It’s not unusual to start experiencing aches and pains as we get older. For most, this is easy enough to remedy by picking up good habits such as doing yoga, increasing weight-bearing exercise and keeping our estrogen levels topped up with HRT. For some women, however, chronic pain requires more serious intervention. And with precious few truly effective treatments for chronic pain, our second half of life can be a time when we find ourselves being prescribed all kinds of pharmaceutical drugs.
This was the case for Julie Durran, whose
