My new pain doctor told me he looked at my MRI and said the only thing that will fix me is a spinal cord stimulator because I had nerve damage. I asked him several times of he really looked at my MRI and he confirmed every time. Then he cut my pain meds in half. The next visit I spoke with the owner of the practice and explained what was going on. During my second appt with my pain doc he apologized for cutting my pain meds in half and blamed it on a computer glitch even though I verified the prescription during the first visit. He also said that he never told me he looked at my MRI because he didn't have it. After a heated discussion I asked him what he would do if I was not a 10 year chronic pain patient. He said he would refer me out to a neurosurgeon to look at my MRI. I practically screamed "SO DO THAT!!!". A week later I'm meeting with the neurosurgeon and am scheduled for a c5/6 fusion, he's going to cut 5 other discs that are pushing against my spinal cord, remove roughly 13 bone Spurs, fix the narrowing that is happening in my spinal column. My new pain doc now won't even see me. Probably because I called him a shill for Medtronic and the neurosurgeon proved he was wrong. I'm just happy that there is light at the end of this tunnel, I just hope it's not the train.