Gosh - I am so fed up with all this. I am in eye-watering pain and on crutches awaiting disc surgery on my back and struggling with additional pain in my hip replacement on the same side. I can hardly function.
Problem with pain relief for lots of boring reasons, so on an opiod patch .....which does not seem to help at all and causes Rock of Gibralter style constipation which has resisted all attempts to relieve ..... so GP has prescribed Movicol, which works, but has triggered atrial fibrillation ... I have been awake half the night with it and it is still going. Looked it up on the net this morning and it is known to trigger AF.
It is all so darned tedious, and very hard to cope with on my own here.
I miss my live-in doctor - my OH was a GP!
I am also exasperated by my GP who I waited 3 weeks to speak to on the phone (not her fault) but, when I said there were more than one problem going on (AF, new tremor, balance problems, acute pain hip/leg/foot, constipation) said "Well let's just deal with one thing at a time shall we?" What I should have said is that it is all very well for her to say that but I simply do not have the option to deal with one thing at a time - I am living with all the problems day in, day out.
I would just like to get on with my life. I have had to cancel my holiday.
I have had a good grumble now - let us hope it will cure all the problems!