For those of you that are unsure of how to define irony - i will let you know about my doctors visit today just to let you know.

Obviously, with being on this board i suffer from Narcolepsy, because of my unwillingness to take too many drugs (can you ever have TOO many?) i drink a lot of coffee - i do so because i need to keep awake obviously and it is freely available.

About 2 weeks ago i started getting bad pain in my kidney and bowel area, since i was diagnosed with Narcolepsy i have been afraid to go to the doctors - i am scared that something else bad will happen. The pain finally got so bad last night that i couldn't walk home from work.

I went to the doctors today, she said that the pain is likely to be spasms that are caused by the excessive amount of caffeine that i need to drink, i have to come off the caffeine and take some anti-spasm pills to relieve the pain. She can't give me any pain killers because the only ones that work would knowing my luck give me stomach ulcers.

So the only thing that keeps me awake is giving me pain, so i agree to stop it, but because then i would have no stimulants i asked for some kind of replacement. The answer i recieved was that because the fatigue was at the moment going to be caused by my cold turkey from caffeine and not directly from the narcolepsy she could not give me anything!

So:

- Serious pain

- No coffee or tea

- No pain killers

- No stimulants

- More tablets

- More tests

All in all a good day!

Sam