Nerve Blocks, Zanaflex & Dawn

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Hi Everyone,

Sorry I haven't posted in forever but I've been so busy with lawyers, my new pain management doctor (who is wonderful!) and the main thing of trying to find an anesthesiologist who takes Medicaid to do the sympathetic nerve blocks that Dr Perri ordered for me...Albany Medical doesn't take it and I know damn well they did just last year..I can't get a straight answer from Helen Hospital on whether or not they take it, there is a place in Poughkeepsie who takes it but only if it's secondary insurance which mine isn't so they won't take me, and Orange Anesthesia in Middletown isn't taking new patients and I have no idea how much those blocks cost? Dr Perri also put me on Zanaflex 3X a day and I'll tell you something, talk about super b**ch on wheels from hell!!!!!!! OMG, I had no idea what was wrong with me!! I would actually be getting in peoples faces because they'd piss me off about the stupidest things! I told my pharmacist about it and he told me that was a bad side effect and to call Dr Perri about it so I actually went there to leave him a note about it cause my next appt with him isn't until the 10th of this month and he called me in and told me to STOP NOW! So I tossed out the bottle and I guess he's going to wait until I see him on the 10th before he gives me something else for pain so whatever Zanaflex is in my system will be out by then...I did have a triple phase bone scan that Dr Perri ordered and that went over like a lead balloon..they couldn't find a vein first off, then when they finally did and got the catheter in, blood started spurting out, I of course had to look and see what they were saying "ah hell" about and when I saw that, I hit the floor and woke up in a bed..I can't handle seeing my own blood...anyone else's I'm fine with, just not my own..Oh and Dawn, do you know off hand if your Dr over there in Poughkeepsie does nerve blocks and if he does, does he take Medicaid? I keep misplacing his info and phone number that you gave me and that too is driving me nuts, constantly losing things..I can deal with losing my mind cause it's been gone for so long I hardly miss it anymore Well I hope everyone is having a low pain day and know that you're all in my thoughts...

Gentle Hugs,

~Chrissy~