Fractured vertebrae

[Momofkandl]

I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis in my neck and lower back several years ago. I also have a scoliosis in the middle of my back. As the years have progressed, so has my pain. After being treated, occasionally, by my primary physician, he thought it was time to refer me to a pain specialist. The pain specialist sent me for a psychiatric evaluation and for X-rays/MRI. After I completed those prerequisites (besides the MRI because they never sent the orders) I returned to the specialist just to be informed that I had fractures in two of my vertebra (if my memory serves me correctly, L2 & L3) AND that the practice would be closing its doors for good after I left that very day. I was shocked and failed to ask all the questions that I wish I had. Since then, I've been informed that the doctor at that office would be joining a team at the local hospital and I could make an appointment to see him...after his month long vacation and some relocation time...so November. I called my primary, he requested the X-rays and referred me to a physiatrist. The physiatrist refuses to see me because I've been treated by a pain specialist within the past year. So hear I sit with the severe pain of osteoarthritis and apparently fractured vertebrae and nobody will treat me. Does anyone have any suggestions?? Besides a trip to the ER?