A friend of mine wished me to post this up ( his typing, copied and pasted etc)
I had played rugby since age 6 up until about the last stages of 2009 in which I started to experience horrific pain in the backs of both of my leg, the years previous I had already had knee pains for a couple of months but they were just brushed off as "water beneath the knee or something". Throughout 2010 I was unable to play rugby or really do any sports or to that matter walk at the same pace as my peers, walk for a long time , walk up any sort of incline. Without the familiar burning/electronic throbbing pain in the backs of my legs. This continued through 2010 and into 2011. During the last parts of December and the start of the new year I started experiencing a weird vibrating in the top of my head , which was diagnosed as a tension headache. For that I was prescribed amitriptyline and ibuprofen(was replaced with naproxen because it didn't work) until February in which I was in a road traffic accident (knocked by a car whilst i was riding my moped) . The accident itself was not terribly major, I got very bad bruising ( or internal) on both my legs, whiplash and was thought to have severed a ligament in my left leg. I was put on 50mg diclofenac 3 times a day plus 1-100mg Tramadol 3 times a day (which was upped to 2-100mg) and diazepam to help me get to sleep (which it did not, I felt nothing) so I used a friends .5mg Clonazepam twice to see if it would help. It did a little but not much. Now I've run out/stopped taking all my medication as I was told to taper off, and the pain is just as bad if not worse.
I don't have much love or trust of my doctors, and know a lot of you are quite apt in the fields of relieving pain and what to do etc. May I just have an odd body type as I am totally tolerant to codeine and tramadol (plus all the regular painkillers like paracetamol) and don't respond much to valium. Could I have damaged my nerves during the year and a half that my shin splints were not treated?
I had played rugby since age 6 up until about the last stages of 2009 in which I started to experience horrific pain in the backs of both of my leg, the years previous I had already had knee pains for a couple of months but they were just brushed off as "water beneath the knee or something". Throughout 2010 I was unable to play rugby or really do any sports or to that matter walk at the same pace as my peers, walk for a long time , walk up any sort of incline. Without the familiar burning/electronic throbbing pain in the backs of my legs. This continued through 2010 and into 2011. During the last parts of December and the start of the new year I started experiencing a weird vibrating in the top of my head , which was diagnosed as a tension headache. For that I was prescribed amitriptyline and ibuprofen(was replaced with naproxen because it didn't work) until February in which I was in a road traffic accident (knocked by a car whilst i was riding my moped) . The accident itself was not terribly major, I got very bad bruising ( or internal) on both my legs, whiplash and was thought to have severed a ligament in my left leg. I was put on 50mg diclofenac 3 times a day plus 1-100mg Tramadol 3 times a day (which was upped to 2-100mg) and diazepam to help me get to sleep (which it did not, I felt nothing) so I used a friends .5mg Clonazepam twice to see if it would help. It did a little but not much. Now I've run out/stopped taking all my medication as I was told to taper off, and the pain is just as bad if not worse.
I don't have much love or trust of my doctors, and know a lot of you are quite apt in the fields of relieving pain and what to do etc. May I just have an odd body type as I am totally tolerant to codeine and tramadol (plus all the regular painkillers like paracetamol) and don't respond much to valium. Could I have damaged my nerves during the year and a half that my shin splints were not treated?