Hi
I'm looking for some advice / thoughts on a few symptoms I have.
For around 2 years now I have had terrible back pain that has only got worse, it's mainly 95% of the time when I lay down.
Early days when it began, I thought it was a change of mattress that was causing it, but it wasn't.
Basically, if I lay down for more than a hour, my spine gets so painful, I cannot even get up the pain is that bad without aid from someone.
This in the early days was controlled by Tramadol given by my GP.
I had a MRI for severe leg pains around 12 years ago, which showed nothing.
This leg pain went around 6 years ago.
However, over the last 6 months the pain has got so bad now, I barely sleep as it's too painful to go to bed.
I've had diarrhoea on and off now for around a year, I do have IBS.
But these days, soon as I eat I have to use the toilet.
I get severe cramps and the pain is so bad I double up with it.
Recently, around 2-3 months my back pain as now turned into having right side mid pain, it's strange because if I lay on my left it doesn't happen.
But the pain is like I've been kicked and it's bruised my internals.
The longer I lay on my right side the worser the pain gets, again if it gets so bad it disables me and I need help to get up even.
It's not there during the day or when I'm up.
I am genuinely concerned but I'm looking for advice because I have a huge phobia of blood tests, so bad I have no control over it, and I actually black out cold for a good few minutes and have fits during.
I know that when I go to the GP the first of all tests will be bloods.
I just first need some ideas what this could be :-(