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Age 31-40
Interview CP21  

Interview CP21

Age at Interview: 32
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 26
Background: Administrator (trained as nurse); single.
Brief outline:Back pain came on after injury at work, 1993. Surgery: Discectomy. Treatments: Pain clinic. Epidural steroid injections. Pain management: NHS outpatient pain management course. Current medication: dihydrocodeine, tramadol (slow release), amitriptyline, gabapentin.


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Explains that she takes gabapentin, an antiepileptic drug which also relieves nerve pain.

 



And the most recent addition is gabapentin which... It's what's been amazing with pain management is they're now using a lot of drugs that weren't designed for pain management. Gabapentin was actually an anti-convulsant, but they found it has a really good affect on neuropathic nerve pain, which is the reason I'm on it. And I've had to increase the dose, I've had to increase it slowly, because in combination with everything else I'm on, when I first started taking it, I was just absolutely, I was not with the world for a few weeks, I was just absolutely asleep.  

But, as time's gone on, I've got used to it. I'm absolutely fine on it again now. And I've got to a level at the moment where I haven't had to increase it for a few weeks, so I'm hoping I'll be able to keep it at the level where I am for a while, with room to increase if I get worse again.  
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