Which ailments currently beplague you - The Bear and Badger

g.man

Ah that sucks Jon. Hope it all works out.

pantyfire

Erm from the size is be very surprised if you passed it. Can you imagine that fucker making its way down your toot-toot!?
The OP sounds like a blessing disguise.

Diluted Dante

I think I managed to hurt myself from coughing. It's very difficult to find a position I can actually sleep in, and it's also given me a sore throat which hurts when I swallow. Painkillers are touching none of this.

Then I'll get comfortable, and a tickley cough will start which ends with me choking so I have to get up.

Fuck illness.

bad_hair_day

Sucking a Boots/Superdrug catarrh pastille just before bed helped me Dante.

TheDJR

Somehow tweaked my back while sleeping on Tuesday and have barely been able to walk since, this happened a few months ago but it got better after about 5 days. I originally injured my back lifting something at work years ago but I've never seen anyone about it, I think I will when it's better this time.

Dinostar77

NHS make me so angry at times. Back in early November a shelf full of plates dropped on to my wrist and forearm. Been having pain ever since. Went to A&E as the pain wasn't going away and got told they wouldn't take an xray. So next day went to doctors who sent me to A&E for an xray.
No break found. Then had to wait to get another doctor appointment so I could get a referral to hospital to find out what was going on with my wrist and forearm. In the meantime have been wearing a splint. Also taking painkillers and using deep heat gel.

So finally go to hospital, doctor referred me to fracture clinic. See first doctor, explain the issues. He makes me do some exercises with my hand and wrist. He goes away to speak to a consultant. In the meantime while he's away I develop a headache. I've been getting headaches and bouts of nausea ever since I hurt my wrist originally.

A condescending cock of a eastern european consultant comes in. Does some checks again and says there's nothing wrong with my wrist or forearm. That I should take ibuprofen and deep heat regularly. Stuff I've already been doing.

Then I explain the link to my wrist and headaches and he doesn't believe me. "it's not possible there is no link", "it's coincidence", "you must have high blood pressure". "Theres nothing we can do for you". "You don't need physiotherapy". "you're a man live with the pain".

Brilliant. Completely and utterly useless. Afterwards I do a quick Google and guess what I find, a clinical study which has found a link between the symptoms I have and headaches from back in 2015. I wish I'd had found that before the hospital appointment.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150323130853.htm

So I'm back to square one. Treat myself with some natural remedies and some cold compression etc. Honestly, the NHS is a fecking mess.

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Those fucking eastern Europeans eh

M0stly harm13ss

A British doctor would have given him a good old cocaine suppository and a ball of opium to be getting on with.

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I understand why you’re unhappy, Dino, but what I take from that is that the consultant has been too busy (overworked) to read a paper on an unlikely-seeming link.

Because they’re so under pressure, A&E have to impose strict rules about who they treat. Injuries no more than 48 hours old. If you’ve lived with it for a while, you can wait to see your GP while they deal with emergencies.

GooberTheHat

Fell down the stairs yesterday (not arse over tit thankfully, more a slip). I appeared to have stopped my bumpy slide down by wedging my little toe against the banister spindle.

It fucking knacks, it's purple and about twice the size it should be. Now that's nice if you're with a lady, but it ain't no good in the jungle!

g.man

Get to the chiropa!

Dark Soldier

jesus christ

TheDJR

I can barely walk still, I can’t imagine how anyone copes with this on a permanent basis.

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GooberTheHat wrote:

Fell down the stairs yesterday (not arse over tit thankfully, more a slip). I appeared to have stopped my bumpy slide down by wedging my little toe against the banister spindle. It fucking knacks, it's purple and about twice the size it should be. Now that's nice if you're with a lady, but it ain't no good in the jungle!

Late last year, my sister-in-law slipped on a wet bathroom floor in her hotel room. She broke her fall by wedging a reinforced glass shower guard between two of her toes, which put a good inch long split up the middle of her foot.

Cos

Andy wrote:

Late last year, my sister-in-law slipped on a wet bathroom floor in her hotel room. She broke her fall by wedging a reinforced glass shower guard between two of her toes, which put a good inch long split up the middle of her foot.

Holy fuck. My whole body winced at the thought of that.

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TheDJR wrote:

I can barely walk still, I can’t imagine how anyone copes with this on a permanent basis.

My back just went randomly. It's excruciatingly painful. I can only walk like an invalid.

You have my sympathies. I think I need to work on my core before it's too late. If you're sitting in front of a screen for a living back issues are a high risk activity

Diluted Dante

Shit.

tin_robot

legaldinho wrote:

TheDJR wrote:

I can barely walk still, I can’t imagine how anyone copes with this on a permanent basis.

My back just went randomly. It's excruciatingly painful. I can only walk like an invalid. You have my sympathies. I think I need to work on my core before it's too late. If you're sitting in front of a screen for a living back issues are a high risk activity

Sorry you've both had back problems, I can sympathise. My wife's back went out at work about 18 months ago. She was bending down to look into some kid's ear, then excruciating pain and she passed out. She spent about 3 days in which any significant movement caused agony and/or blackouts. (Her disc didn't so much prolapse, as explode.) To put it in perspective, this is a woman who didn't require any pain relief at all during childbirth. She's now a hell of a lot better than she was (though still gets a kind of constant background ache, and numbness in one leg). She's stopped working at least partly because of it.

So, yeah, anyone with niggling back pain, I strongly recommend getting some physio, and working on your back, before it does anything too dramatic...

Roujin

Planks, errbody do planks. Better than nothing and piss easy no impact exercise.

Unlikely

After months of nagging from my wife I'm going to see a physio about my back tomorrow. Dunno what's wrong with it but I get occasional "twinges" (actually a sudden violent stabbing pain at the base of my spine) that on more than one occasion has almost caused me to collapse. Typically happens if I make sudden movements in reaction to something I wasn't expecting, e.g. almost bumping in to someone coming through a doorway. It's accompanied by a very difficult to describe sort of weakness - a feeling that my top half is balanced on a single, very unstable point at the base of my spine and that it could give out at any time. I'm trying to figure out how to explain this to the physio.

It might be nice to be able to put my socks on like a normal person too.

g.man

Trapped nerve mayber?

Diluted Dante

I had that about 15 years ago, which seemed to come in relation to getting out of bed. Then it just went. Fucker is probably saving up a really big one.

FranticPea

Unlikely wrote:

After months of nagging from my wife I'm going to see a physio about my back tomorrow. Dunno what's wrong with it but I get occasional "twinges" (actually a sudden violent stabbing pain at the base of my spine) that on more than one occasion has almost caused me to collapse. Typically happens if I make sudden movements in reaction to something I wasn't expecting, e.g. almost bumping in to someone coming through a doorway. It's accompanied by a very difficult to describe sort of weakness - a feeling that my top half is balanced on a single, very unstable point at the base of my spine and that it could give out at any time. I'm trying to figure out how to explain this to the physio.

It might be nice to be able to put my socks on like a normal person too.

Hope they get it sorted.

I haven't been able to put my right sock on properly for 30 years due to my dodgy hip. Have to lie on my side and do it unsighted behind my back. It's a tad annoying.

Gremill

My back is pretty fucked too - working in HMV for a few years with no moving & handling training was the start of my problems. Then the whole having kids thing exacerbated it, picking them up as babies in the middle of the night whilst half asleep further is a recipe for torn muscles and my desk based career hasn’t exactly helped.

I’ve been mostly fine for a few years though, I think mainly due to the shoulder issues I have with my rotator cuff which has required physio and a course of steroid injections. The shoulder injury (which was excruciating - like someone stabbing you in the collar bone and yanking all of the veins out of your arm through the top of you shoulder) was caused by picking up a towel.

That’s settled a lot though, although I only have about 80% movement in it - which is fine as my gout is the main problems these days.

Ain’t life grand?

HawBawJaws

My backs been moderately ok recently. Still tanking painkillers and anti inflammatories for it though. Hopefully figure out what to do with it this year.