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Age 61-80
Interview CP43  

Interview CP43

Age at Interview: 64
Sex: Male
Background: Medically retired lorry driver; single.
Brief outline:Back pain since accident at home in 1993. Treatments: Facet joint injections. Pain management: In-patient NHS pain management programme. Current medication: co-dydramol Past medication: co-proxamol.


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Felt that learning to live with an eye problem has helped him accept his back pain.

 



Its, I mean the way you're talking it seems like you've realised that pain's going to be part of your life?

Oh yeah.

How did you come to realise that?

When they first told me that there is no cure, they couldn't cure it. Mostly, I think I learnt it with me eyes first off, because I went, it took eight years for the hospital to acknowledge that I had a problem with me eyes, they thought they cured it when they operated, but they hadn't.

But in actual fact that was a bit of a godsend to me, 'cos that helped me with me back, once I learnt to control me eyes. It took me over a year, eighteen months to control them, but once I'd controlled myself with me eyes, then I done the self same thing with me back virtually and it paid off.
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