Recent content by Catred

So the most disheartening thing a doctor has said to me is that I have more severe degenerative changes in my spine than would be expected for my age and that there was no way to change these and they would get worse with time. I came away that day feeling severely depressed and feeling that my...

I am trying to continue physical activity but am still frightened of increasing my pain. Should you try and build up slowly or just launch back into your former life? One of my biggest issues is being unable to drive- I start for 5 minutes at a time and manage for a couple of days and then my...

My problems started fairly suddenly with burning bladder pain but no one could find anything wrong. This was just as we were going into the first lockdown. I realised that I was having some burning in my feet and legs and thought the whole thing was probably a spinal nerve problem. Then I...