more on the Nerve Blocks by the pain specialist

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have done a lot of soul searching on this one eg re my pain. I had

to do these tests in the mornings when my pain is nowhere near as

bad as trhe night eg after 5 pm.

In order to have a lot of pain, I foolishly went without meds for 24

hours and th eweek before last wehen they did these tests with drugs

on me I was in a 7, what happened is I went home, and that night I

was by myself as my partner was working, I couldnt bring my pain

down, it had got to a point I couldnt cope anymore and it was

increasing still. I took fats release morphine at 10 times my daily

dose, and still it was climbing. I live an hour away from a hospital

and I was too scared to go myself, In th ened at 9 pm I called my

partner he was almost home as I was goign to call an ambulance.

To reduce these pain meds took an awful lot of courage on my behalf

to submit myslef willignly to pain that I may not be able to

control.

I told him last week and teh week before that because I didn this I

ended up chasing the pain both weekends and I was off work all last

week.

with my last pain specialist, he cared a lot and I felt like I had

no choice eg this was the only option that he gave me to help with

my pain.

So I said well I have no option, so i agreed going in totally blind

and comign out each time in worse pain.

I lay on that table crying and after and they chose to do nothing

and there were a nurse a radiopgrapher the pain guy and his student.

He knew I was in pain. afterwards all I could say to him was what

was the point of that test?????

I thought he would do a block that may stop my pain even for a

day.......not what he did