What people like us have been through no one should have to go endure. My medication was once changed by a pain clinic from oxycodone to fentanyl patches. They gave me a saliva test the next month, instead of a urine test. I could see that something was going on, because the lady that gave the test acted abnormally happy. I had already seen enough out of this place that I knew this wasn't a good sign, but I always used the patches correctly and never took anything I wasn't supposed too. They waited almost a month to call and say the test showed no fentanyl. I think the entire situation happened because I had received a ganglion impar injection and it caused worse pain. I don't know if they thought I was trying to attempt legal action, which was ridiculous, but they had already made it clear that they did not like me coming there because I had so many problems, however, my diagnosis from this doctor was chronic back pain, if you can believe. I suppose after the injection they decided they would find a way to get rid of me. I was barely able to get around and when I first went there the surgeon would not operate on me for moderate to severe stenosis, because of my "previous surgeries". He sent me to the interventional pain mgmt. doctor at the facility, who ordered a CT myelogram that showed nerve root clumping. The radiologist didn't call it CES or AA and no one else had told me I had these conditions, so I didn't know what the myelogram meant. I didn't find out either, until last year, when I read it in my records from a neurosurgeon. Seven years is a long time to cave CES and AA and doctors all keep it hidden from you. After the drug test, three pharmacists said urine tests showed fentanyl much better than saliva tests, but that was all they would say. Fortunately my PCP referred me to another place. I didn't care for the new pain doctor because he was trying to put in a spinal cord stimulator. I didn't think this would help because my first pain doctor, that I trusted before he retired, said I had clumped nerve roots and I should get a pain pump. I went to another place six months later and I eventually told this doctor about the saliva test, because he is the only doctor that ever increased my medication in an effort to help me, and he treats patients more fairly than anywhere else I have been. He asked what strength the patch was. I told him it was a 50 mcg patch and he said he didn't think a saliva test would detect this small dose of a patch. I was glad to get that off my chest because it hurt me so deeply that the other place had done this to me when I have never abused my medications, and for them to try to make it look like I wasn't using, or maybe selling, the patches was very sh****!! Now that I am so much worse I am over it all too. I love my family very much, and they are the only reason I have been able to make it this long, but I wish so much that my life on earth would be over so that I would not have to live with terrible pain and suffering that will only get worse. I fear that I have a lot more suffering to endure, unfortunately, as I am not yet 60.

@ @christinasuit My paperwork ALL said arachnoiditis and the disability judge said he didn't believe that is what my problem was. Dr ForestTennant will help read MRI so you can show the findings to your GP which should helpifyou do have arach