You are preaching to the choir SINS. I am in constant pain. I am constantly tired and low.

I seem to have dropped off the radar of the Pain Clinic, after I called to cancel my last acupuncture appointment due to having nasty tummy bug. There are signs all over the hospital that state, if you have vomiting or diarrhoea you should not come into hospital. So I cancelled the appointment and since it was less than 24 hours notice, I have probably been struck from their patient list. That is pretty standard.

So I have to go back to GP and get another referral to Pain Clinic, which they may reject because I didn't cancel last appointment in good time. Then I will have to go back to GP or appeal to Primary Care Trust. I don't have the energy for it all. Besides the Pain Clinic didn't really do that much for me as far as pain management goes. What I need is for the inflammation to be dealt with but as my bloods don't show it to be very high, then the RA consultant cannot give me stronger drugs to bring the inflammation under control. I am stuck in bureaucracies and guidances that prevent me getting any real relief.

Maybe I don't complain loud enough. I am back on the codiene tylenol stuff, which helps me sleep, but leaves me cognitively dysfunctional next day.