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Chronic pain in from osteoarthritis & stenosis
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@heisenberg34
Ask your current doctor to authorize MRI’s to image areas of pain. Images will support your pain concerns. If your current doctor won’t approve the MIR’s ask for a referral to a specialist who will. If doctor won’t authorize imaging and/or a referral to specialist perhaps one of his nurses will. If not begin to network using friends, family, etc. in an attempt to help finding different doctors. Even try a local hospital or go to it’s emergency room to get help.
Your current situation is unacceptable. If your have supporting images ask your doctor for imaging cd’s and take them with you. That will put him on notice that you're unhappy but sounds like he won’t care. However, the images are yours and you have the right to have copies. You can also contact your insurance for help. Hope this helps.
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@akaaki Thanks for responding. I have had several MRIs, going back to 2016. Unfortunately, in the words of a chiropractor in early 2023, "You have the back of a forty-five year-old". The only thing MRIs have shown was a compression fracture of the L1. This has long healed since. It seems like my pain is from severe nerve damage cause by a hard ski fall in 2016 on my lower back and buttocks. I remember looking at my back that night and seeing a band of black stretching across my lower back. Not black and blue, solid black. The interesting thing is that I was alsmost back to feeling almost "normal beginning in mid 2018 with meds and a spinal cord stimulator(which died in 2021). I am 90% certain that I will get pain relief from my pain pump if I can get it up to whatever the therapeutic dose turns out to be. Again, I appreciate your getting back to me. Happy New Year!
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@akaaki Thank you so very much for this excellent advice. I will be asking my Doc for a referral as soon as I can get in touch with him.