I have to admit it was good being away from here and not needing to visit for so long. However, we can't always escape our problems and recently mine came screaming back with vengeance. I was going so well until a medical problem required some treatment and unfortunately for me the doctors were treating the symptoms and not the cause.

In this case the cause was an impinged nerve in my back which was creating nerve pain in my leg, and the way the doctors chose to treat it was via a medication which contains Lyrica. I had read up on it with the paperwork the doctor had given me. It did outline the fact it can impact mental health and to keep an eye on things. Well, I was going well apart from the nerve pain getting stronger, this resulted in an increase in medication. Suddenly I had gone from 1 tablet a day to 2 at 75mg and the pain was masked. Unfortunately for me the problem was it was also slowly impacting my mental health.

Since getting off the drug I have found a few other things that it had an impact on which I experienced but didn't know until recently.