All in one day i got called by Doctor Bethune office for an appointment March 31st for my follow up and then i got a call from Doctor Kerby's office to see her on March 11th. And i see my family Doctor March 20th. So i can't wait to see what there going to say or do to me i just hope they all have a plan so i don't have to wait any longer. My family Doctor was talking about sending me to a pain doctor to see if we can't find some other way of taking control of this pain with out all the heavy drugs and she also said she was putting in a request for a tub i am not sure if it is a hot or whirl pool tub and best of all she was asking for a tread mill so i can only pray i get something. They are also going a head with the LMR plan unless the Doctors put a stop to that which i would think they would a lest till they find some other drugs because everything i am on will i can hardly keep my eyes open and some days i am not even sure were i am. So i can't wait to see them i just hope they have some answers and good ones none of this **** will it could be this or that and what ever they come up with it better be because of my job clear cut i just don't wont to have to fight with comp any more. I should find out one way or the other if Bethune is going to go head with my left side i can't see it my self because the right side hasn't changed. Since the surgery back in Aug any way i have to sign off i can't keep my eyes open any longer i will let you all know what the doctors have to say bye for now.

Hay there hope every one is doing fine considering the winter we all have been having here it is starting to feel like spring and every one has been getting the spring fever. Will i saw Doctor Kerby yesterday and she said the good news is she can't find any thing else wrong with me other then what i all ready have wrong. Bad news she has no idea why i have tremors in my right arm. She made a wired commit about it may be the way i am dealing with my injuries. To me that sound like she was saying its all in my head or i am faking it or something. I also talked to my case nurse at comp and now she is saying my doctor said yes to me going to the pain clinic. it is a bout 25 min from were i live but because i can't drive i might have to stay at a hotel for six weeks will i go to the clinic. I told her that is not the place for me i need a doc who deals with pain and getting it under control not work harding not yet anyways being that i haven't healed form the first surgery and i haven't had any thing done to my left arm as of yet. As will that Bethune stopped all that physio because it just causes me to stay in a constant flair. So finely after a half hour of disusing the pros for her and all the cons that i had she said i could go a head and start message therapy and when i see my family doc to figure out what we are going to do and let her know so she can do what ever she has to then. So i am clad that she is not going to push this clinic because i know its not the answer right now getting a pain doctor to find a way to get me under control so i can find a way to get back to some kind of work. I truly hope i don't have to start fighting with my doctors they have been so good with working with me i just hope that it does not change now. Has any one else seen or seeing a pain doctor and what have they done and have they helped? If any one can let me know i would appreciate it ok bye for now.

Hi Mucker; I think you are wise to stay away from wcb's pain clinic. I would be afraid it would be a packaged deal, meaning physical therapy, occupational thearapy(work hardening), physchological counseling,and there is usually a team coorinator(a nurse) and of course a Doctor. While I think some of the clinic might be beneficial for ex: the Doctor to help sort out medications and possibley try new one's with observation and guidence.Of course physc. counselling can be of help with chronic pain and the loses that come with a work injury. However that being said, one area that I would be cautious about is work hardening and some exercises from physical therapy. Did you see the Physiatrist lately? since their speciality is physical rehabilitation it would be wise to touch base with he/or she first reguarding if physical therapy is appropriate and what's the best exercises or stretches for your particular injury. Have you reached Maximum Medical Improvement?? I get so angry!! Barb listen to your Family Doctor, She has your best interest at heart as wcb just puts the cart before the horse(getting you back to work with no thought or care for your mental and physical state). They have guidelines and policie's to follow and they tend to push alot of decisions to medical advisor's which have no trouble with denial. Whatever they are paid, I just coudn't do it (one must live with one's self and be able to know that we must be accountable in the end for our decisions especially when you are making decisions for an injured worker that needs your help.
I am speaking from experience. I know your not ready for work hardening. If message gives you relief from pain, thats a good place to start. I think a Doctor spealizing in medications a pain doctor another great idea. Honestly I just can't believe the way injured worker's are pushed through a system. People just don't have time to heal. Injured worker's making life, career decisions before they even know what disabilities or physical impairments they are left with. Enough said(angry). All my best buddy.

I am angry. Is it possible to sue a medical advisor?? After all they make decisions for an injured worker's care. I mean they can deny medications, therapy etc. without even examining you. Are they specialist's?? Why should they refuse orders from specialist's and family doctor's? Oh. the day will come here in Canada.

I went for message therapy on Friday oh god was it a good hurt when she was around the upper shoulder and moving her hands down i could feel these balls the size of golf balls in side so i guess it will be a few visits before she gets read of those puppy's. So for now i will be seeing her twice a week for a half hour i wish they would pay for an hour twice a week. So any one else out there have any ideas for pain treatment or to keep it under control i am hopping that if i can get off these drugs then i can drive a gain and get some kind of job i hope some one has a idea about pain control that has worked for them other then poping pills thanks bye for now and hope every one is doing good.

Will will the truth came out now i can't wait till the comp nurse is back from her holidays. I don't think she is going to like me to much when i get done talking to her. I saw my family doc on Thursday were she told me that she never agreed with sending me to the pain clinic over in Dartmouth. She told the nurse from comp that she wonted me to be fast tracked to the pain clinic at the Halifax hospital were they have a pain doc on staff who would be able to help with the pain control. Also she told her that she wonted one of those tubs i think a whirlpool not sure but any ways she also said a treadmill for my house. But that's not what the nurse told me so i asked why and she said it made no since to go and do it for six weeks at the clinic and go home and not continue there. which makes since to me to so hopefully i will get it but i know and i told her that it will be a fight so are you willing to go that far. She said she would what she has to because she believes that it would be the best thing to help me have a better life. The doc also showed me the request she wrote out and sent to comp so i don't know how the comp nurse would even try to pull one over on me boy they must think people are stupid. So she is going to send a letter to Bethune and let him know what she is doing and what has been going on with me and see if he will back her up on the request. I see him on the 31st of this month so i will see what he has to say. I am just fed up with this whole thing i know he wont send me to physio and the only physio i have had is were they just make you stretch and left wights for an hour every day it is more of a work harding and it only cause pain so i not sure what most of you are talking about when you talk about going to pt and a lot of yous seem to have been doing pt for a very long time and if it is any thing like what i have done i think i would be dead by now. Any way that's it for me nothing else going on just sore and ****** ha ha bye for now and all take care

Hi there will i saw Doctor Bethune yesterday and that's it for me there is nothing else he can do for me. He started to apologize to me and i stopped him and said we were both aware that it was a slim chance of it working. But he said that he would back up my family doctor and if i need him for any thing just call the office and make appointment he will see me. He was happy to hear i was back in message therapy and he agreed with me seeing a pain doctor he said that the point shots just might be the thing to help me get my life back. So i don't really no what he is going to write to comp because i was doped up when i saw him so i really wasn't on the ball like most days because i had to take my lorazepam because i was having muscles spasms before i went in i could hardly keep my eyes open so i guess i will know in a few weeks when he sends a report to my doctor. Will that's it for now i hope every one is doing fine

Will that was a good one i have know idea how i but two of the same posts up but if some one knows how to get read of one could you please. Any way i spoke to the comp nurse to day and she said now that we have come to the point were what healing can be done is done i will now move on to nle i think that's what it is called. They will send me a list of doctors and i will pick one and then that doctor will say what percent of disability i will get. The occupational therapist was out to day and took my measurements for a desk and chair. So does any one have any advice on a good chair and type of keyboard i am sure some where along the way i have read about different keyboards and chairs that were preferred over the regular stuff any way if any one has any thing they like if you could let me know i would greatly appreciate. Now i have to wait and see if Bethune is going to recommend if they put off on my schooling until i get some help from the pain control doctor which i hope they do then maybe i could think strait. Will at lest i am moving ahead instead of sitting still and not knowing what was going to come next. so bye for now take care all

So now the company is after me finally i went for a walk to day down to the post box and surprise there was a nice big envelope in the box for me from WSIB a long with a smaller letter. So i got home and sat down i just new what it would be why would they send me something good. After i read what they were appealing and that they hired a MD to write a letter for them to say that i did not have carpel tunnel or TOS and if i had carpel it was because i have hypothyroidism not caused from my job. And i couldn't have TOS because there were not enough test done to prove it i have never read such a load of crap before. Any ways i guess i will just have to take the letter and the list of objections to the doctors and get them to correct there doctor. And make sure they include my blood work for my thyroid so that they can see that it has nothing to do with my carpel tunnel. Will this should be fun can't wait till we all have the big meeting were i get to say my piece. So that's it for my miserable life bye for now

another bump that seems to be par for the course for most wc cases, hang in there