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Originally Posted by lovefamilypets
I just had to respond to your post after reading it. What a rare doctor you have! I mentioned tDCS to my Pain Specialist and this is what he said "Oh you should be careful about any treatment out there that is experimental. They'll just suck up a bunch of money and be ineffective plus most of them have little to no evidence to support their claims. I would not do it unless there has been a double blind study with CRPS patients." And I'm thinking to myself what medication have we tried that has had a double blind study with CRPS patients? And that was the end of the conversation. He had never heard of it, he didn't care to look into it or discuss it.
Anyways, it is great to hear that your doctor is on board! Please keep us posted on how the treatment goes once you start. I really hope it works!
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I know...she's been so great. I almost had a heart attack back in November when I called on a Monday to schedule an appointment with her and the receptionist told me, "Wednesday is her last day...we can get you in tomorrow." It was one of those moments where I felt someone must be looking out for me because I just called on a whim because I had a few minutes to spare...I had planned on calling Wednesday. So I spent all day Monday completely stressed out...worried she was moving out of state or something. Thankfully...no...she was just moving to a different practice because the one she was in (while great) had just been bought by a large medical group that was going to impose a bunch of restrictions on the amount of time they could spend with patients and a lot of other stuff like that and she felt moving to an independent group would be better for her and her patients. She's very frank about stuff like that.
I am so so so lucky to have found her. She's a general practitioner, is not an RSD specialist, but I have gotten better care with her than any other doctor since I got RSD. My lawyer kept giving me a hard time (my RSD is the result of a work injury) insisting that I needed to get to a board certified pain management doctor (which work comp wasn't approving anyway...long complicated story) but this was at a point where my health was finally improving and I was finally getting better instead of getting worse and I just told him that I needed to do what was best for my health which was to continue treating with my current doctor. I told him that if work comp wanted me to see a pain management doctor then I would (assuming I didn't have to pay for it) but that I would not stop treating with my current doctor and mess up a treatment plan that was working. He may think I am crazy but I decided to put my health first and I am so very thankful I did.