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badgerbagOkay, I'm going to jump back into the diagnostic pit of hell. Just a little.
Staffnord neuro clinic:
new patient appt 650-725-5792
It is physician referral only.
* Must get dr. to call the neuro resident on call.
* Then, have the dr. fax to 723-6002; with a letter, name, phone, date of birth, insurance info and an authorization.
* Then wait for neuro patient intake to call.
Going to see my GP next tuesday at 3pm.
The social worker hasn't called me back yet. But the thought of her being so nice made me take heart. I cried a bunch on zond-7 and then declared half a day off work. My friend hazelbroom gave me a massage. I drove home in sort of a weepy daze. Then I fell asleep.
I still feel like there's no point. I can do phys therapy exercises by myself in bed. Physical therapy itself mostly would exhaust me and was torture -- especially ice, traction, tens - all horrible. Well. I'm trying it anyway. Then, maybe if I get a really nasty low point, they will already have me set up in their system.
I will refuse any nerve conduction studies or newfangled injections-into-the-painful-places!
Can't decide whether to go back to the other neuro who misdiagnosed me.
Staffnord neuro clinic:
new patient appt 650-725-5792
It is physician referral only.
* Must get dr. to call the neuro resident on call.
* Then, have the dr. fax to 723-6002; with a letter, name, phone, date of birth, insurance info and an authorization.
* Then wait for neuro patient intake to call.
Going to see my GP next tuesday at 3pm.
The social worker hasn't called me back yet. But the thought of her being so nice made me take heart. I cried a bunch on zond-7 and then declared half a day off work. My friend hazelbroom gave me a massage. I drove home in sort of a weepy daze. Then I fell asleep.
I still feel like there's no point. I can do phys therapy exercises by myself in bed. Physical therapy itself mostly would exhaust me and was torture -- especially ice, traction, tens - all horrible. Well. I'm trying it anyway. Then, maybe if I get a really nasty low point, they will already have me set up in their system.
I will refuse any nerve conduction studies or newfangled injections-into-the-painful-places!
Can't decide whether to go back to the other neuro who misdiagnosed me.
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Date: 2008-10-18 03:58 am (UTC)I think refusing painful diagnostic procedures when they've only been sucky and useless is entirely reasonable. Maybe let them come back later when they've done something to actually help you out. They've got that stupid hippocratic oath, yah hey.
Your story about the social worker who called back makes me feel better about my friend whose social worker just sent her a stack of papers and documentation to read and decide and right now...
I have a yoga teacher who is a physical therapist that I adore (Yoga for Chronic Pain, I have been taking her six- and eight-week sessions nonstop for the last going-on-three years, and everyone in the class has pain issues of one kind or another so it is pretty low-key). If the PT exercises are of any use to you, maybe a better practitioner would be, like, more supportive. I had a massage therapist who was the first to steer me in any helpful direction.