pain & awkwardness

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Those of you who soak up what you read may remember that I suffer from aches and pains. Also, I actually have quite a high tolerance for pain. For the past couple of months my left knee has been giving me jip. And in the last two weeks the pain has been excruciating, to the point where walking, standing, sitting and being horizontal are all causing my face to contort with the agony of it all. It has all rather meant that I have become the microscopic bug in the staffrom and all the 'experts' have been dishing out their sage advice, which comes from books, the internet and the tellybox. I need magnesium. I need black molasses. I need a food diary. I need cannabis oil. I need vitamin D. I need iron. I need acupuncture. I need strong painkillers. I need a cold compress. I need a hot compress. I need to rest it. I need to raise it. I need to keep moving on it. I need to stretch it. I need turmeric tea. I need to lose weight. I need to chop my leg off. Okay, so i may have made that last last one up, but I need to know you're still listening. As it stands {pun not intended} I have seen my GP. I have also seen the senior nurse with an interest/specialism in these things. I have had blood tests, and I'm being referred to Rheumatology, which will probably take four to six weeks. You'll be pleased to know that it isn't Fibromyalgia! beamed the nurse last week. Well, no. I'm not. I would have been happy with that because it would explain my fatigue and the pain I experience all over my body. They're all just concentrating on the knee pain, and at the moment that pain is masking the other pain. Yesterday my Line Manager told me to go home. I said no. Whether I'm at home or at work, the pain is going to be the same. At least work keeps me occupied. Besides, I don't want to further tarnish my formerly exemplary absence record! *smile*