Pain Management Springfield Missouri
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What and Where is this OCH place they talk about. I see a lot of posts are 3 to 5 years old. Anything current? My husband has been in chronic pain for years and they keep taking MRI's and scans....we really have no clear answer on teh results except they look good!! Then why is he in hellish pain all the time? We have gone to 2 pain management clinics and neither one prescribes pain meds and you have to wait 3 to 6 weeks for an injection appointment! What is he to do in the mean time...just suffer?

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Unfortunately YES, my husband has a messed up back and has been seeing a pain specialist in CA. We moved here to the Springfield area, and he went to Urgent Care and they knew what he was there for, only to be told NO. His appointment to see a Dr is in September. Just so wrong. We are willing to travel hundreds of miles if we have too. This is an up to date post. Anyone out there know of a Pain Specialist that will keep him on what is helping him? Please respond {edited for privacy} with any possible leads. We are at deaths door. It took a DR to put us on the meds and now no Dr will help you get off of them, without dying. Especially after years of pain suffering, finally on a regiment that helps him get out of the bed. Any Dr with some feelings about pain sufferers please help us. This is so wrong.

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Tinkerbelle, I wish I could talk to you, because even though our scenarios are a little different we have a common need. I totally understand where you are coming from, honestly I am tired of being treated badly when all I want is to be able to barely function. I had a good dr for over 9 years and a perfect record. But I got blindsided by my husband of 20 years and his stupid mid life crisis.
I had to take our children and move in with family about 14hrs away, because he even quit paying our mortgage. anyway I am racking my brain trying to find a decent pain management dr in Missouri that will write medication I need so badly. I tried the shots in my back and butt, and the nerve block up my spine. It went bad fast, I have had epidurals for C-sections 4 times and it grew scar tissue in my spine, and when they tried the nerve block I couldn't feel my legs or feet for about three to four days. My dr from back home said he would never do that to me again. So I desperately need meds and still have a lot of pain from my multiple "falls down the stairs" injuries over and over. If you know of any decent doctors in bottom of Missouri, please let me know. The pain is more than anyone should have to suffer, and I didn't do anything to deserve to live like this.

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Those are older posts and there are no simple answers except to say things are only becoming more restrictive without tangible documentation of a condition (i.e.;mri,cat scan, Xray) most General practioners are extreamly hesitent to prescribe opiate like narcotics. Some pain clinics have even switched to only non narcotic therapy bc of the epidemic of abuse of these drugs. It's truly sad for all who suffer the indignity of chronic pain and the stigma attached .

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