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Those of you who remember from my last few posts, my Ortho stopped seeing me and prescribing me my meds until I saw PM. He's been pushing for it for months/year now but WC would never authorize it.

So after a month with none of my pain meds, I couldn't take it anymore. I called a Pain Management center around here and made an appointment.

I go in for the appointment and the doctor I saw doesn't 'believe' in prescribing painkillers for RSD or pain, even though I told him and showed him that I've been taking the same thing for 2 years now (Tylenol 4, nothing stronger). He said he wanted me to start nerve blocks.. okay, whatever..

If the nerve blocks worked, then I wouldn't NEED the painkillers, that's what he was getting at. BUT that meant that Workers Comp would need to AUTHORIZE the blocks, and aside from taking weeks for an answer from them, the probability of them actually authorizing the treatments was about 0.5% because they always give me a hard time, don't believe me, etc.

So of course I get a phone call on Friday saying that WC did indeed decline the nerve block treatment. Great. So I don't have my pain meds, STILL, and now I can't even get the nerve blocks or any kind of treatment (They also stopped my PT after a few months too). They haven't paid me since May 06', they keep appealing court decisions that are in my favor resulting in months and months of waiting around... And Social Services is still a joke. I'm on my third application for Disability/Temp Aid/Medicaid because they keep making mistakes on my applications and I have to start OVER again. Meaning I have to GO there, sit for hours, meet with a worker, go see their doctors, come back again, go through more appointments, etc... and like I've said before, I can not drive. My father has to take me to these things, and we do NOT have a lot of money.. he has to keep taking off work and losing time and money because of this, it's not fair.

We can barely afford to keep the house we are living in.. I haven't paid my credit card bills in over a year.. I'm sleeping on my 10 year old nephews old twin bed (I'm 6'1" by the way) because I can't afford to buy a new bed and oh, I have one pair of pants and one shirt. I have no clothes, can't afford them.

And now they've gone the lowest of low.. they actually declined the nerve blocks, I still can not believe it. I actually thought that MAYBE they would authorize them but no.. and I don't know what to do. I don't want to call my Ortho because I'll need to deal with that evil nurse woman whom I hate... I guess I need to call my lawyers on Monday, but I don't know what they can do.. I mean, we're still waiting on a decision on the appeal by WC a few months ago which I was told could take up to a year. By then, they'll owe me 100 weeks of pay.

This is NOT fair.. aside from the financial issues, I can't even get treatment I deserve. This is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.