With respect the pain is relative to the person with a bad back. To say someone else has worse pain does not help. My ankylosing spondylitis produced iritis. This is where the iris swells within the eyeball. Whilst receiving treatment and moaning about the pain the nurse pointed out that a lot...
Few points to make. The first is that the NHS has ridiculous waiting times.
Secondly for 3 years from 1988-91 I was almost unable to move from swollen joints (not those but they did help medicinally). My GP said I was overdoing things and that was all. I went to an osteopath who said I had two...