Re: Radio Frequency/Reply to a

[Guest guest]

Hi a,

I was in an accident in 2000, I fell down a conveyor decline,

and busted my shoulder, and jammed my neck. I have seen more doctors,

and specialists than I can count, had every test you can think of,

and a couple more, had painful injections, and physical theropy. The

traction they put my head in a machine, and pulled. That made me

about 10 times worse! I have took pills, and took pills, and had

patches, and did alot of suffering. The main drug that gives me

relief is methadone. I have been on methadone for over 2 years, and

it has given me a new life. The dr. that put me on the methadone

wanted to inplant a spinal cord stimulator, to help with my

headaches, but I didn't like the sound of the trial inplant, and

being awake while they operated on me, to tell them if the thing was

working or not, and all of the follow up, and adjustments, and things

could go wrong, and parts could wear out, or slip, and you would have

to have more surgery. All of this, added to the expense, made me not

so egar to set it up.

The pain dr. dropped me, I could have stayed with him, if I

would have had the implant, but since I wouldn't do it, he dropped

me. There I was, dependant on methadone, and all the pain

specialists, had a 3 month wait...I needed methadone, so I went to

the heroin clinic, and told them I was a heroin junkie, I have never

used heroin, I don't even like to take more pain pills than the dr.

perscribes, but anyway, I got methadone from the drug abuse clinic

for several months, until I got another pain specialist. It is a

shame that a junkie can get help the same day, but a person that has

never broke the law, suffering from terrible pain, must wait for

months, and then chances are will only get vicodin or tylenol 3 or

some crap like neruontin that don't work. The system stinks. The drug

addicts are the reason we can't get oxycontin or other narcotics when

people that are in pain need them, but in order to get the narcotics,

a person has to pretend to be a drug addict.

I have damaged disks in my neck that press on my spinal cord,

and I hurt from head to toe. I have splitting headaches that bring

me to my knees. My hands and feet, and face are numb and tingle all

the time. I have sciatic pain and back/neck pain and muscle spasms. I

have had to stop the soma, and klonapin, and cut back the methadone.

But the methadone is what

helps me function.

[Guest guest]

I have to say your letter has given me thought to doing the same as

you, out of desperation. I don't have a clue as to what I would have

to say other than I had a addiction to herion? Is this expensive and

do you know if they would take insurance for this or is it perhaps

better not to involve insurance so this does not reflect on your

medical history?

I have to whole heartedly agree with you that it is awful that

addicts are given better treatment and more adequate care for their

addiction then those of us with chronic pain. This is especially

cruel since most of us with chronic pain are not able to get proper

treatment because of drug addicts that abuse prescription

medications. What a perverted sense of justice our government is

dealing out.