Can anyone with inside information explain why I don’t qualify for a scan/X-ray/mri on my back.
Have been living with sciatica for over a year. Gradually getting worse. The last 5 weeks it has escalated. 5 weeks ago I was prescribed Amitryptaline and naproxen and cocodamol 15/500. Pain got worse, upped amitryptaline dose, upped cocodamol to 30/500. They don’t even touch the pain.
After a night and day of agonising pain where I can’t sit and it was painful to even take a few steps, I phoned 111 (yesterday) and they gave me diazepam. So I’m on…amitryptaline, naproxen, cocodamol and diazepam. Last night the pain was horrific, there wasn’t a position that didn’t cause me to be in pain.
I have muscle spasms every time I move, my lumber region is swollen, pain is radiating into my buttocks and thugs. I have no reflex in my Achilles and my legs feel weak. Tingling all down my right leg, sometimes both.
Every doctor I talk to asks about my bowels, have I lost control of them. I’m on so many painkillers I’ve been constantly constipated so even if I did lose control I doubt very much I’d notice. I have been leaking urine though.
So, are they just going to keep upping my painkillers until I’m a zombie? Im afraid that if I go to a&e I’ll just end up sitting (leaning/resting/laying) on those hard seats just to be sent home with a prescription for yet more painkillers.
Seeing as I’ve had back pain for over a year, wouldn’t it be good to find out what’s causing it?