You are very lucky that you live only 45 minutes away from Dr. Donahue. Call to schedule ASAP. Someone told me that they couldn't get scheduled until November.

Have you been given any medicines? Perhaps your doctor can give you something in the meantime to help with the pain. My experience is that nerve pain medication, muscle relaxers, and lots of ibuprofen are beneficial, talk with your doctor about these options. I'm on crazy lots of meds...but for the TOS, I take 800 mg of skelaxin twice per day, 10 mg of Flexeril at night, 400 mg of neurotin 3 times per dar, two pills of execedrin in the am along with 400 mg of ibuprofen and Motrin pm with another 400 mg of ibuprofen, I use two heating pads at night, wear a tens machine at night, and have lidocaine patches. Um, well, I obviously probably need surgery, either for the TOS soon, or some new kidneys/liver in a few years.