Hi !

I???ve decided to finally concentrate on a goal I set last year!

I???m trying to collect 538 Spinestein Minipets...

And here???s why! (Long story ahead!)
Skip to the bottom of you don???t want the back story :thumbsup:
On the 1st of February 2017 I started getting bad lower back pain (I???d just turned 21) and I tried to get a doctors appointment for months with no avail. I had doctors ring me back for them to tell me to take painkillers, then stronger painkillers and then even stronger painkillers, all the while, never actually SEEING me. They all said ???It sounds like sciatica, should go in a few weeks???. The first time I actually saw a doctor was in October 2017 after sitting in A&E for 4.5 hours in complete agony.
The pain was getting progressively worse over time.
They signed me up for physio and overdosed me on meds
Physio didn???t help at all, often it made the pain worse.

I continued to complain to my doctors every week and they just weren???t interested at all. By the time it got to February 2018 (A whole year later!) I was no longer sleeping at night from the pain. I was getting 0-3 hours (in 20/30min bursts) every night and still going to work Monday-Friday. The pain was constant. From my lower back, all down my left leg and into my foot. All day, every day, no relief. And always worse at night.
Not only that, I was now bent over forward just above the hip where I physically could not stand up any straighter from the agony.

The doctors finally took some notice in March and in the April I was sent for a MRI. It came back inconclusive.
By the middle/end of June I was beside myself with pain and lack of sleep.
And it was then, when I told my mum I was going to kill myself because I couldn???t continue to live like that anymore because if I could look and live like I was and nobody in the medical profession cared after 16months, I was never going to get anywhere.
She brought me straight down to our GP and got me an immediate appointment by saying what I said and it was only then when I was crying to the doctor that I just want to die that they took any notice.
16 months of progressive pain and trying to get doctors notice.

They sent me