That sounds weird that they wouldn't pick up your case; likely though because of of the "Birmingham Papers." Good to know. If my hip ends up replacing; I won't allow them to use either.

Sorry-I don't know what to say: rotten luck seems to fall so grossly short of what this has done to you. Other than maing sure you hae a good Pain Medicine clinic on your side, I guess I don't have any "sage advice," but hang in there, know you aren't alone.

It's funny how a doctor's opinion is forever changing. Mine isn't: I hate them in general. At this point, the doctor is going to have to work dang hard to earn my trust, let alone any faith I have in them.

I trust my orthopedist, but yesterday I fired my PCP and my PMR doctor (my psychiatrist is going to resume prescribing) so no matter that the jerk is now out of my life, as with the PCP. Guess how well I slept last night and relaxed I am today? I don't feel the level of stress and anxiety I have for the last few months. The clinics I use have one with PCP's O cam go to; they can assign me to whomever--I don't care since I do't plan on them sucking the life out of me, so I won't be going uless my temperature is 104....lol, but with all the stress, it's not been worth it. Sad, but unfortunately true.

Now I can relax this weekend!!!

I'll have my surgery on the 15th and do the rehab, etc, and only the post op visits required of me. But otherwise, I am done with doctors-except if I need an antibiotic: but even there, my dentist gave me a bottle of 100 capsules of amoxicillin that's good until Dec 2013. So even then-I probably can stave it off for a while. As an RN; I know: complete 10-14 days, take them four times a day, don't miss a dose, and make sure it's not the flu: and I know the difference between when it's a cold, and when it's greenish/brown garbage I cough up, and clear, uninfected, viral stuff. So it's gonna be a long time before I go again.

Sad, huh? Good for me, sad for them!!!