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Originally Posted by Leed
Hey Jax -- Won't ANYONE do a REVISION?? Won't anyone help you since something obviously is wrong??? It seems to me that if your pain is THAT much worse, SOMEONE would help you, especially now!
Have you tried a teaching hospital? Many times they will help, especially after this many years and if something is definitely wrong! Is there a teaching hospital anywhere near you? If there is, I'd try them and see what they say. Living in this much pain is terrible, and I'd sure want to know WHY doctors are so willing to let a patient suffer THIS much. I know they've thrown the Hippocratic Oath out the window long ago, but still -- what about compassion? Have they thrown that out too? Must be. 
When is the last time you tried to get a doctor to take a look? Hugs, Lee
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Sorry, haven't checked this forum in a bit. so i missed your responce.
so! umm... no, no one will touch me. because of a prior failed surgery. because of the fusion, itself. I was told by the last doctor I went to see about surgery, that there is no surgical solution. the fusion is good. it's solid bone.
I live in New England. There are lots of big medschools well within easy travel distance. I have tried.
I did find one doc who wanted to go to work on me. his big plan was to fuse more levels, and replace the existing hardware with larger more invasive hardware. stuff that would come very very close to my S. cord.
I can still walk. I'd like to continue. that guys been all over the news for big big mistakes during his surgeries.
honestly, there are plenty of Docs who'll leave a patient in pain. and plenty who will call you faker, and drug seeker, too.
even when tests prove the pain is real, and couldn't be faked this well.
plenty of docs will turn you down flat because they see you as a law suit, not a patient.
though i admit, it is not easy or even possible sometimes to fix someone elses work. there's no money in compassion I'm afraid.
I can't even get mad about it anymore.
i don't like doctors as a rule. Mostly beacuse I've seen so many. But I do have issues. And the pain has made the pych issues a problem.
/sigh
oh, yeah the last doc i saw was another pain specialist three weeks ago.
you know, i don't expect miracles. really.
jax