Wish me luck,I finally got an appointment to see a Pain Specalist and it is next Tuesday in Lubbock,Tx. at 11:00 am.I don`t know what to expect because I have never been to a pain specalist before.I have been treated for pain but not chronic pain.The reason that I am going to one is simply that I can`t deal with it anymore.I need to get some relief because it is starting to affect the people around me.It is something that is hard for me to admit but I have a problem and it is not going away,so I need to get help to at least control the pain and not let it rule my life.I may be setting my hope to high but I do need to at least give it a try.I got some more reports back from that so called NS in Lubbock and now he is saying that I don`t have a Syrnix in my spine at all.If I don`t then what is it that they operated on in Denver in "05".They told me then that I have 3 of the buggers in my spine and I know that they are still there because I have copies of all the MRI`s that have been done and they are there.If his report is just so he won`t have to treat me that is fine with me because I don`t think he knows what he is supposed to be looking for.I don`t think he realizes that I used to be an X-ray tech and can see what the doctors in Denver saw.I ask them to show it to me and they did.I even saw them on the last MRI`s that the doc here in my hometown did and the tech also saw them.I am begining to think seariously about going back to Denver to my NS up there because these guy`s down here just don`t have a clue about what is going on.At least in Denver I could have some of the same doc`s that I had before and they already know what my history is and how to treat it.I don`t know what this NS down here is doing but I tried to tell him that all that I needed him to do was check and see if the shunt that was put in me is still doing it`s job or if it is blocked.They told me in Denver that every year I would need to get more MRI`s with and with out contrast to see if it was ok.This guy acts like I don`t know what I am talking about and most of the time he would not even talk to me directly he was talking more to my brother than to me.He acted like I wanted him to do more surgery instead of what I went to see him about.I never told him that I wanted any surgery unless the shunt was blocked.He just never got it at all.As you can tell I am a little ticked off about this doctor if you can call him that.I don`t think I will refer to him as a doctor any more,I think I will call him the "Village Idiot".I know that some of you will think this is going to far but come on when I went the first time to see him he said point blank "you should have went back to Denver" and when I took out my MRI`s he said that they would not tell him anything that he needed a CT meylogram and he said that that was his recomendation,now he is trying to tell ever one that it was my idea.The more I think abnout him the madder I get.Well this has been what has been going on in my life for the past 2 weeks,along with getting more migraines and having a bad cold it has not been good.Maybe next week will be better.At least that is what I am praying for.Later,Monte