Chronic back pain. Unable to get comfortable

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A bit of back (pardon the pun) history. I have lived with chronic pain for nearly 20 years and developed chronic back pain over the years of being a carer for DS1. There have been MRIs done in the past as I had spinal facet joint injections to relieve the pain. They worked for a short time but not for the past few years.
I have been taking a huge lot of medication for pain and auto-immune condition for a long time but some days, even with the slow-release morphine and oramorph for breakthrough pain have not been helping. Tonight is absolute agony. I had to lay in a fairly hot bath to ease the pain in my lower back and it's radiating down my legs. Since coming out of the bath I have tried to sit downstairs with my family to be sociable but no matter what position I sit in the pain is excruciating. The only position to be in which is tolerable is to lay flat on my back. That is no good when you have a disabled adult DS to look after.
Heat is the only non-medicated thing that helps at the moment, as the tens machine I bought is agony due to the neuropathic pain that I have.

Any suggestions of what I could do to ease this?

Don’t want to read and run, it’s late so you may not get many response, just a reminder to bump in the morning so more people see it.

You sound like you’re really suffering tonight. I don’t know what your specific injury is or what you’ve tried but if heat helps have you tried sleeping on an electric blanket on a low heat? It may ease your pain while you rest over night so you wake up feeling a bit better?

Do you have any respite care so you can take a break for yourself? You need time to heal if you’re flaring up badly but also time to just recoup even when your back isn’t flaring to help you prevent bad episodes,especially if your DC has physical care needs that involve you lifting.

Hope it starts to ease soon unmumsnetty hugs