Excellent advice all, thank you. I spoke to an advice nurse by phone today, told her it had been about 11 days since the flareup and that it seemed to be getting worse, not better. We had a good talk, I mentioned how the Google had told me that resting it doesn’t usually help, that staying active is better. She told me that Dr. Google is not always your best friend. Based on what I told her she thought there was a chance I was causing damage. She urged me to pay a trip to the ER.

I found several articles that said the best time to go to an ER is 3 AM to 9 AM, that late afternoon early evening on Monday was the worst. I’m going to get there before 7 AM tomorrow.

I would certainly like to avoid surgery, but if expert opinion has it that I should do it, it would certainly be something to consider very strongly.

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