Hi everyone for your support. I seemed to have started off with complaints but who are you to go to. Most of my family are non-supportive since they don't understand about chronic pain and that sometimes you do what you have to do to survive.

Silverlady and David the reason was not given why he "fired me" as his patient. I assume he got insulted when I wanted another doctor's service and not his. Several little incidents happened in the office to the effect that did not trust him anymore. On my disability claim it showed I had consistently normal reflexes of my arms and legs and have been examined by other doctors and they consistently found that my reflexes of legs and arms and ankles were either barely there or absent. I questioned him about that as he did only one reflex test on me when I was a new patient and no more but he had posted in my chart with each visit normal reflexes when he didn't even do reflex tests on me. The day I questioned this he did test my reflexes and left bruises on me where he was so rough. On the EMG's he jammed the needles painfully in my legs. I began to think the man was mad at me for questioning his authority or he is a sadist. Also when I would go for visits he would avoid me or if I spoke to him he was very sarcastic and unfriendly to me. As far as the letter incident I think he got angry with me due to the fact that questioned his authority the fact he was falsifying records saying I had normal reflexes when he didn't even do that test on me. He didn't think that I would get wind of the fact that he'd never done thoses tests on me. It is my word against his though in a "doctor's are God's situation". Even the legal systems seem to side with the big Almighty doctors. Not that all doctors are like this but I sure got the doozy of the bunch. Once I was off the patches I would have loved to have stayed drug free but I was in so much pain and we're going on a vacation starting Fri. so I gave in but that doesn't me that I won't try other alternative treatments eventually. I'm not to sure about this new doc but he is going to do an MRI of my spine. I have degenerative disc disease from neck to tailbone. I mentioned to the previous doctor abou this and suggested maybe he should do an MRI of my spine to rule out problems there but he never did that. I do respect the new doctor for trying to get to the root of the problem.


Thanks all for your kind words. (Nida, Hurty, Dahlek, Jarrette) Many thanks

Tony its good to see an old friend. Hope you got my letter I sent to you yesterday.