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• Chronic health issues >> Chronic Pain >> Age 41-60 >> Interview CP03 >> Tells how he was weaned off a lot of his medication and could reduce it even more by using breathing and relaxation tapes instead.

Brachial plexus injury following motorbike accident in 1983. Two failed nerve operations. Treatment: Pain Clinic for TENS and nerve block. Pain management: Pain Association Scotland Living with Pain course. Current medication: co-codomal.

• Chronic health issues >> Chronic Pain >> Age 41-60 >> Interview CP15 >> Feels frustrated that she cannot reduce her medication for nerve pain, but has found her GP very supportive.

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 20-30 >> Interview CP19 >> Had to stop her medication in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Pelvic pain since menstruation, 1992 and back pain. Treatment: Laser laparoscopy. Medication to suppress periods. Pain management: One-to-one psychology. Current Medication: co-codamol (Tylex), sodium diclofenac (Voltarol), amitriptyline and morphine for flare-up.

• Chronic health issues >> Chronic Pain >> Age 41-60 >> Interview CP28 >> After surgery she experienced withdrawal side effects because the medical staff had not picked up that she needed to restart her morphine tablets.

Neck injury during surgery (hysterectomy), 1993. Surgery: Cervical discectomy followed by microsurgery to release trapped nerves. Pain managment: Out-patient pain management clinic. Medication: morphine, co-codamol (Tylex), diclofenac.

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• Chronic health issues >> Chronic Pain >> Managing, taking and stopping medication >> Managing, taking and stopping medication

Managing, taking and stopping medication