Neck and thoracic pain

[jsewell]

I am glad your new mattress helped so much. Sorry about all the other problems. I feel like that type of thing happened to me in my 40's , every time something was checked for one reason or another new conditions were brought up . I don't know if i ever told you i have panhypopituitarism. I am currently replacing all the pituitary hormones and since it is the master gland some from other glands as well. My thyroid was the first thing discovered. I am hypo and what a difference i noticed when first treated for it
I hope you feel so much better with treatment for your new problems.
I also see a retinal specialist as i have had now 2 retinal hemmorhages , both on the macula on each eye. They did both clear up on their own but i still go for regular check ups on my retina's.

I don't want to steal your thread, but i decided to go with the anterior approach with my usual spinal surgeon. It is much less brutal than the one the new surgeon was suggesting and if it does not work to straighten me out i have not closed any doors. I am kind of worried about the anterior approach as i am used to the posterior. People have said it is hard on the stomach/abdomen at first . Then after that they can't tell the difference. My surgery is 3 weeks from today on sept 9th.
good luck with all your new treatments
judy

[Maria]

Judy,
So what is the surgery again that your regular surgeon is going to do? Anterior xyz... I can't remember.. sorry. Is he going to take out the old hardware? Or is this anterior reinforcement and ?

Sorry I've just been so inundated with my own stuff that I think I had to make space in my head by pushing out what other people said is going on with them!

I got a call today from the doc's office and I may not have the more aggressive lab work up done if they can't tell me how Cigna will pay and how much I might be stuck with. What I was told today was that they'd bill my primary insurance and medicare but I was to include my credit card number with the insurances so that could be billed the rest of what they don't pay.

HUH??? I told the doctor's office I never give my credit card number out to billed ? amount of $. That's ridiculous (at least to me)! I need to know in advance how much isn't going to be covered or at least ballpark figure.

They tried to tell me that I would be stuck with more than $150 from the Medicare part as though that was my primary insurance. I had to remind them about Cigna being my primary and Medicare my secondary. So will see what else I get done at this office. Maybe nothing. I thought we were getting somewhere finally with some good answers but like you said usually it's just more stuff popping up.. ugh!