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Interview CP24

Age at Interview: 54
Background: Studying art/ incapacitated nursery nurse; married; 2 children.
Brief outline:Back pain following injury at work, 1994. Treatments: Epidural steroid injections. TENS. Pain management: Graded exercise programme. Outpatient NHS Pain management programme. Current medication: Occasional use of co-proxamol.


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Used to take medication but found it wasn't helping and now only takes any when her sleep is disturbed.

 



You said earlier that you don't take medication now, but in the past you've had experience of medication?

Yes, I took paracetamols, ibuprofen, anti-inflamatories, and then I was prescribed co-proxamol, which are pretty good, they're a bit sledge hammery, they tend to knock you out a bit and also all these things make you constipated. 

So, you know, you get, you take one thing to relieve one thing and you end up with something else and after nearly ten years I came to realise, last year, I did a little test with myself, to see if I could manage without them, because I thought “Well this is ridiculous, I don't think they're doing very much” and I stopped taking them and I will only take them occasionally, if I really can't sleep, if I'm having a very bad night. 

In fact it's my husband that suggests I take them so that he can get some sleep. But I try not to take them. I can't see a lot of point. I can't see that I gain much at all, apart from feeling very fuzzy in the head and I don't like that feeling.
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