Your mom is correct. You need to see a pain management specialist! You have been violated by the doctor that told you to learn to deal with pain. Pain is a very real illness and there are many valid and useful medicines on the market to help you learn to cope with pain but pain that is treated not allowed to go unmasked in your life.

It is a very sad day when a medical doctor refuses to treat a patient with serious health issues and pain!

If you can get a referal to see a pain doc, and also an orthopedic spine surgeon, you may actually see your life become livable again.

I am terribly sorry that this is how you have been treated!
Brian

Try to find someone who knows what sijd is...

Don't foget, you always have a right to a second opinion plus and if you can find a good primary care physician, he can refer you to more. I have had several surgeries and I am kind of against them as I was told by one that the more you have, the more arthritis you have down the line and scar tissue plus with you being young, you are probably still growing. The only thing that I do not like about pain meds is that it does mask the pain allowing you to put more pressure on the area, making it worse later, plus wasn't celbrex taken off of the market due to other health problems.
I know that the dr's cannot do much for me now as I am a lot older than you are and I am in paain 24/7, if I had good insurance and some money I think I would go for a pain pump now.
I do hope the dr's can do something with you! Have you tried accupuncture or bio-feedback or water therapy? I am no dr but I thought that I would ask.
My thoughts and prayers are with you!
Please, keep us posted on what you find out!

For me it took 15 years and I saw over 20 medical experts ( many x-rays, mris, blood and pee test,...) until I found first one who understood about human pelvis and sacroiliac joint functionality.

Just wanted to sympathise with you...I'm only 20 years old, about to start my second year at university. I have schuermann's (sp?) disease, herniated thoracic disc, mild scoliosis and a rotated pelvis, problems since I too was 12, but only diagnosed when I was 18. None of these are severe enough to have anything done to them by themselves, but added together I am constant pain. When I saw my registrar last and I asked him what to do, he said it was just pain, so cope with it. I then contacted his supervisor (the consultant) and she at least sorted out my medication and gave the registrar a bit of a talking to, although nothing can be done apart from medication (although I am going to try acupuncture). Problem is, the anti-inflammatories have wrecked my digestive system, so i'm now on another waiting list to see a gastro-enterologist and am without any anti-inflammatories at all, aie!

I am trying to get onto a pain management course, where they teach you how to manage your pain, appropriately! They teach things like how to sit down and get up, and how to get in and out of bed to minimise the pain, basically coping strategies, they work on the emotional side of it too. My friend has a completely wrecked back and pelvis from a car accident, and it's improved her quality of life remarkably.

The point i'm trying to say is that I understand about having several things wrong and everyone saying that they're not very bad and there's nothing worth treating, all the while being in sometimes vomit-inducing pain...The thing to do is to take control and force the doctor to understand, it's your pain and so they can't tell you that it's not that bad because if they had pain like that they probably wouldn't be able to be a doctor!


Hope it all goes well for you