I had a severe episode of back pain yesterday and into today.
It started yesterday afternoon, was in my shed swapping over the innards from my RC Tiger tank over to a new Taigen metal lower hull and I started to get this gnawing discomfort at the base of back, it slowly got worse so I packed in and turned the power off, locked up and managed to amble inside. I took some painkillers and my wife rubbed some gel into my back but it got that bad with the pain, it was now around my hips that I couldn't stand and my legs gave way. I tried to get the loo and couldn't couldn't even sit up on the edge of the bed. I was dosed up on pain meds and 75mg of Amitriptyline that I slept soundly.
I woke just before 6am needing the loo so I gingerly moved, hoping that the rest and painkillers had eased my back. No, the moment I tried to sit up it exploded in pain-luckily we have a bottle so I had to use that. At 6:30 my wife phoned 111 and a emergency responder arrive-in fact it was an ambulance and three paramedics-two very pretty ladies and a young lad-they were lovely and helped me and I ended up having a full bottle of gas and air. I had a choice-go to the hospital or the emergency docs-the paramedics got me down stairs and they sorted out the docs for me-got there and I am on high strength Co-codomal and Diazepam.
Back home and had some doses of these meds, slept this afternoon and then the pain woke me, had some more meds and it seems to be okay-ish at the moment.
Looks like I have tramped a nerve and the muscles are spasm-the pain was unbearable, I know it was bad when I just let my wife phone for medical help-if your like me most guys just hang on and hope it will get better.
So, no modelling for me for a few days-have been told not to go into my shed or start to do anything-fed up as I wanted the P-III and the Tiger finished for my boat club open day on the 10th
It started yesterday afternoon, was in my shed swapping over the innards from my RC Tiger tank over to a new Taigen metal lower hull and I started to get this gnawing discomfort at the base of back, it slowly got worse so I packed in and turned the power off, locked up and managed to amble inside. I took some painkillers and my wife rubbed some gel into my back but it got that bad with the pain, it was now around my hips that I couldn't stand and my legs gave way. I tried to get the loo and couldn't couldn't even sit up on the edge of the bed. I was dosed up on pain meds and 75mg of Amitriptyline that I slept soundly.
I woke just before 6am needing the loo so I gingerly moved, hoping that the rest and painkillers had eased my back. No, the moment I tried to sit up it exploded in pain-luckily we have a bottle so I had to use that. At 6:30 my wife phoned 111 and a emergency responder arrive-in fact it was an ambulance and three paramedics-two very pretty ladies and a young lad-they were lovely and helped me and I ended up having a full bottle of gas and air. I had a choice-go to the hospital or the emergency docs-the paramedics got me down stairs and they sorted out the docs for me-got there and I am on high strength Co-codomal and Diazepam.
Back home and had some doses of these meds, slept this afternoon and then the pain woke me, had some more meds and it seems to be okay-ish at the moment.
Looks like I have tramped a nerve and the muscles are spasm-the pain was unbearable, I know it was bad when I just let my wife phone for medical help-if your like me most guys just hang on and hope it will get better.
So, no modelling for me for a few days-have been told not to go into my shed or start to do anything-fed up as I wanted the P-III and the Tiger finished for my boat club open day on the 10th
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