So what else is new? Too young for all this misery!

Most of you know me from this Board, and I haven't posted anything in quite awhile due to going back to college, but I am posting something tonight (before I forget to do it!).

My Orthopedic Surgeon in NYC didn't do any back work on me this summer, which I really wanted him to do, since I wasn't in college over the summer. He put me off until now, saying that "July and August are when I take my vacations." Nice for him, but it doesn't solve my problem!

Anyway, he wants to do yet another Facet Joint injection on me, even though I've told him that I've had four of them and they did nothing for me. I don't know when my appointmenet is yet; I have to call tomorrow.

One thing he kept forgetting to check on with me is my Sciatica. Starting this past Monday 10/5, it flared up big time, to the point that I'm not only limping but dragging my left leg. I'm hoping he addressed this issue when I talk to him tomorrow.

I still have some Skelaxin (muscle relaxer) and Ibuprofen that he prescribed for me and have been taking them every night before I go to bed so I can have some relief here! Neither helps the back problem (what I REALLY need is painkillers, but he didn't prescribe them; why? I have no idea).

Now imagine having to go to college with all this pain, plus carrying my books AND staying on Tuesdays from 12:30-7:45. I couldn't sit, stand, walk or do anything but be miserable in both of my Tuesday classes. Monday wasn't too bad, because I'm only on campus for two hours, but Tuesday? I wanted to climb the walls from the pain! Compounding this, my back is also screaming at me, so I have not been a very happy person lately.

A few months ago I wrote very long diatribes about doctors and their so-called "pain management." They can keep their pain management techniques because NONE of it is working for any of us! They also don't seem to LISTEN to us, either, because if they did, they'd find out that all of us are in a tremendous amount of pain and that all of us are miserable! I'm wondering if there's any Orthopedics out there that are NOT in this "pain management" way of thinking. I don't know who dreamed up this "pain management" theory (probably someone who's never had to deal with 24/7 pain), but I think they should abandon this theory and go back to being...A DOCTOR for a change and helping us!

This is an oxymoron: Pain "management." Who in their right mind, on this Board, wants to "manage" their pain? NO ONE!! We all want the pain to be allieviated or addressed or taken away, not go home and "manage" your pain!

I don't want to be "managing" my pain, I want it to STOP! I want to be brought to a better quality of life than where I am now! I want the doctors to LISTEN to me when I tell them that I can't stand it anymore! I want them to be more concerned about my personal well being than their golf game or their next vacation spot or what charity dinner they're going to next weekend! I want them to focus on ME, not their high society plans!

All the "pain management" in the world is not helping any of us and MY theory about them stringing us along so they can get more payments from our insurance companies is proven to be a correct assumption the longer we see them.

Their favorite line is," I'll see you in _________weeks," not, "I'm going to try to find out what I can do to help you so you aren't suffering all the time," or "I'm going to research your problem with my colleagues and see if we can't come up with at least some sort of help for you," or something that shows they CARE about us and our never-ending screaming pain!

Nope, you'll never hear any of that, except for you making yet another appointment! Gotta keep them in the money so they can go on vacation or to the dinner dance that's coming up! Forget about the patients' problem: If they REALLY cared, they'd help us!