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Hi @vward1969 I am feeling your pain, because I know what it feels like.
Daily 24/7 excruciating pain, numbness, referred pain etc.
I live in Melbourne Australia and the transport accident insurer called TAC in the state of Victoria will not pay any physio or osteo therapies because they feel that my injuries can't be fixed with traditional therapy. In fact my cervical/thoracic/lumbar injuries can only be fixed with surgery. But in the meantime I have to go through these cortisone injections in order to qualify for surgery.

I would like to avoid surgery by I believe that my C6/C7 and other nerves are under some sort of compression because I get a lot of referred pain, numbness and headaches that I never had before.
Anyway I wish you a Happy New Year despite there is nothing to celebrate for people like use that are always in pain.

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My Dr at Mayo said I could get the specific neck nerves clipped to eliminate the pain. The ct guided center of my neck injection worked. (while I was awake which I almost passed out and will get nerve meds next time at Mayo) I had one previously in Wichita that was not ct guided did not work at all. Eventually I may have to have surgery to support my neck spine that is curving in the wrong direction and it sounds very scary as they go through the front of my neck. I sure wished the stem cell regrowth to repair degeneration was more mainstream. To my knowledge it’s out of pocket. And with crisper ( where they fix the genes at the dna level), the future looks so promising. Probably won’t happen in my lifetime, but they are doing clinical trials now. This would cure our diseases. I am signed up through Mayo for clinical research trials so hopefully I may be one that can try this.