Sunday, March 21, 2010

Excruciating Pain

By Jane Elliott
Health reporter, BBC News

Marlene Evans
Marlene suffered years of pain

When keen golfer Marlene Evans started to suffer excruciating pain in her hips she feared the worse.

"Even if I turned over slightly in the night, a shooting pain from my hip would wake me," she said.

"The final straw came when I was forced to take up to eight painkillers a day so that I could control the pain and get through a round of golf.

"Although the anti-inflammatory painkillers did take the edge off the pain, I started to feel dizzy and sick as a result. I knew that I had to find another way of dealing with it."


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