Well Dr. Gorby, Your changing the name of the thread to protect the innocent didn't work!! I caught you guys.! Anyway is somebody not innocent around here?? *smile* Uh Anyway, Could I be right in assuming that a doctor would need maybe lots more documentation in my chart then just month after month of refilling my meds. We call it a monthly checkup but.... And I have been going to an orthopoed to see if anything new could be done well, crap I never even told you my 'story'. Maybe you heard from other posts, anyway, I m a congenital scoliosiser and at age 10-11 had spinal fusion, harrington rod placement, bone graft, some other nuts and bolts. Anyway back then they didn't fuse the last two vertebrae, hensse they've been carrying me around the last 20 years and discs are gone. But so are my cervical discs.. So I'm diagnosed with DJD, DDD, spinal stenosis, flatback syndrome, and oh I don't know, on and on the myopathies and other related symptoms. Anyway I'm in some big pain most all the time. No not most..... Really all the time. My doctor has had me on Darvocette, really that was it for the back for years. I did start with Valium several years before it became a severe problem because of anxiety attacks and the mild backaches I had then, the valium worked very well to relax those muscles. I knew I had to keep them strong, so I've always done abdominal exercises, low back stretching exercises, meditation, self hypnosis, ice, heat, hot baths, chiropractor who was blamed by my other docs for possibly dislodging the lower hook of the harrington rod and causing worse pain. But that's never been proven and I don't hold him responsible because I knew the risks of going to a chiropractor with this rod but I couldn't let one chance go. They want to do surgery to remove the rod and finish the fusions. Nevermind about the cervical discs, which are bugging the he** outta me and getting worse all the time. I couldn't figure out why they would want to do all this and then I'm told (well I know the risks) I could be paralyzed, or die or whatever with the surgery. But am told I won't be out of any pain or maybe a little. but I would have to stay on the same pain medications. So why do it? I began to believe it was so my primary could have the documentation and not have to worry for another few years about giving me the pain meds. Since I've thought of that, I realize the orthopoedic surgeon practically 'TOLD' my husband and I that but we weren't listening. We were trying to hear the 'we will fix you and you'll be out of pain (at least some!!) part, that we never really heard' or rather forced it out of him that I may be out of 'some' pain. Do you think I'm right? Should I have surgery anyway? What are our thoughts...????????????Please>?????????Dr. Mike? Dr. Skaredoff? Any thoughts on this.??? [end of message ... text also available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=2864396&hilit=HYPNOSIS> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&2865291 Score: 78 Subject: Re: Paul McKenna's PhD