I've spent the last year trudging through injection after injection, new xrays and MRIs, appointments with surgeons, primary doctors, chiropractors, and pain management only to wind up exactly where I started. Last October, I had another MRI done of my spine, as my pain had been increasing again to the point where it was interfering with my daily life. I recently completed a set of injections called RFA, or radio frequency ablations. This was a last ditch effort, really to find a solution to pain, short of surgery of some kind. When I saw my surgeon back in March, he told me that the only real option was to operate and do a discectomy and fusion at C2-3 and C3-4 in my neck, while pain management told me that my last option was to have a pain pump or neuro-stimulator surgically implanted in my spine.
