@meri91364 If you are in the US, you can contact your state's medical review board if you want to file a complaint. You also should be able to look to see if there has been any disciplinary action against the doctor. I am sorry you are going through this. The only reason I consented to having an epidural is because the surgeon wanted it for diagnostic purposes. He didn't get the results he expected, so he ignored it. The results were pointing to a condition called "funicular pain" which means that compression of the cervical spinal cord is causing some referred pain to other areas of the body. The surgeon (not at Mayo) missed that possibility, and refused to help me. There is no diagnostic test for this, and the only confirmation is that spinal decompression surgery stops the all over crazy pains, and indeed that is what happened when I had spine surgery at Mayo.

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