Hi peeps

I'll try and answer one person at a time - I have spent time writing on today's posts - but let's get to mine

My pain is okay today - and I am going up to the shop to get a salad sandwich very soon - and I am seeing my GP this afternoon - and my psychologist tomorrow

@utopia - I know your mother is in a lot of pain and neither condition is easily dealt with - CRPS is brutal - I was a support member in a website for Chronic Pain in the US - things got really tense there because they got onto MMJ and I am against their "pushing it". What people take like that is their own business but I am not - and long story short - my opinion wasn't required and the manager told me to "Go Away" - so I did

However I learned a lot when I was there - and I know that CRPS really harsh pain - a cruel condition - and my second cousin has fibro and she is in her early twenties - that condition takes people's lives away

About my pain - I have no idea what it looks like - and I realised when I saw me in the family photo my dd took at Christmas that I was standing badly - and since then I have been standing up straight - and the weight on my corroded end plates - the surfaces of the vertebae that have the degenerating discs between them - cause pain and it is so localised there is no mistaking it - that is way I was standing badly in the first place

I don't know how to "play it up" and my GP really does know why it hurts and he sees it and I think he is really concerned and would write more medication except the specialist is the one who has the say so, I am allowed injections twice a week which helps a lot so that is a good thing - and that is the best part

But perhaps it was all my writing yesterday - I felt better when I got up this morning - and it's time for me to go to the shops - it was a good idea to write my own thread - my story is complex and here people can look back and see it

Thanks @utopia - I know your mother is battling - say Hi to her for me

Dec