[speaker001:] Hello.
[speaker002:] Hello doctor.
[speaker001:] Hello Anna. What can I do for you tonight?
[speaker002:] so help us, in here the back of my neck, and across here. elbows.
[speaker001:] Oh oh. Neuralgia.
[speaker002:] And all down my
[speaker001:] [cough]
[speaker002:] down my, see even here Doctor
[speaker001:] Aye.
[speaker002:] my fingers and that you know?
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] Sometimes I feel as if I cannae stand it
[speaker001:] down there. [cough] Excuse me.
[speaker002:] . See in here in my neck, too
[speaker001:] Aye. Mhm.
[speaker002:] it's as if sometimes when I... turn round, oh dear aha
[speaker001:] You feel it
[speaker002:] Aha.
[speaker001:] catching there? Aye, right.
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] Aye. That's a s that's a neuralgia, a, a slight
[speaker002:] Is it?
[speaker001:] inflammation on the nerves
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] where they come down there.
[speaker002:] Aha.
[speaker001:] And they go through
[speaker002:] . Aha. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] Right. Okay. I'm not going to [LAUGHTER] poke about []
[speaker002:] Aha.
[speaker001:] but er that's right. Right down here, across here, right there, here. That's right.
[speaker002:] And I thought across here too, terrible here. Here as if it was gonna. And see my elbows?
[speaker001:] like a toothache.
[speaker002:] My elbows were sore
[speaker001:] That's right. That's right.
[speaker002:] and everything, you know in behind the ear here, I felt as if my head was
[speaker001:] Aye.
[speaker002:] swollen.
[speaker001:] From here, right up over
[speaker002:] Aye.
[speaker001:] the top,
[speaker002:] Aha.
[speaker001:] and then from there right down the back,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] across the
[speaker002:] Aha.
[speaker001:] shoulders, around the front here,
[speaker002:] Aha.
[speaker001:] down here, into your elbows,
[speaker002:] Aye.
[speaker001:] with a toothache and then right down your fingers.
[speaker002:] Then your fingers, aha, aye. Now doctor, I was up, I had that terrible pain across here,
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[speaker002:] I thought I was taking a heart attack, but er Doctor gave me a rub of that Di Difa Dif
[speaker001:] Diflam.
[speaker002:] Diflam?
[speaker001:] Diflam. Yes
[speaker002:] Aha.
[speaker001:] that's right....
[speaker002:] So would I, would I still use that or what do you think, painkillers or what doctor?
[speaker001:] No there is a, there's a special stuff I'm going to give you
[speaker002:] Is there?
[speaker001:] to get rid of this for you.... Now the other thing that very often goes with this is... a... crunching noise
[speaker002:] That's right.
[speaker001:] when you, when you move your neck.
[speaker002:] See sometimes i well not all the time
[speaker001:] No no. No.
[speaker002:] but sometimes you feel as if it's going to jerk you
[speaker001:] yeah, that's right.
[speaker002:] you know you're not going to be [LAUGHTER] able to move it any []
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] and it's going to stay that way.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] No, Anna, you're alright. []
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] You're alright. [] Now... [cough] you're still working?
[speaker002:] Yes, aha.
[speaker001:] Ah, right. Take these tablets just at bedtime.
[speaker002:] Aha.
[speaker001:] Don't take them during the day.... Just two of these... you can either take one after your cup of tea, and one before you go to bed
[speaker002:] Bed, aha.
[speaker001:] or you can leave them both till bedtime.
[speaker002:] Aha.
[speaker001:] That'll.
[speaker002:] Yeah. Aha. That's fine, aha.
[speaker001:] Okay?
[speaker002:] Right, Doctor, that's fine.
[speaker001:] That's er... but that is where the, the nerve
[speaker002:] Aha.
[speaker001:] from up here,
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] where it splits into all the
[speaker002:] Mhm. Aye.
[speaker001:] wee bits.
[speaker002:] Is that that kind of a swelling you get that swelling?
[speaker001:] Aye, that swelling at the side there.... [whispering] Er this is the fourteenth of the fourth [].... There we are now.
[speaker002:] That's fine Doctor.
[speaker001:] That should get rid of that for you. Now, this will come back.
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] It might come back in six months, in might come back in six years.
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] Nobody can tell you.
[speaker002:] No.
[speaker001:] But it keeps coming back.
[speaker002:] I thought maybe it was a kind of arthritic you know kind of
[speaker001:] No no.
[speaker002:] an arthritis kind of a thing, you know.
[speaker001:] Well it's not. It's not.... Er the other, the other thing
[speaker002:] cos I've a gammy knee as well,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] see when I kneel see when I kneel a lot,
[speaker001:] Let's have a wee look
[speaker002:] I can hardly
[speaker001:] and see what you've done to the poor thing.
[speaker002:] I don't know, there's a young doctor, but I cannae remember what she says, but see when I kneel a lot, Doctor
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[speaker002:] it's awfully hard to straighten them you know?
[speaker001:] Aye. Just let your, let your foot rest on the floor, Anna. Yeah. You can see there's been... a wee bit of damage to that ligament... just where it goes down over the top of that bone.
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] Just in here.
[speaker002:] Aye, well it's just
[speaker001:] Over.
[speaker002:] I mean it's not sore when I'm walking or anything Doctor
[speaker001:] No. No, that's right.
[speaker002:] it's just, she's, I think, I cannae remember what she says, something about nodules on the kneecap or something.
[speaker001:] That's just a wee nodules on your kneecap,.
[speaker002:] Mhm. She says they, she said they wouldn't really do anything with that unless
[speaker001:] No.
[speaker002:] the knee bent and you couldn't straighten it.
[speaker001:] No, leave that alone.
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] Leave that alone. They'll come and go as well,.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] They'll, they'll, they'll not. they won't they won't come to that
[speaker002:] As I say, it doesn't bother me constantly all the time, Doctor you know, it's just I feel I was carrying some shopping down the road
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[speaker002:] you know, keep secret. Oh!
[speaker001:] That's right. That's right y you feel as though you want to rub it all the time.
[speaker002:] Goodness. Terrible isn't it?
[speaker001:] This is old age coming.
[speaker002:] Old age doesn't come itself so they say. Och well.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Och well, that's it.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] If that's all, if that's all we get for getting old, w w we'll do [].
[speaker002:] That's it. Well that's fine, we'll do.
[speaker001:] We'll do. Okay, look after yourself now.
[speaker002:] Right. Thank you.
[speaker001:] Right?
[speaker002:] Cheerie-bye.
[speaker001:] Cheerio now.