My back is clearly in competition with Sel's except that mine has no reason at all. I felt it hurting more and more last night as I slept and turned over. Sometimes it hurts to turn over and I pull myself by my nightie. This morning I woke up when my neighbours got up (it was still dark) and by that point it hurt so much on the left that I couldn't lie on my left. By the time I woke up again, five minutes before my alarm went off, I couldn't lie with my legs bent either. My bed's against the wall on my right hand side, lying on my back, so I ended up getting out of bed backwards.

So I spent the day drugged up on ibuprofen. Only trouble is you can only take one or two every four hours and only six every day. Whenever I need them one is enough. But I've definitely had all six today, sometimes two at a time. Two does make it a bit better, but then I feel really drugged up.

I just laid down and watched TV with my rabbit hot water bottle on my back and it was doing really nicely. And then I got up. And the pills ran out. I'd go to bed and read my book at this point, except I need to give the pill time to kick in before I can think about getting up again. The most painful things being getting up, sitting down and putting any weight at all on my left leg.

It took me just over twenty minutes to do my ten minute walk to work this morning because the bus goes a different route at that time, so isn't terribly useful. I did get it home, though, which was nice. The good part is that the doctor has contacted the physio. They just don't seem to have contacted me. And they don't answer their phones. I left a message on their answer machine, no idea if they'll call me back or not.

The two most annoying things about this is that firstly I've not done anything to aggravate it. It's been mostly good recently because I've been careful not to do too much to aggravate it. The other annoying thing is that I was supposed to be going out to a quiz tonight, but didn't think I could sit in an uncomfortable chair (relatively speaking) for that long.

I really, really hope it's not this bad tomorrow.

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