[speaker001:] Hello.
[speaker002:] Ah,. Sit yourself down Mrs.
[Mary:] Aye.
[speaker002:] Now then, young lady, what can we do for you
[Mary:] Now, it's
[speaker002:] today?
[Mary:] I've had a terrible pain in my arm for maybe six weeks, and right down. Now, the last couple of weeks, this is, er I just thought, och that'll be. And I've had pain right down the bottom of my back, down my leg and right round here.
[speaker002:] Oh dear goodness. The dry rot's set in. The dry rot's set in. The the pain goes.
[Mary:] It's right right down.
[speaker002:] It's right the tips of your fingers?
[Mary:] Aye.
[speaker002:] Aha.
[Mary:] Up here and right down
[speaker002:] Aye.
[Mary:] but this is even worse I could
[speaker002:] Aye.
[Mary:] hardly bend, you know.
[speaker002:] That's right.
[Mary:] And it went right down there
[speaker002:] It goes right, right down the top bit of your leg and comes right round
[Mary:] and then it comes round here and
[speaker002:] the top.
[Mary:] That's right.
[speaker002:] Aye.
[Mary:] Aye.
[speaker002:] Now then, just tw okay now, just keep, stand here and tell me when I come to the good bit. Now then, see that wee?
[Mary:] Aye, that's
[speaker002:] That's a good bit is it? What about that? [LAUGHTER]
[Mary:] the last [LAUGHTER] that's. That's sore [].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Oh, []. And that one as well.
[Mary:] Aha.
[speaker002:] Now then, let's, let's...
[Mary:] Aye. I felt it then.
[speaker002:] Just in there.
[Mary:] Aha.
[speaker002:] in, in through that bit? Not so bad? We'll so soothes that soothes
[Mary:] right down.
[speaker002:] soothes you right.
[Mary:] Aha.
[speaker002:] I'm not gonna poke about, right?
[Mary:] Aha.
[speaker002:] I know what's happened.
[Mary:] Oh well, that's good.
[speaker002:] This, this, this a neuralgia you've got.
[Mary:] Is that what it is?
[speaker002:] That's what it is.
[Mary:] Aha.
[speaker002:] That's what it is. This, this coming down here, that's the big nerve
[Mary:] Right.
[speaker002:] at the bottom of the back
[Mary:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] and down into the top of the leg.
[Mary:] Aha.
[speaker002:] And a wee bit.
[Mary:] And why it comes round here. And I thought, oh, I wonder what this is?
[speaker002:] It's the same with this one here. It comes right down your arm, right down to the tips of your fingers.
[Mary:] That's right. Aye. Cos I thought, och,
[speaker002:] [whispering] [].
[Mary:] I think it's about time I'm calling because
[speaker002:] Yeah. Och. get.
[Mary:] Cos it was really quite bad
[speaker002:] Quite.
[Mary:] and I don't usually
[speaker002:] Yes, oh it's, it's a
[Mary:] you know with
[speaker002:] it's a very severe pain. It's like a toothache.
[Mary:] So it is and it goes.
[speaker002:] It's right inside the nerve.
[Mary:] Isn't that?
[speaker002:] That's wh that's why it's so sore.
[Mary:] Oh.
[speaker002:] And it doesn't matter what you do, it doesn't matter how you
[Mary:] Aye or anything,
[speaker002:] Powers up, powers down, bed. D doesn't matter.
[Mary:] And we were, and I was beginning to wonder is it something to do, you know how it tells you, maybe if you swallow there's?
[speaker002:] No.
[Mary:] You know how it? And I thought now
[speaker002:] No. No. No. No. No. It
[Mary:] I'd better go and see, you know, because I
[speaker002:] No. No. No. It it's
[Mary:] take my every day.
[speaker002:] Yes. Aye. No it's er... that's er that is, it's actually quite a common thing.
[Mary:] Is it?
[speaker002:] Aye.
[Mary:] Right.
[speaker002:] I mean it's painful, I mean it's not that this
[Mary:] Oh aye, it is painful but I thought it's not going away so I'd better go and see about it.
[speaker002:] That's right. You're bet you're better knowing what it is.
[Mary:] Aye, because I've, I've gone on for weeks with it, you
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[Mary:] know?
[speaker002:] Mhm. Right. Now....
[Mary:] [LAUGHTER] This whole thing []. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] No.
[Mary:] Well, I keep saying it's a muscle, but I thought I'd
[speaker002:] No. No. No. M
[Mary:] better
[speaker002:] You get folk in their, in their thirties and forties with this
[Mary:] With the same thing?
[speaker002:] Aye. It's, it just er I'm not sure what happens, I, I think what happens is that the, the circulation into the nerve
[Mary:] Aha.
[speaker002:] gets blocked somehow.
[Mary:] Oh. Aha.
[speaker002:] And you're not getting the proper circulation down through
[Mary:] So.
[speaker002:] the nerve, so it's sending the wrong messages back up.
[Mary:] [whispering] I didn't know that []. Aye.
[speaker002:] And you, you're getting this
[Mary:] And you're getting the pain.
[speaker002:] And it feels absolutely terrible, especially in the cold mornings.
[Mary:] That's right.
[speaker002:] If you go outside in the cold mornings
[Mary:] Aha.
[speaker002:] and it feels all as if it's numb?
[Mary:] It does. Aye.
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[Mary:] And it, it's just right up my shoulder here.
[speaker002:] Just here.
[Mary:] That's
[speaker002:] And
[Mary:] right.
[speaker002:] and there and right down
[Mary:] And right down to my fingers.
[speaker002:] right down.
[Mary:] Mhm.
[speaker002:] With one, one man said I used to put, in the cold mornings I used to put my other hand at the bottom to see if I could get heat, but he couldn't touch his fingers because they were so tender.
[Mary:] Aye this was frozen to me,
[speaker002:] That's right.
[Mary:] this hand, you know?
[speaker002:] And he just wanted to get the heat in so he kept his other hand round about it.
[Mary:] I couldn't,
[speaker002:] So it's I mean it's not, it's not just yourself. But it is
[Mary:] Aha.
[speaker002:] a painful thing.
[Mary:] Oh, it is painful right enough.
[speaker002:] Now I've given you some good tablets for this
[Mary:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] to help to unblock the circulation and to kill the pain.
[Mary:] Aha.
[speaker002:] Now they are, because there're two things in them, they're quite strong. Never take them on an empty stomach.
[Mary:] No, even with my breakfast.
[speaker002:] Mm. Cup of tea, with
[Mary:] Yes.
[speaker002:] a bit of toast.
[Mary:] Yes. Aye.
[speaker002:] With a biscuit.
[Mary:] I'm the same
[speaker002:] Right.
[Mary:] with that other one too.
[speaker002:] Right?
[Mary:] You know how it
[speaker002:] That's.
[Mary:] says on it
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Mary:] you know, to take?
[speaker002:] Not to take
[Mary:] but I never take it
[speaker002:] Aye.
[Mary:] before my breakfast
[speaker002:] Well then, you get started on that
[Mary:] or with water.
[speaker002:] and that'll do you the world of good.
[Mary:] [LAUGHTER] Right then. Thanks
[speaker002:] Okay?
[Mary:] very much Doctor [].
[speaker002:] Right Mary?
[Mary:] Thank you.
[speaker002:] Right. Cheerio now.
[Mary:] . Cheerio.