Once again,
thank you for your advice Jennifer.

You have more empathy and advice than my doctors.

When I first started with these neurosurgery medical group, I only saw the neurosurgeon once on the 24th of November 2022. Then he passed me on to the pain management specialist who arranged for pain management and some injections. Now he want me to do the following:

1) Cervicothoracic medial branch blocks, specific levels as guided by pain mapping under CT guidance.
2)Left C5/6 transforaminal injection to treat bone scan report of increased disc degenerative activity at
C5/6 with less-marked disc degenerative activity at C4/5, as well as severe left C5/6 foraminal stenosis.

The transport accident insurer (TAC) is giving me the run around. I rang them up today to find out how the approval for paying for these procedures and was told there is a 5 week wait!

I can't believe it. How hard can it be to do this approval process?

I asked my pain management doctor to explain how serious is my neck condition and how my discs are inside my neck, he hasn't been able to explain MRIs to me in detail except for some generic details.

All this is making me frustrated in the meantime and increasing my pain.

I can't believe how this screwed this Australian system is! Feels like living in a third world country.

Best regards

Alfred