Blimey, thanks Mick! To be honest I was happy to leave my £20 in the pot as I'd had to cancel at short notice, so I'm prepared to chip in again if it'll help.
Have all Boinger folk got bad backs?
Mine's got steadily worse over the last 8+ years now. 2x MRI's, loads of different treatments (inc. facet joint injections- ouch!) have all failed and it's been diagnosed as degenerative disc disease with a couple prolapsed in the lumbar. Sometimes I have good days where you'd think "there's nowt bloody wrong with him" but many others where I need a stick and walk like a 95yr old. Unfortunately the surgeon doesn't want to operate, as I still have feeling in my legs and control of bodily functions!
A doc put me on Tramadol t'other week and I subsequently spent 4 days high as a kite before telling the Mrs I'd had enough and stopped taking it. I promptly went 'cold turkey' with sweats, shivers, nausea, blurred vision and 'restless skin' meaning 48 hours without sleep. It took as many days to come down off it as I'd been on it; bloody awful stuff!