Steve, best of luck mate. My daughter was rushed into Walton Hosp in Liverpool 2 yrs ago with severe pain down her right side ,after complaint to her doctor for months of pain and pins and needles in her side and back, and having been sent home by our local hospital a week earlier, told it was sciatica and to take painkillers. When she got Walton, they were ready prepped and rushed into theatre. Four hous later they had removed a disc which was crushing the nerve sack. She was out after a week, but had a dropped foot and was limping terribly. She is OK now thank God, but it took a long time.
The doctors at
Walton really told her off because she hadn't gone sooner(although as I say she had been to local GP and had had scans at our local hosp! ) Walton said she had developed corda Aquino and could have been paralysed if she had left it any longer!dont want to worry you but as ?I said don't leave it!
Cheers Les