Thank You Dan. I fear we are really going to find a pain med. I been on approx. 50 different meds & nothing has worked. I worked with a pain management clinic prior to this neurologist. This is neurologist #2.

He did not do the spinal yesterday but he did a nerve conduction study that sent me spinning. Its been a year since the last one & man this one hurt like hell. I still can't stand up on my feet. Really riled things up in there.

My cpap machine was acting up & I was not using it so I got in trouble for that. He said the gov. is coming down on all these cpaps that medicare is paying for & people are not using so he will not go forward in treating me with pain meds until I start using my machine again. So we have another sleep study set up for the end of this month & then we'll try the patch. I sure look forward to that working. It would be great if it does.