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Pain is making me afraid to stand up

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Im sorry to hear you are having such a tough time. Your GP is a good first point of call to talk through your symptoms and see if they can offer more support around pain.
Your GP may:
There's lots of self-help advice available from a variety of organisations supporting people living with long-term pain, such as:
- A Way With Pain
- Action on Pain
- British Pain Society
- Pain Concern
- Pain Support
You say you havent managed to do the exercises given to you, do you have anyone who can support you with these? To remind and encourage you? I have physio exercises and I set an alarm on my phone to prompt me to do them, could that work for you?There is more information about pain management on the NHS here.
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My problem isn't really the pain, well pain is nasty, don't want it, can't use it but it's not being able to do what I need to do that's really horrible. The pain comes from muscle spasms in the leg and sometimes my legs just give way under me. I have walked with my leg muscles spasming but oh heck it's just too risky. I live alone and I need to use my emergency button (always with me) to get up. They then have to call an ambulance as they're not allowed to get me up (I'm 6'2" and 16 stone). Burly paramedics get me up. You see I get scared.
I need physio but I need encouragement too. That's the tricky bit.
I've had a good talk with my GP this morning. But you always remember stuff after they've gone.
Thank you so much for this. it's direct encouragement. Something I'm short of.