Terrific news on getting some pain meds. from your internist, albeit temporary. If he sees you're working on a remedy and having a difficult time, maybe he'd be willing to work with you for a while longer and keep the pain meds. coming. Maybe it would help if your rep. would write him a brief letter (or fax) and ask if he could help you out in this interim time with pain mgmt. as things are being worked out?

I guess you need to weigh the pros and cons of trying to work on the current stim. you have, or of getting it out and basically starting all over.

Hang in there. See, I knew you could do it