Pain Clinic

[qrdgv2tebc]

Hi

I had an appointment at the pain clinic yesterday,spent about two hours with the pain doctor, he went over all my MRI's goingh back to 2000, but the first thing he said was that the wrist and leg and back braces were the wrong braces for me, i told him that they were issued by the va. he said i should be measured for special brases for my conditions, he also did an exam for about twenty minutes.asked about how long i was having pain , gave him a pain #, had another pain doctor come in and look me over, like getting a second opinion.

He gave me a diagnoses of Chronic neouropatic pain syndrome or chronic pain syndrome due to the fact that i had cervical and lumbar radiculopathy, spinal stenosis, cervicogenic headaches, CTS all chronic to include chronic arthritis of all joints.

he recommented to the Va to be put on D-Trans patches and added a medication called LYRICA. he also recommeded that i be sent to a sleep center to check out my sleep patterens i told the pain doctor that have interupted sleep that i sleep about four hour a night and that's with sleep medication..

The VA PSY doctor had diagnosed me with chronic depression due to chronc pain, she told me to put in claim for the depression.

Should i wait for the results from the sleep center[if the va ever approves for me to be tested] or should i just go ahead with the claim?

My neuro doctor diganosed me with Occipital neuralgia secondary to chronic cervical spondylosis.

would appreaceiate and input.

Edited March 27, 2008 by qrdgv2tebc

[Pete53]

My opinion is the only time you wait is when everything has been done.