Insurance handles things much differently than in 2005 when I had my discectomy. Since 2019 when my back issues flared back up, I've had three rounds of epidural steroid injections and recently a nerve block to see if ablasion will help. I'm tired of getting "Band-Aid" medical care. I feel like I need fusion and I wish I didn't have to go through all this mess.

I'll be 60 this year and at this rate I'm going to be retired before anything is done.

I believe the damage was done to my back while I the Navy; mostly in 1996, while on a drug operation cruise in the Caribbean. I was a marine diesel mechanic before going to college to become a hospital lab technician.