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Old 11-28-2006, 02:08 PM
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I'm a wimp when it comes to firing doctors or PT's.

I just call to cancel my appointments, usually making some excuse about my car not working, then I tell them I will call to reschedule when my car is fixed -- and then I never show up again.

Since your PT is in the same office as your pain doctor, you could cancel your appointments by saying that you want to speak to the pain doc before continuing, and then when you have an appt with the pain doctor tell him the problems and ask for a different type of PT (or no PT at all).

In my experience with PT, they never understand fibro or connective tissue disease so they end up ordering me to do things that make me worse. One PT injured my SI joint and left shoulder a few years ago, and both are still having problems today because of what the PT did.... so I told my doctor that i will not go to PT again unless she can find a PT that understands fibro, CTD, and hyperflexibility.

Take care,
Liz
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