I hope that everyone is hanging in there!

Thanks for your concern Betty. The surgeon that I saw suggests that I go see a team of doctors at Kirkland Clinic so here we go starting back at ground zero. Sometimes I wonder if I should have ever left my 1st Neuro. I called him to see if he would take me back as a patient and his nurse said no. Iwas so distraught. He had been my doctor for 3 years but his practice had become too large to get the kind of turnaround care that I needed. I do understand that I am not the only patient but there would be times that I would call and I would not hear back from them for a week or so. I hope that you are doing OK. Happy Holidays. Love Lori

Lori

I'm glad that you've come around again.

I'm really sorry about your nero-surgeon not excepting you back.  I also hope that everything turns out well and the Kirkland Clinic.

About a year 1/2 ago, I had considered changing PC physicians, as I felt mine was just too slow to act on my pain and on the severity of it at times.  I talked to a counselor at my pain clinic and asked if they could recomend another PC in our medical provider's groups, she came up with a few more names, and after I thought about having to start all over with a new doc, it just did not seem like such a great idea.  My PC was just taking my medications very slowly and I was and had struggled for a long time with undertreated pain that I was nearly to a point of it pushing me over the edge.  Looking back, I'm very thankful that I decided to stay put, as things have improved a great deal with working with both my Pain doc and my PCare, they do a good job of both deciding together what course of treatment would be best for me and everything has finally worked it's way out.

I still get frustrated once in a while and yes, I've had weeks where I've been in rediculesly high pain levels and not gotten a call back for several days.  It's very frustrating, but when I talked to my doctor about it, he gave me his e-mail and apparently he had not been getting the messages to call me until the day it was handed to him, so somthing was lacking in their system, instead of my doctor ignoring me.  He answers every e-mail I get within 24 hours and that has made my life much simplier.

I certainly hope you get everything worked out with your new doctor.  Although, I don't understand why your past nero would not take you back as a patient?? Did you part on bad terms or was his professional feelings hurt?

Take care & hoping for a low pain holiday season for all

Betty