improved at all I’m still on pain relief gabapentin and naproxen. I had another steroid injection in May which hasn’t help the pain The consultant thinks I’ve now got permanent nerve damage in my leg due to waiting so long for the operation there’s not anything else they can do to help me. Apart from send me to a pain management clinic which I’m on the waiting list for.
I now can’t work or enjoy my life like I used to, I used to be a dog walker and trainer. Which gets me down a lot of time as I should have my whole life ahead of me. My relationship with my partner and family is starting to suffer as it all takes a toll on everyone else.
does anybody have any ideas on what else I could do to help with the pain?
has anyone on here had similar experience to me in their mid 20s?
how do people cope as being in pain feels so lonely.