Ima victim of managed healthcare...

[SteveJ]

Tom if it is arthritis see if you can get some SolarazeGel, works pretty good for me. Was told to just use a matchstick head worth, pretty strong stuff.

[Eager Beaver]

Tom, I think a lot of us have some of the same pains that you are having. It seems different remedies work for different people, for the same pains. What reason did they give for not allowing the last shot of cortesone? EB

[Fishaholic]

Man I feel for you guys, and I'm here at home with only minor arthritis in my hands, elbow, knee, feet and ankles - oh yeah and that nasty blood clot in my leg...but the pain isn't so great that I need to get a shot. They did give me pain meds, but it made my heart race, gave me the shakes, and breathe funny, so I'm just trying to ignore the pain - sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. My parents told me it was gonna be like this, I didn't believe 'em...guess I'll have to tell them I'm sorry I didn't have more compassion for what they were going through.

I'm adding all you guys to my prayer list...God CAN take our pain away.

[hunter7711]

I also have it in several places. I've learned to just live with the pain. The VA has given me a number of meds for the pain, but I don't like all the side affects. I've never had better care than what I receive at the VA hospital.

[Cane Pole]

Tom, I think a lot of us have some of the same pains that you are having. It seems different remedies work for different people, for the same pains. What reason did they give for not allowing the last shot of cortesone? EB

New regulations. Can only have x amount of injections per visit. Same applies for skin cancer removals.

[backtocrappie]

I go in to the VA clinic bout once every 1.5-2 yrs and get an epidural in my L4/L5 (somewhere in there) and wala !
Lower back pain (Sciatic nerve) goes away ........
Doc just has me sit on bed, bend over on bedside table, nurse holding my hands, he sticks me = it's all good.......
Lost two jobs out on the KSC cause I couldn't walk/dying in pain = VA done/does me right ! ! !
I love America ! ! !

Sadly I am no stranger to that pain.This reminds me... I've got to buy an inversion table this week before I become a tax burden.

[Spawn]

Everybody gets it eventually, unfortunatly

[backtocrappie]

Everybody gets it eventually, unfortunatly

Oh..mine came WAY to young! I spent my 40th birthday just released from the hospital and in a walker. It's been one therapist, doctor and specialist after another since. I found a therapist who introduced me to inversion and poof!--works like magic.

[KDAVID1]

I here ya cane pole. Melissa and I run in to this kinda crap all the time--when you need the medicine you need it period--but they say when you can and can not get it. It is a pain (no pun intended)