Question: Hi, I was admitted into hospital at the beginning of XXXXXXX this year, suffering from excruciating lower back pain. I was diagnosed with discitis, a biopset was taken from an area of infection, and after the culture was grown, the correct antibiotics were given through a Hickman line. I was bed ridden for several weeks due to pain, and had to learn how to re mobilise with the help of physiotherapy.
I was discharged from hospital at the end of August, and community nurses administered my antibiotic daily until two weeks later I was rushed back into hospital with an infection in my Hickman which was removed, and I spent a further 9 days in hospital!
Since then, I am taking a large number of oral antibiotics, and painkillers. My mobility is slowly improving, but only slowly. I still have pain in my back, it feels like a stiffness as though someone has put a board across it, and I finding a comfortable position when sleeping is hard to do. I have also started suffering from oedema in my feet and lower legs for which I have been prescribed water tablets. I have days when I feel like I might be making headway with every thing, and days when I feel like things are worse. From being a fit woman in her late 40's I feel like an old lady.
My question is this. Will things really get better? Will I ever get back to some normality, bearing in mind that I first took ill at the start of June? I want to get back to work and function like a real human being again....it's depressing.