You definitely are on of the lucky ones. The last pain doc I had (not the current one...but the one who I had in January)...he would do a procedure and then you never saw him again. You would get a call from the nurse the next day to see how you were. I told her I was in a lot of pain in my back where the block was done and she just said, "That's normal. Call back tomorrow if there's still pain." Call the next day, and the day after, and the day after that with no answer and no call back. Seriously? Here I am now 3.5 months later with that "normal" pain worse than ever and no answer as to WHY it has happened or WHAT it is. Gee...thanks so much doc. When I finally got in to see him 2 weeks later he just freaked, said there was no way the block caused it, and said there was nothing else he could do for me. My boyfriend's mom was with me at that appointment when he said that and she quoted right out of the pamphlet for their office that she picked up in the waiting room that they are "specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of pain." The doc did not seem to like that she was calling him out on that. Oh well...I don't like being ignored and left to suffer because it's just too much trouble for a pain doc to help me with my pain.