ADR 5 years on

[Jim M2]

I cancelled the follow-up appointment with the NS after I read her office notes from the first visit.

"...He is here to see if there is any other technology or a newer intervention that could help his current situation, which is a chronic low back pain."

I'm pretty sure I told this doctor up front I didn't want to be screened for surgery. My primary interest was lumbar diagnostics. I wanted to know what was going on. I wanted information to support good decision making for pain management. I wanted to know of any developing trends. I was less interested in cervical. I knew prior I had multi-level cervical DDD.

I ended up with a cervical MRI that says I have DDD. The lumbar was dismissed as inoperable not because it is, or is not, operable but because it's obvious she just didn't feel like messing around with it.