Originally Posted by
Quilty-Louise
Robyn,
I can so relate to pain. I have been suffering with chronic pain since
my second neck surgery in January 2009.
Even FREQUENT visits (sometimes 2-3 per month) to the pain management
Dr does not fully help me. I get injections and they are short term semi-relief
but nothing lasts over 6 months (the longest so far).
Now beginning of the new year we will be on NEW insurance and it will not be
covering 1/10th of what my current insurance covers.
To this current date my insurance (present is Aetna) has paid out OVER $500k
in treatments, diagnosis, surgeries, CTscans, Xrays, MRI's, Drs, hospital, meds,
neck braces, traction units, tens unit and goodness knows I can't remember what
else there is/has been.
YES you read that correctly OVER half a million dollars has been spend on trying
to "fix" my next issues and all the pain. With no complete success at it (so far).
So I truly hope you are able to get the relief you so deserve, NOBODY should
have to live in pain all the time.
Sad as it sounds I am ALMOST getting use to it. But maybe someday that
will change too.
I'm sorry to hear that you are in the same boat as I am. I have had the medial branch and the radio frequency adulation done on my neck. It didn't work at all, just made the pain even worse for 2 months and a hospital bill from loosing the feeling in my right arm and hand for a couple of days. I haven't racked up the bills that you have yet. I can't even imagine. I have had back and neck pain almost all my life and just lived with it for a long time. That is probably part of my problem now. If I had addressed this properly 10 years ago when I really started to become a problem things might be different now. Live and learn.