It's really my insurance that's the problem. There are several really good docs local that have lots of experience with rsd. But they don't accept my insurance.

Even my current pm, when I first saw him he asked me what insurance I have, when I told him he fell back in his chair and made stabbing motions on his chest. He then told me that my insurance is one of the worst he works with and it will limit what I can do. They wouldn't even cover nerve blocks, which seems pretty standard as a diagnostic and treatment tool. I'm not gonna worry about finding another doc yet, because if/when I do get married I can choose what I want. My fiancee has a choice of about 8 different carriers and different levels of coverage within each carrier, so I am going to figure out what docs I want to see and then choose which insurance goes best.

My doc right now seems reluctant to give me much as far as meds most of the time, unless I cry, and then he seems to give me too many. It's a shame that when I come prepared with notes, calendars showing my days, etc, that I'm not taken as seriously as when I can't stop crying. And the only reason I was crying was because I was so sick from the morphine he was giving me that I was so worn down and ready to give up. I think because I try to keep things together when I see him so I don't forget something important he thinks I'm fine or something . . . . I don't know. Whatever it is I don't want to be switching doctors now, only to switch again in less then a year from now. I do also see a physiatrist, who monitors my physical therapy, and he also is the director of a pain clinic, but his philosophy is that rsd shouldn't be treated with ANY meds at all. I've talked to him about him taking over my meds before, and he ended up writing a letter to my current pm doc saying I was thinking of switching. This was all during the morphine mess too I could switch to him, but his first thing would be to wean me off all my meds.