Chronic pain cause doctors to view you as a drug seeker!!!

See my comments!
 Dr. Oz show and chronic pain.

@ Kris and all others. I see many patients with failed back surgeries and in my opinion they all never needed to have such dangerous procedures. The missing point in all chronic pain issues is the massive most venerable structures in the body and that is muscles, tissues, fascia, ligaments and bursa. Myofascial tissues wreak havoc in chronic pain cases.  I'm positive that all of your doctors see you like they have X-Ray vision as a skeleton and look past the muscle tissues to something fixable in the skeleton. Myofascial pain can not be found with a scan or X-rays, but with palpation with your hand and fingers.

Please read and refer to Janet G Travell, MD text books. If you pain manager or surgeon does not have her books readily available, see another doctor.

Broken bones have a predictable pain cycle and evolution, really bad then by the 6-8 week period no pain. If pain lingers it comes from the stressed myofascial tissues.

In your case, these are the missing points;
1. Myofascial pain is treatable pain, treated with manual therapy as with massage, trigger point injections and acupuncture/GunnIMS.
2. Why are you keep fracturing vertebra??
3. You may have rebound pain from the pain medicine itself.
4. You may have opiate pain medicine hypersensitivity syndrome. The syndrome will magnify your pain to levels greater than max of 10.
5. You may have PTSD from the you plight, which needs to be treated.
6. I would suggest you get some vitamins and magnesium in your system.
7. I would think 3 time before spinal surgery ... I have never seen patients with fusions recover completely. I would never advise any of my patients to have spinal surgery...never!