I remember a doctor in NYC calling me about brain stimulator treatments. I forget the hospital but it was some sort of study but would involve us paying for a hotel room up there. We ended up doing ketamine instead. I wonder if this is the same therapy...can you tell me the hospital where they are doing this?

Its a hospital in South Carolina. I believe there is only one doc in the hospital that has experience with the brain stimulators. I would much rather try the ketamine, but even if Medicare covered it, I doubt I could come up with the travel money.

My primary doc spent an entire hour today going over the recent new stuff. He agreed that trying the Opana instead of Oxy was worth a try. So, as soon as I hear from the insurance company about the appeal for them not covering the Opana, I will give it a try & see how it goes. Really hope they decide to cover it so I can give this a try. Otherwise I will have to come up with a new plan I guess. I have officially signed over my pain med responsibilities to this new pain mgmt. doc so I hope he turns out to be good!!! Time will tell I guess.