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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Georgia
Posts: 905
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Georgia
Posts: 905
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Went to 2nd pain mgmt specialist today and....
Hey Ouchiefeet........confirmed small fiber neuropathy (skin punch biopsy) and heart ablation......and now they say all that is left for me is pain mgmt. due to my biopsy results.
So sorry to hear about your heart ablation....they were able to burn 11 places in my heart and left 1 because they didn't like where it was as far as burning it.
I also had burning feet for a few years but never paid much attn. to it....I am diabetic but my symptoms came on strong a month after my chemo ended (taxol/carbo) for a uterine cancer called Serous.
I have learned much from this site and was my own advocate. The dr's have been nice but not extremely helpful. I went to see my first pain mgmt. dr and really liked him but the office area was dirty. He said since 1800 mg of gabapentin a day was not working and the nerves in my feet are actually dead my only option was to get insurance to pay for a neurostimulator. He said I would have to have a sympathic nerve block first before my insurance would agree to a stimulator. Well....I thought about it a few days and decided I did not want to go back to that place even though I really liked the dr. So I decided to try another local pain mgmt. dr.
I had the appoint this morning at 10:30 and this is how it went...filled out loads of paperwork, didn't see the dr but his assistant who only read through what I wrote on the papers but had not studied my file on the computer (linked to Emory's computer in Atl) and then told me to go back to the waiting room and they would let me know what they wanted to do. The receptionist called me to her desk and handed me an appoint card for next Tues.....I asked what the appoint would be for and she said an injection. I said what kind of injection.....she said in the back or feet. I told her I would really like to meet and talk with the dr before he started injecting me with anything and she said she would talk to him and call me back on Friday to discuss....I'm like WTH ?
So needless to say I have quite a lot to think about. I have no experience with neuropathy or pain dr's. This sh-- is crazy !
My husband said I really need to think about going back to the first dr that surely they have a sterile room where he would do my nerve block. That dr really seemed to know his stuff and spent a long time with me and my husband discussing this issue.
I'm 51 and very much like you.....SCARED to death for someone to stick a needle in my back.
Guess I was not very much help and I hope you find the info you are looking for from these good people on this site. Please keep us updated.
Debi from Georgia
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