doctor in los angeles, southbay, please?
 

i've recently moved here and have had rsd for 12 years. i need to find a neurologist or pain specialist who is very familiar with rsd please.:confused:

Yep , Dr Edward Carden in Marina Del rey...rsd specialist and author.

http://www.discmdgroup.com/pain-management/doctors.asp

Another great neuro and pain management guy is Dr Sheldon Jordan in Santa Monica on Wlishire Blvd. Dont have his number but call directory assistance. Don't know if he treats a lot of RSD patients though

THE UCLA pain management guys ...eh, not that good.

But I believe fmichael has a doc at USC that he swears by.

I would be that RSD guy, and here's my doctor at U.S.C., of whom I think the world:

Steven Richeimer, M.D.
Chief of Pain Medicine, Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Director, U.S.C. Pain Management Center
1520 San Pablo Street, Suite 3450
Los Angeles CA 90033
323-442-6202
323-442-6255 (fax)

Not exactly geographically convenient from the South Bay, I grant you, but I found that coming initially from Santa Monica with mid to late morning appointments the traffic was never very bad. (But avoid late afternoon appointments at all costs.)

Mike

I thought it was you fmichael! But my brain is gone today and I needed to go back and reread my pm's to make sure. :) :hug:

Doc inLA...
 

Dr. Joshua Prager is a good PM guy. He's in Westwood:

310-264-7246
100 UCLA Medical Plaza
Ste. 760
LA 90095

You can't refer yourself for an appointment. You're current doctor will have to send over records/report, and then they'll call you. The initial consult is $650. You pay as you go, and then get reimbursed by your insurance company.

He's really experienced in all RSD treatments (we're starting ketamine infusions next week...)

Good luck.

thank you
 

thank you so much for responding and giving me some places to start. i really appreciate it.:) it feels good knowing there's other people out there dealing with this.

Just wanted to clarify. When I said the UCLA docs not that great, I meant at the Santa Monica location and the ones on staff.

Dr Prager is great! And though he practices on the UCLA campus he is actually in private practice and not part of the othe UCLA pain management office.

I couldn't agree with you more about UCLA in Santa Monica.

My experience with their Pain Mgnt. clinic was a disaster. Very shabby, unsophisticated treatment. Stay far away...

I'd pass on Sheldon Jordan.
I too am a fan Of Dr Richeimer.
He is very thorough .Dr Jordan is not .



Peace
GnP

Hi. I saw Dr Carden and a pain doctor at Ucla. The ucla agree with all you. If I can help you feel free to email me.

daniella -

Hi. What's your read on Dr. Carden?

Looking at his website, he looked a little too traditional for my liking, including references to pumps, SCS and that old chestnut, surgical sympathectomies.

Mike

Hi. Sorry I am late responding. I have seen 4 pain management docs this year. Dr Carden,one at Ucla,2 at Cleveland Clinic. With that nothing has changed but I got 3 different things I should do. I felt Dr Carden like many rushed me,didn't look at my records,and his thing is the epidural shots which from what I read is one not long term effective and now may not even be a way of dx. My recent pain doc who I saw at Cleveland who deals a lot with rsd I felt answered more of my ?'s and had a plan ahead. Though a few thoughts bothered me there too. I hate to say negative about any doc unless a huge mistake was made or like the one at ucla who gave me a video and told me to get the scs without even answering any ?'s or talking about what it entails.

So for LA, I guess that narrows it down to Drs. Prager and Richeimer.

Having seen both, I would recommend Dr. Richeimer, unless what you really want is to be fitted with an implanted pump, which seems to be Dr. Prager's preferred method of treatment, or at least was when I saw him sometime back. Then there is also the issue of "bedside manner" on which I would give Dr. Richeimer the highest marks under the Sun . . . .

In addition, Dr. Richeimer at USC takes most forms of insurance, while last I saw Dr. Prager, he accepted vitually none.

Hi all!
Been absent for a little while, you know, with life interfering and all . . . I know that this is a bit out of the area, being in Thousand Oaks, but he's worth it. He used to be in Beverly Hills, and I traveled to him from Ventura area. Ojai, to be exact. His name is Dr. Assil. Kamyar Assil. I adore this man. I was 12 when I started seeing him and he was the first person to tell me that I wasn't crazy. He's all for non-traditional approaches, but then when the going gets tough he will respond aggressively. He installed my spinal stim. He has the best bedside manner, and sometimes that is half the battle. And he set me up with my current doctor in San Diego at UCSD who is wonderful. So he's not some smalltime guy. They see each other at conferences all the time and he still asks about me 8 years later. And my SD doc is Farshad Ahadian. Something about these Persian guys . . . sweethearts who have saved my life. If anyone has questions, just ask . . . I'll be around more.
Lynn