I was lucky to have a full night sleep last night and wasn’t woken by the beast as i normally am in the early hours. I don’t know why i managed a full night i am just grateful and actually feel a lot better for it. Being woken in the early hours really drains the energy out of you when it all the time. The doctor was brilliant yesterday and has started to help to chase up all my outstanding appointments and hopefully the start of this year we will be able to make some sort of action plan.
The doctor as assured me that the chest pains i am getting are nothing to do with the heart and are something to do with an infection i had. She also feels that i may be suffering from a rare type of stomach bug that i may have caught in Cyprus and that i may have been suffering from side effects for all the time i have been back in this country so that’s almost 13 years total. Every time i eat i always get food or liquid stuck in my throat and takes ages to go down almost suffocating me. I now have to wait another 2 weeks and not take any medication for the stomach so they can do blood tests and see if i have this bug.
My walking is still bad and has been like this ever since the weather became cold and wet again. In the summer and spring periods i don’t seem to get the problems walking so i think it is something to do with arthritis or the nerve that is playing up when i have attacks. Maybe the nerve swelling up is what is causing the problems and when i walk i always seem to have a constant ache in the middle of my back and then when it gets very painful it seems to spread into my bum cheeks on either side. If i am carrying shopping back from a supermarket and carrying a heavy bag in one hand then the opposite side cheek become very painful and if i swap hands with the bag then the pain will swap sides. They have booked me an appointment to have an MRI scan on the back neck and spine but again we are still awaiting the appointment so i will have to chase it up today and tomorrow and see if i can get seen soon.
I managed to chase up the specialist after all these months waiting for an appointment. I got so fed up with waiting and cancellations i decided to ring the hospital and kick off. Now normally if you did this they would just put down the telephone on you as its not really their fault as they are only the booking office, If your specialist is busy then there is no way you will get seen but for some reason it seemed to work and within 10 minuets of screaming at them about the cancellations and the state i was in they finally gave me a new appointment for the 20th of this month. Thank god i will finally get to see the specialist and hopefully new medication that will help me get these attacks under control.
