I've had the week from hell my hubby has been in a hell of a lot of pain and it has been really hard for us as a family to witness and personally I have never felt so completely helpless but as a family, we are doing all we can to help which hubby finds extremely frustrating as he is usually the one carrying the shopping from the car, making sure the house is all secure last thing at night, taking the bins out etc
Long story short hubby has been nursing a sore back for a few weeks now and last Sunday his back went completely at his work in where it affected his left leg to go completely numb among other symptoms, so on Monday he got an emergency appointment in where the doctor gave him some pain relief which did not touch the pain at all, so another appointment with the doctor on Wednesday where he saw another doctor who did a few tests and was sent away with this time some really strong stuff in where he was given Gabapentin 300mg (one 3 x daily), Tramadol 50mg (two 4 x daily), Ibuprofen 400mg (one 3 x daily) unfortunately while these have been somewhat effective they are not killing his pain so I'm going to try and another appointment tomorrow for him, the doctor suspects he has Sciatica.
On Wednesday his boss phoned him and after discussing this matter with his boss, the big boss man then called my hubby's and he arranged for him to see the works Physiotherapist on Thursday and during this consultation the physiotherapist suspects hubby may have Sciatica or a herniated disc but he did say his money was on the latter
I'm just hoping that the Physio that his work has arranged will make my hubby more comfortable as atm he looks like the walking dead through not being able to sleep because of the pain he is in and bless him he keeps apologising we have all said he has nothing to apologise for I think he is also feeling helpless tbh.
I'm also quite shattered tbh hopefully when I get my B12 injection tomorrow this should help.
My eldest did give his Dad a laugh when he said last week Dad I'm going to check the house and make sure the alarm is on as if anyone breaks in I'm the man of the house atm and let's face it we're goofed if anyone breaks in.
I'm just so grateful that hubby's work offers Physio as I dread to think how long this service would take on the NHS or cost going private as I remember years ago hubby attended a Chiropractic when he injured himself while doing Tae Kwon Do and that cost us a small fortune at the time but saying that it was money well spent at the time.