In a few months I am going to have insurance again and I am going to have a new pain in my upper back looked at and get an MRi when I can. My current back problem, herniated disc in the L5-S1 Lower Lumbar cannot be looked at for one full year, pre-existing.

The Dr I was going to kept telling me it was not a serious injury and I should not be in such pain. The replacement pain Management Dr I had before I lost my insurance told me he does not like to treat these things with "narcotic pain relivers", that they do not help. The regular Doc I was seeing said these things are addictive and I wil not prescribe them. When i got fed up with him for not helping wth anything, the other Doc told me he would give me cortizone shots in the office and work with that. He does not prescribe any "narcotic pain relievers".

Staying with my lower back here because, I don't know what's wrong with my upper back, I am in pain everydy and use the online OP's. it almost feels like either the herniation is either gotten worse or something is wrong because it REALLY kills me. My original pain management Doc was great before he moved. He understood and was very helpful. The replacement Doc like i said before Didn;t believe in giving "narcotic" pain medication. He would give me 40 5mg Norco and never stray from that. I told him that was taking 10mg, he said that was too much. i told him I have built up a tolerance that my last pain management Doc said he wanted to see if my tolerance did go up he would try Dilaudid or was more inclinded to try 20mg oxycontin. Well, he looked at me like I was nuts and said Oxycontin is overkill for my condition. I was like flabbergasted. it's about my tolerance not overkilling it.

I just cannot understand why the Dr's I had and the one pain management Dr I had kept saying I should not be in pain everyday and these things usually can give you pain one day then stop for 1 year? Are they nuts? I feel at times like my spinal cord is ready to split in half.

I just wish for once I could find a compasionate Dr in my area, which is NJ, and a Pain Management Dr that does not talk nonsense. I feel like when i get insuance I am doomed to suffer again...