I agree, time for a new doctor!! A good dr would allow you to try PT, etc., and other meds before doing something as invasive as a SCS. If an SCS is what he is pushing over everything else, then he is only concerned about $$, not you. I am not saying anything bad about SCS's because I had two of them and they were life savers for me (implanted June 2011, removed Jan 2014). While I was waiting approval for my SCS's, my dr did everything he could and everything I asked for to make sure I was comfortable with the decision (the insurance approval process took a while for me) to get them.