thanks for the warm welcome to this wonderful forum everyone

Broken Wings,i'm in the UK so we tend not to be able to change doctors and none of the doctors in my general practice will write me another script for valium,1 week's supply is all i could have as they said i needed a longer term solution,i guess they're worried that i might've become addicted.

The Dicolfenic is ok and the 10mgs of Amiltriptiline lets me sleep but neither worked as well as the valium.I've started to have Epsom Salt baths and thats helping plus i've just started to add Magnesiom Taurate and Vitimin D3 to my arsenal of weapons so heres hoping for more improvement

I have to go back to PT next week and i'm going to ask if swimming would help.I don't mind pushing through the pain if it'll do me good but at this present moment,i don't know how much i should push it as i've been told to exercise but respect the pain