Jeff, Thank you for taking the time to reply. I am glad to hear that your issue with ACNES has been cured. I hope any remaining issues disappear for you soon. If Dr. Gillespie said he would do the surgery tomorrow I would be there! I cannot imagine living with this level of upper abdominal pain for long much less until December. I made it 24-hours without taking a oxycodone. However the pain has been so intense this morning that I have had to take two 2.5-mg pills to tamp it down. I have had numerous trigger point injections. They help for a short time but the intense pain has always returned. This started slowly in 2014 and has gotten worse over the years. The last 8-months have been brutally hard. Until I saw your referral to Dr. Gillespie I had investigated every option. Jackie said that they received 97-pages of my records. Next Friday cannot come soon enough! Have a fine pain-free day. Thank you! Stuart