Pauline, in her determination to be as self sufficient as she can, very foolishly tried to lift a heavy marble grave ornament I had brought home for its annual cleaning and in doing so has hurt her back. I did phone her doctor and a practice nurse phoned us back and prescribed co-codamol tablets and pain relief gel. Initially the tablets did cause a bad reaction but she is now OK withem but neither they or the gel seem to do anything other than temporary relief.. this has led to her regularly calling for death to intervene and her tempers are just out of control. The problem is I cant imagine there is anything else her GP could do if I went through the challenges of E Consult system.