I honestly don't know how to place this question. I have had problems for over 35 years and have been to so many doctors. I know I have DDD, bone spurs, myofacial pain syndrome, CFS, nerve impingement, cervical fusion C5 thru C7 and L4-5. I have more spurs in my cervical area and lumbar area and mild scolosis now. Because of the extent of my pain I now have the fentanyl pump. Whenever I reach or stretch upward I end up with spasms from top to bottom including my feet. The bottom and across the top of my feet, both of them. I have tried for the past 5 years to get a doctor to tell me they would try to do something for me. In Texas i was given botox injections for the myofacial pain and this helped for about 7 months but in Missouri the doctors claim they do not get reimbursed enough so will only give steroids and steroids really ravage a person's body and for the past 3 years have been refusing them. My pain doctor will do treatments on my spine but the steroids he uses only cause more weight gain and I have to refuse them as my back cannot support any more weight. Am so trying to stay out of a wheelchair or being bed ridden. I am getting so I can do less and less. Have started a website for people in chronic pain just to give me something meaningful to do and help others. Is there anything else that can or is being used in treatments for the spine besides steroids. I will see my pain doctor the 17th and will talk with him if you have anything at all to offer. I do my research but thus far nothing pops up that he can do. I would love to find a spinal specialist. I found one in Columbia but he does not take my insurance. Thanks for allowing me to air this. My pain even with breakthrough meds usually runs most days between 8-9 on the pain scale. Sincerely, Billie