Oh this guessing game continues

krysy8 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-10-2013, 03:49 AM

Have you not had a MRI or anything yet? ihave had a mri, in Feb. I have not had a CT scan or anything else for some reason.

fuzzy · #2 (**permalink**) 01-10-2013, 05:03 AM

If MRIs were free we would get them much quicker. Unfortunately it is very expensive. Pain is not life treatening. Nacotic pain meds are a big liabillity for the doctors due to the dependency/addiction problem. It look litterally years before my doc started to prescribe them. Now after many years I don't have a problem getting what I need but it took a lot of pain to get there.

Maria · #3 (**permalink**) 01-10-2013, 03:46 PM

I have to say it seemed that way to me for a long time until I had my 2nd spine surgery which failed terribly and then we went with the diagnosis "failed back surgery" which seems to encompass so much. I was not given pain meds either for many years until I started seeing a PM in 2001 and by then I was 48 I think and had stopped working so pain meds were prescribed and made quite a difference in my life. The difference between lying in bed crying all day and being up and about. Then ESIs were added and I felt like I had a new life. Got them for about 10 years. Now WC won't authorize anymore so just taking pain meds. Doing ok tho after many many long years of pretty horrendous chronic pain. Pain is pretty much episodic again with flare ups or lower levels unless I do things that do exaccerbate pain.

housemd89 · #4 (**permalink**) 01-10-2013, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by krysy8

Have you not had a MRI or anything yet? ihave had a mri, in Feb. I have not had a CT scan or anything else for some reason.

Nope nothing at all. Will find out on Wed if I am getting one, as i said i think they got worried when i talked about going private. If they say I don't need one I am still paying for one private because i'm struggling to even stand for 20 minutes now.