No thanks needed. As for doctors, some are better than others but unless it's something obvious it's a crapshoot. After I had emergency surgery for the spinal infection, cage replacement then sepsis, I had no Idea, at that point,what I was in for. I heal quick, you know. But after the surgury I couldn't bend over without my leg kicking backward. I couldn't get any answers from anyone of them but they were all giving me a lot of pills and I was overwhelmed. None of the doctors communicated with each other. I ended up getting a second opinion. They said I was a very complex case. I had to literally draw pictures for them because I had so many different issues that by the time we would go over all of them, they would forget where we started. Kind of funny. We know the names of some of my issues but for others. I have had every test done that they threw at me at least twice. Expert here and expert there. So many MRIs I lost count. Eventually I had to tell them that I couldn't afford to keep paying for tests that produced no results. Plus if you can't cure it, I don't care what name you call it. But the good thing is that when I find something that might be relative, I send it to him and he will look into it so we can dicuss at my next visit. So don't quit looking. Sorry, I tend to ramble. The way it happened to me, though, overnight. I don't think I accepted it for the first two years. I try to not let it show too much because it is a bummer. I found out who my friends are. Nobody. Oh well, it could always be worse.

After reading this I feel your pain in so many ways.I was diagnosed at 44 that I had arthritis and I shrugged it off thinking alrite.As time went on I was in need of knee replacements (1999) and they woulnt do them because I was to young.Now 21 years later I am the proud recipient of two blown kness, arthritis and and condiction in your spine called dish or Forestiers disease where your spine fuses and causes neuropathy.To this date I cant walk 50' my legs and feet burn, are inflamed and now causing muscle atrophy to the extent that you cannot stand.Neuronton,amytriptaline,lyrica,Gabapenton,norytriptaline, and Cymbalt did nothing for me so the drs ( after all excuses) determined that beer was the culprit.Although I do have several on weekends my aic is better that most and my sugar is well below the levels of cause.All of the drs used up their exsperience and could not make a civil decision and of course they all use a program that 2/3 of drs use call open evidence which is Ai generated.To this day walking is almost at a standstill and my back is rapidly fusing all with nohelp or meds