Greatful and other details

I can only sum up what my feelings are for my pain management doctor with that word, greatful.

Dr. A and his physician assistant Julye are not ok with me being in significant pain. They said that at my first appointment that they thought that chronic pain was a major issue which was different from the thoughts of all of my other physicians, which I do have a bunch of them. I saw them yesterday as an urgent patient appointment, my next scheduled appointment to get refills on my medications was next week but I had a few issues that I needed to take care of with their staff, and was in so much pain from a migraine and neck pain...could barely move my head from side to side had to actually move my whole upper body to have as much visual range that I needed to see my blind spots when I was driving.

He did another occipital nerve block and a set of 2 cervical trigger point injections. The occipital nerve block and the left cervical trigger point hurt so bad my body tensed up and I started to have tears form in my eyes. He was very gentle and asked me multiple times "You okay Love?" I kept saying yes I will tell you if I need you to stop, right now I just really need to focus on my breathing, if you can help me with that I will be doing a bit better. So he started saying deep breath in and out and helped me to focus on my breathing.

Tomorrow I will go and see my ENT tomorrow to figure out if I am a good canadate for ear tubes to try and reduce the frequency of my ear infections and the resulting 10 days on antibiotics. It is rather ironic because this is the doctor that wouldn't place tubes when I was a young child, and he is the one who put tubes in my dad when he was in his 30s. But he is atleast willing to think about doing them now. I want to have them placed under general or atleast concious sedation even though I know that it can be done with just a local. I am just not that big on being in pain when there are less painful options available. This will make it the 3rd major procedure that I have done within the current calander year.