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• Chronic health issues >> Chronic Pain >> Age 41-60 >> Interview CP15 >> Finds that she gets a dry mouth from taking amitriptyline and has to use special toothpaste to protect her teeth.

Pins and needle, numbness and neck pain since 1996. Surgery: Neck surgery for cervical mylenopathy. Treatment: Physiotherapy before and after surgery. Pain Clinic given oral steroids. Pain management: NHS outpatient pain management programme. Current medication: gabapentin, amitriptyline.

• Chronic health issues >> Chronic Pain >> Age 31-40 >> Interview CP21 >> Explains that she takes gabapentin, an antiepileptic drug which also relieves nerve pain.

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.

• Chronic health issues >> Chronic Pain >> Interview CP49 >> A doctor explains that acute pain acts as a warning system but with chronic pain the pain system becomes sensitised.

• Chronic health issues >> Chronic Pain >> Age 31-40 >> Interview CP39 >> Was disappointed that his GP did not explain that the antidepressant was to treat his nerve pain, not depression.

Neck and arm pain since 2003 aggravated by working at computer workstation. Treatment: Physiotherapy, NHS and police convalescent home. Current medication: tramadol slow release, tramadol, amitriptyline.

• Chronic health issues >> Chronic Pain >> Interview CP49 >> A doctor explains that there are different pathways that carry information about pain to the brain.

• Chronic health issues >> Chronic Pain >> Interview CP49 >> A doctors describes some of the different causes of chronic pain and our understanding of the biological pain mechanisms.

• Chronic health issues >> Chronic Pain >> Age 20-30 >> Interview CP23 >> Describes the side effects that she has with Neurontin (gabapentin).

Pain due to damage to spinal cord from Chiari I Malformation and syringomyelia. Pain started 1997. Surgery: Essential cranial cervical decompression and laminectomy, 1999. Treatment: Pain Clinic for medication. Current medication: gabapentin (Neurontin), dothiepin, tramadol.