Why would a doctor question me whether I have a pain somewhere or not - especially if I have total health coverage and he is getting his money? I was having bad back pain, my orthopeadic surgeon and my general doctor more or less questioned it was as bad as I was telling them. For 4 years, I was given physical thearpy (which made it absolutely worse - and I told them so), I was given celebrex (which worked for a couple of months), I was given Mobic (which didn't work to well at all). I was in agony - serious agony, and eventually was told there was nothing to be done. I finally got in touch with a pain specialist who gave me a series of epidural injections. This is the first time I've had no pain in 4 years. Why wasn't I given this option to begin with? The first 2 doctors are not idiots - they are tops in the field - but I always felt they thought I was lying. Even if I was - why would they care?
2007-04-27
15:04:01
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