Unless You Live with It, You Cannot Understand How Chronic Pain Strips Away Your Normal Life ; It Is Estimated That One in Five People in Wales Live with Chronic Pain and yet Nhs Pain Management Services Are Scattered and Fragmented. As Wales' First Pain Strategy Is Launched This Week, Health Editor Madeleine Brindley Met a Mother and Daughter Desperate for More Support

Western Mail › June 16, 2008

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PAIN is a constant in Pamela Dungey's life - not a day goes by when she doesn't experience the full impact of a rare back condition, which has dominated most of her adult life.

But the 44-year-old is a selfconfessed fighter. She fights to control her own pain and is battling to prevent her 16-year-old daughter Laura Clode from facing the same future.

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Unless You Live with It, You Cannot Understand How Chronic Pain Strips Away Your Normal Life ; It Is Estimated That One in Five People in Wales Live with Chronic Pain and yet Nhs Pain Management Services Are Scattered and Fragmented. As Wales' First Pain Strategy Is Launched This Week, Health Editor Madeleine Brindley Met a Mother and Daughter Desperate for More Support

The mother and daughter both have Scheuermann's disease, which is a degenerative condition affecting the spine. Pamela experiences frequent prolapsed and herniated discs, which trap the sciatic nerve. It is the same disease from which Britain's Got Talent winner George Sampson suffers.

In the past few years GCSE student Laura has been experiencing increasing symptoms of the disease - she suffers regular "minor", but painful, attacks more protracted episodes of pain, requiring long periods of home rest.

To date, the only help the NHS has been able to offer the Howell's student, who hopes to become a speech and language therapis...

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