Thanks for all your responses.

To be fair, it was the neuro's PN, not the neuro herself who was making the pain management remarks. But again, I don't see that neuro until December. What is it with that specialty? I've never seen that much backlog with other specialists.

Anyway, I called to see about the new neuro , and no, he's not a PN specialist. And for other reasons that would be too lengthy and boring for you to read and me to write, I think I'm starting to smell a scam between this practice, the GP and a third party. If I turn out to be right, I'll let you know.

I did try acupuncture, and that didn't help at all. But I'm not sure that I was dealing with someone who knew what she was doing so I might be willing to try again.