I have had constant right side pain, sometime lower abdominal, pain in right lung area and right shoulder for 15 months. Cannot lie down, very little sleep. Doc has done all sorts of scans and tests and apart from mild kidney stones about 9 months ago nothing has been diagnosed.
Initial thoughts were gallbladder, I am 47 and overweight and when I was admitted to hospital I was told I had shingles and sent home the next day. I have been told that I now have PHN and have recently suffered a flare up of shingles.
I am absolutely at the end of my tether, painkillers don't work and just about get through each day at work, but am emotionally and physically exhausted the rest of the time. This effects all parts of my life and my husband and I have slept with a pillow between us for a year now - I can't bear the thought of that area being touched. Sometime the pain is most severe just under my back shoulder and on a scale of 1 - 10, it is a 10! I sometimes think that I can't go on.