I felt that way too - “here, give us a urine specimen”. It cost $945.00, I had to pay over $500! I was not on Medicare at the time and had not met my deductible. Wow. They didn’t even tell me they were doing this complete drug scan. At least then I could have chosen to walk out then

I went back and they gave me 100 mg Gabapentin 3xs daily, said I needed 3 nerve blocks in my right side cervical spine and back.

I kept doing PT and the neck pain went away after a year.

Now I have neck pain on the left side so headed to a different doctor next week.

Don’t really want to do injections, but I can’t drive very far and the constant pain is a real pain in the neck. Now I have headaches and head pain daily. Got off Gabapentin, taking anti-inflammatory (Celebrex generic) Tylenol and an occasional muscle relaxer which helps.

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