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Muscular skeletal disorder. How to live with this?

Chronic Pain | Last Active: 1 day ago | Replies (26)

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@sunny65

Thank you for writing to me. I don’t have a good endocrinologist. I was working with PA she prescribed Evenity for osteoporosis ( I had a 5 injections so far) and she left her position. I ended with the doctor who she was working for. She is osteoporosis and fracture specialist but not real endocrinologist she told me to see her in May after I finish my 12 injections of Evenity . I am finding out that not a lot endocrinologists dealing with osteoporosis. They don’t know about medication. I been in debilitating back pain for 7 month now and working with pain specialist. He is not able to help only prescribed Tramadol ( this does not work anymore), I hate it because it gives me bad headaches and he sent me to very young neurosurgeon who told me that my spine has not right posture ( swayback syndrome), cannot do surgery due to very weak bones and sent me to therapy where I was showed a couple exercises, given pictures and sent home. I found a different therapist on my own. He is trying very hard but he is working mainly manually and I afraid to fracture my spine again even he is being very careful and aware about my 4 fractures in my vertebrae. I done MRI , bone scan and CT scans and blood work . Blood work is fine. MRI showed older fractures. Maybe need a new MRI again. I tried to get an appointment with endocrinologist who is dealing with osteoporosis but the wait is one year (!!!) . Not sure if my osteoporosis medication is working for me because my bone density got worse since I started it.Not sure what I am going to do.

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A one-year wait to see a specialist.

Yet, people still crow about how great our healthcare system is.

It's a bad joke.