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Hi Vicki: Some insurance companies push primary care doctors to be the only ones to deal with chronic pain (for monetary reasons), and many primary care doctors are not educated enough about how to treat chronic pain cases PLUS may also be afraid of state/federal agencies coming down on them for prescribing sufficient meds to relieve the pain. I was on an insurance plan that only allowed pain management specialists to do back epidurals which failed miserably. But the insurance plan wouldn't allow the pain management doctors to help me any further with pain management for chronic pain and I had to return to the primary care doctor for that without any success. I finally went outside of the system and came up with a type of meditation and discovered with my one cat as my partner that I can relax and get out of pain for a while. I feel for those that haven't found a way to release pain even for a short while. AND chronic pain creates other problems such as depression and can potentially lower the body's immune system to other ailments. It can also disrupt the family and cause significant others to leave because they can't take being with the disabled person in chronic pain any longer. So I truly wish chronic pain would be taken as a priority in health care in the U.S. because people in chronic pain deserve to receive treatment to get out of pain so they can live a better life. A good rule of life is do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup
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