Reader's Corner
* Follow your doctor’s instructions. Eat a light meal, such as soup or salad, the night before the procedure. Don’t eat or drink anything after midnight or in the morning before the procedure - this means no coffee, tea or water.
Mr W.G., a 28-year-old chef with a penchant for pickled chillies, came to see me complaining of an intermittent dull ache in his lower back and coccyx (tail bone). The pain, which had begun three years ago, seemed to extend up inside him, in front...