I'm Back...

Well for the last week or so I've been finding it very hard to function properly with large flare ups coming on my things and under my arms i have had to rely on my partner mostly for helping me do normal things as we all know too well. But it brought up a question for me, what do other people do for pain relief? 

For me i started off with taking paracetamol and ibuprofen as the doctor told me but as we all know they have no idea what they are talking about.. ME personally i was given Tramadol and Propanalol fro the pain and for a while it worked there was a period of about twelve months where whenever the pain got too much the Tramadol would help. The propanalol didn't do anything at all so i just stopped taking it. After a while the tramadol wasn't working anymore so i went back down to see my doctor. They weren't willing to give me anything for the pain until the Pharmacist had seen me so i had to wait a fortnight to see him with no pain relief. 

When i finally spoke to the pharmacist i asked him about being referred to a pain clinic but was told that my pain wasn't the right kind of pain? whatever the hell that means? When i finally told him that Tramadol had worked in the past he said that he would just up the dose. I asked him if there was anything else he could do as id heard horror stories about people getting addicted to them and he assured me that he would keep a close watch on me to ensure that everything was under control. After a few minutes of writing up prescriptions he turned to me and told me he was going to try me on codeine instead as it was a more natural substance. i informed him that the hospital had given me some before and that it hadn't worked but he insisted that these would and that if they didn't i had to call back in a few weeks and he would change the prescription but that if they did work it was fine because he was putting them on repeat for me.. 

So off i went home and of course they didn't work, i might as well of been taking Tic Tacs. I called to speak to him and was told that he had gone on leave, so i phoned the doctors to explain my predicament i was told that there was nothing there could do. So here i am sat months later still getting the same response,whenever i go to the doctors with a problem about HS and the pain i get told the same thing, 500mg of Flucloxacillin 4 times a day for a week and take paracetamol and Ibuprofen for the pain adn swelling...

So all in all i was wondering if there were anyone out there who had managed to find a form of pain relief that worked and what trial and error they had to endure? 
Thanks for listening
XOXO