Having Complications after Spinal Surgery. I Can not Never Sleep on My Left Side No More. Never Sleep on a Regular Pillo

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Never Sleep on a Regular Pillow Again. Unless 2 to 5 Minutes Both Arms Shoulders Biceps down Arms to Hands Palms Various Fingers Goes Severely Stinging and Numbing Immediately. I have to Remove High Pillow and Sleep on My Neck Soft Collar Each Night. Also Electrical Pain Shoots Down My Right Lower Leg to Ankle and Toes Sting and Foot Freeze. Also Headaches that can Last for Awhile. I feel it's Complications from the Hardware Placed in My Neck. Neurosurgeon kept Requesting to Me to go on Social Security Disability. He said His Surgery went Stormy that He offered to Do. Called "Cervical Laminoplasty". He did No Follow Up. I recently saw him on You Tube. And Pub Med talking About Failure of this Type of Surgery. "Cervical Myelopathy". His Pre-Op and Post-Op Read the Same. "Cervical Stenosis with Myelomalacia". He Relocated to Seattle. Will they Relocate Me back to California to Have Revision Surgery?

Nancy J. Wallace · Answer

Workers Comp insurer will only authorize precisely what an MPN Treating Physician writes in a Request For Authorization, an RFA.  No physician I know in 33 years has ever written that a patient must be relocated to get treatment. It is incredibly UNLIKELY that any insurer would relocate any worker even if the Treating PHysician requested such an extreme option.  The complaints you are having regarding sleeping need to be addressed by a physician near you on the Medical Provider Network, and that physician has to know enough California Law to write up the recommendations in a Request For Authorization (the RFA).  People who relocate out of state before their claim is closed rarely get any effective treatment because out-of-state doctors don't know how to write requests that California Adjusters have to authorize.

Q: Having Complications after Spinal Surgery. I Can not Never Sleep on My Left Side No More. Never Sleep on a Regular Pillo