Anyone know of a treatment for spinal stenosis?
Being told no surgery available, phys therapy only helps a little. Epidurals are useless. Seeing pain mgmt doc but starting to think he doesn't get the concept of "pain mgmt" because he isn't very helpful. Problems with prescriptions. Have seen others in area, but don't want insurance to start sending notices saying I'm doctor-hopping for drugs. Already happened with my family dr, but insurance failed to check (of course) what each doc was for, and the two others were surgeons for an entirely different problem.
Thanks for your reply.
Turned out that I have side effects from the anti-inflammatories we've tried. I also tried acupuncture. It didn't help with the pain, but it sure made me feel relaxed! That was nice all by itself
I saw my dr this past Monday to try pinning him down about the stimulator. He had originally told me he'd have an answer and a general plan around 2-3 weeks after the first appointment. It's now a month and a half, so I finally went in because I was tired of phone calls.
He said they did finally figure out how to work it out. Before any medical parts, the insurance company says I have to have a psych eval. Do you happen to know if this is normal? Or why they would need this? Even the doctor wasn't real sure about it.
That can't be done until early to mid August. After the insurance approves the results, we'd do the test to see if it helps at all, and then the actual procedure. Going by this time frame, I'm looking at the end of October.
He did raise my med dosage though, which helps in the meantime.
So, any ideas about this psych eval?
Thanks!