So was it just my experience or does the VA choice program, well to put it bluntly, suck? Would it be better to have the VA create a network of Drs that will see vets. Kind of like an insurance company does. Cut out the middle man and save money in doing so. #Vets
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Yeah that's just too much hassle! I used to pay out of my own pocket, to go to a pain management clinic, until it closed. Getting into the PMC at the VA is too stressful. Once I'm in, I'm seen 6/mo for nerve burning & spinal injections, which hardly works.
Idk if it is just at my VA but they offer acupuncture for pain management. I've heard it works wonders but I have yet to try it. But before they arrived the wait was already 3 months long so ya. The VA is just a mess from what I have seen.
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I have never been offered acupuncture. I'm sure my VA doesn’t have anything that progressive. I do know they have a limit on how many schedule 2 narcotics can be prescribed(2), but no limit on how many actual prescriptions a vet can be prescribed with. Currently I'm at 15.
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Wow. At my high point I think I was only ever at a pain patch and about 5 meds. Now I'm at 0 and just live with the pain because nothing ever worked for me.
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