Gabby - that would make sense, if he wanted me off just my pain meds, but he wants me off everything. And he is not the dr prescribing, so dea issues wouldn't be a concern with him, since he has nothing to do with any of the meds part of my treatment. He wants me off ALL meds, period, even my birth control, which I thought was just absolutly ridiculous.

I could and would understand if it was coming from my prescribing doctor, because of the reasons you mention. Then it would make some sense to me. Or if it was just the narcotics part, then it would make some sense to me. But all the meds, all at the same time, when my condition has been getting worse, not better, just too 'see' what my baseline of pain is seems to me like needless torture.

This doctor does have a strong anti med belief, which is why I've only seen him for physical rehab and never as a pain patient. He has tried to 'take control' several times in the past and has managed to make my pain mgmt doctor so angry that any suggestion that he would make now would be ignored. This doctor even wrote my pain doctor a very rude letter saying that scs's weren't good treatments for rsd and that he was going to do me harm by going through with a trial, then told me none of the pyschologists in his practice would do the pysch eval because he wouldn't allow them to play any part in me getting an scs because they are such awful things and I'd probably come out paralyzed.

I saw my pain dr today and he gave me some names of some other doctors that he knows, I'm going to give them a call and see how they are. I just want to have doctors that are open to working together and that will realize that some of their methods may work for me and some may not, but adding more stress by fighting over well known treatments and trying to scare patients by exaggerating risks is not going to help anyone.