toomuchpain
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^When I did physical therapy without insurance I had to pay about $800 a month while going for an hour twice a week. I have only seen pain specialists with insurance but whenever I have seen other specialists without insurance (neurologist and neurosurgeon) it cost about $500 per consult.
I don't know what you meant about being in the county's system... do you have a form of insurance through the state? If not, can you get on medicaid? You should check with your doctor about seeing a specialist and look into the aid programs. I'd just like to mention how fucked it is that we are paying triple+ per capita per year (~$8,000) what every other industrialized nation is paying for health care; 47,000,000 lack insurance; most are under-insured and people WITH insurance routinely get fucked; and finally 18,000 people die annually due to lack of health insurance.
I'm really sorry you are in this situation and insurance or not, you are going to have to fight for relief- its never handed to us but in case this is a chronic issue, you REALLY don't want to abuse your medication. You risk losing your doctor's trust and getting cut off, having to deal with addiction on top of chronic pain and overall it will just fuck things up worse.
Take care man and let me know if I can help in any way, I've been living in pain for 34 months now.
that sucks man, its real dissapointing....i hope it doesnt become chronic pain, and i dont know if ill be able to get that ct scan, you know everything i said about the depression and whatnot, all that is just the beginning, im at the point where i need to get back on xanax, and certainly my doc will absolutely not prescribe me that, im already looking for a pyschiatrist
i dont know if i can afford any kind of pain specialist, ill just try to do my best whatever it is
thanks man, appreciate what you said, im going to stay on that nerountin for a couple weeks to see what happens, im also getting my flexeril refilled so hopefully it will help with combining the 2