New Member

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Hello All:

I am new to this group and just wanted to introduce myself. My name is

and I live in Las Vegas. I have been living with chronic back and neck pain for

20 years and I am 36 years old. I have 3 children of my own and 3 inherited

children.

I have been struggling more lately with my pain and am now finding myself

depressed more than usual so I thought that joining the group would be a

positive thing. Its just awful that all of you are going through this also but,

its very nice to know that I'm not on my own.

I have the typical problems with Doctors. They put me on heavy duty narcotics

then act like I have a problem with them. My insurance carrier doesn't want to

pay for any aggressive measures to try to relieve my pain, so I have to learn to

live with this.

I am married and my husband recently had a 4 level lumbar fusion with a disc

replacement. It took 3 years for the insurance company to decide that this was

necessary even though 3 surgeons told them over the

last 2 years that it was not an elective thing. He absolutely would be

paralyzed without the surgery.

Anyway, I'm sure that I have been through the same as everyone else and like I

said earlier, thank you for listening and welcoming me to the group.