Oh bless you tvman. Perhaps you could ask your doctor to review it? The first one I tried (Amitriptyline) did nothing at all for me when I had mind bendingly awful back pain a decade ago. Then I changed to Duloxetine and it worked a treat, (both are antidepressants) that and paracetamol together made me much more comfortable. I'm not suggesting drugs for you of course just offering the idea that a different one could work better? I've also had good nerve pain relief from Pregabalin. But I am sorry you have this pain because it really really sucks.
I'm in the process of giving my business away to my 2 employees. One became my business partner last year when I nearly died, to safeguard the business ' ability to continue trading if my affairs got locked pending probate. Now she will run it in her own right in informal partnership with the other one. I'm ok with this now and glad the business will continue to have life and give them livelihoods. They deserve it more than anyone, they have kept it going this year and it would have folded otherwise. I should by now be just nudging it into proper profit, having lived on a meagre living for several years (I had a few failed starters and then the pandemic added to its costs massively but I kept my people in jobs and I'm proud of that). I'm ok with letting it go now but I struggled a lot a few weeks ago. I think creating a business comes with emotional ties few can understand who haven't done it themselves. And owning a business as a sole trader and becoming gravely ill is a responsibility which no one should envy. My own experience when I approached the cancer charities for help was...let's just say that their expertise in the field had opportunity for further development. Benefits advice for the employed, no problem. Help to work out how to protect the business (and my house, my partner's home)...met with assurances of help that came to nothing, signposting that went nowhere, and basically blank looks. If others have had better experiences then I'd be interested to hear. But iny case I felt like I had to sort it out myself. My hospital inmates must have wondered what planet I was on making business calls from my bed, speaking to lawyers, accountants, staff etc. All on the rebound from paclitaxel after the hallucinatory spiders had stopped running about on the curtains.
Sarah, I worked as a manager for a financial and supply company, I have dealt with thousands of self employed, but have never considered their problems with running their business, you have taught me something
