by wecc » 06 Jan 2013, 21:02
Hi All...this is the PM I sent to Barbara...I hope it helps all of you who are in need. Just know there is light at the other side
Hi Barbara….
Happy New Year. That’s him…Dr. Leiboff!!!!! I was in so much dame pain…life really sucked. I could not do anything with my kids, I had to travel for work and I have so many horror stories. I was at the point that I saw a big shot CRS and was already set for a LIS, I had the date and such. I did not want to have a LIS, like I said, so many people have issues with post-op. I do not care how they spin it, it’s not great….period As I said in one of my post, Germany which we know how advance they are went back to a form of SDA because of all the LIS post op problems. Yet with all this, I was still going to have a LIS simply because I was always in pain…always. Then as I was doing some research late one night because my butt was killing me, I stumbled onto this Dr and SAD. THANK GOD I DID.
Barbara, you read about all the post op LIS things on this site and I was playing touch football with my son and his friends 6 day after the SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The day after the SAD, I was walking in the mall. For 6 months I was waiting for something to happen…”it cannot possibility be this easy”……well 12 months and a few days and NO PAIN, nothing at all. Living 2 hours away is NADA!!! I had a lady that sent me a message that lives in LA and she got on a plane, stayed in a hotel for a few days, and they came back for a follow up again. She wrote me an email thanking me that brought tears to this old Marine.
The SAD was a breeze….really! you read all these post about how worried people are taking that post LIS BM and so was I….NOT ONE BIT OF PAIN. I am so very pissed off at the CRS community for putting people though all this when a SAD is a real alternative that works. Almost all the other developed countries do SAD….I am telling you it all comes down to $$$ and most of my family are doctors. OK I am getting off tract here……sorry. Just some of the post I have reed get me so mad. People are really suffering for no reason.
Anyway Barbara….good luck and the fact is you really are not going to need it. One last thing….the Dr does not have the best bed side manner, kind of matter of fact, maybe a bit cold. Do not let that bother you…..I do not care if he was a doctor that just got out of prison…he got rid of all my pain is about 1 hour and a year later…in great shape! I am 55 and he is a bit older, my greatest fear is if I ever need him again he might be retired. I hope he has a son in med school