Information and opinions on health from JPN at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/161763/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/161763/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/161763/index http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/161763/70423/physical Sun, 10 May 2009 11:58:33 -0400 JPN Thanks everyone who responded. I posted this question on 3/26 now 2 1/2 months later (because we did not give up!)We made them do a MRI (even thought they were starting to imply the pain was in his head). It took 7 hours because he needed to be sedated so he would stop moving and the anesthesiologist was tied up. Also they would not give him pain meds during this time because they did not know how to get ahold of the anesthetist to ask... http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/161763/70423/physical http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/161763/64963/life-extreme Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:29:00 -0400 JPN   Today is a very bad day. He is back to not wanting to go on. He goes to therapy she even said call me anytime but he does not wan to talk to her. He has physical therapy but that has made the pain worse. He is on methadone, but even though it goes up it is not working and he does not want more pain pills (he has been on patch, oxy, vicodin etc etc) His will to live is fading and I really am beginign to feel if he goes much furhter no one... http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/161763/64963/life-extreme