Thanks I've always had a problem with doctors thinking I wasn't in pain. I was in a motorcycle accident and told them I heard my bone break and felt it snap. I was sent home with a pulled muscle.
I grew up hiding [pain, besides my dad beating the shit out of me I had a severe problem with my back. When complaining of a back ache my parents ignored it and thought I was trying to skip school. One day I couldn't straighten u[ when I bent to pick something up, my muscle wouldn't respond to anything. Now the believed me and I had extensive surgery on my back, surgery that by todays standard is considered barbaric. Bone graphing all my lumbar together. I've had pain my entire life and I was always, always treated as a drug seeker. I hid my pan in from friends and as I started to get jobs I hid my pain for fear of loosing my job. Finally one doctor sort of believed me and ordered an MRI. He said wow, much worse than I thought, seeing you walk and talk I didn't think you were near the pain you should be. I told him 50 years of compensating. I had a bulging disc and the vertebrae with birth defect was the problem, he sent me to a spine surgeon and there I was told nothing could be done surgically because of the bones graphs. Meanwhile that vertebrae is crumbling, my nerve pain isn't come and go it was constant and got to the point I was screaming at night and nothing help. I moved where thee is no medical Marijuana and when I ran out of the supply I snuck in, medical grade gummies it now became impossible to sleep. I got Medicaid in the state real quick, it was a month out for my appointment and told them at night my pan was unbearable. She gave me something for sleep and that help me sleep but still I was suffering. She sent me to pain management 3 weeks out now I've been suffering severely for 2 months with no relief. I got real close to killing myself, very close but somehow I push through to my appointment. They ordered an MRI and would not act on my pain other than a lighted dose of Lyrica and set my next appointment 8 weeks out. I ended up having 3 er visits, one gave ne a shot and prescribed Vicodin, low dose 12 tablets which I stretch out to 6 days and it gave me a little relief, it took the edge off. After that a week later back in ER treated like a drug seeker I stormed out. I called pain management and ask them to please see me as as possible my suffering was unbearable. I had called after hours and left that message. That morning I got a call and I went in to see them. She had gotten my MRI results and got me in the next day for spinal injection. That has helped a lot but still have a lot of neck pain and muscle spasm in my back. I want to try a spinal stimulator but I don't think my doctor will do it. How can I become eligible?