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I had a bad back and years ago I kept trying to convince them that I had a problem. I was also living with sever headaches. I was told it was all in my head. My husband was in the military and we were left dealing with a small base hospital. Finally a new docotr came to the clinic and I was at total breakdown point. The psychiatrist I saw because "it was all in my head" called the doctor and said that while I had some issues I was dealing with them and it was his opinion that I had something else going on. This same psychiatrist diagnosed me with a severly low B12 deficiency and a thyroid disorder. Well the military doctor listened to him and myself and began running MRI's. I wanted my low back done first as I knew I had injured it a few years earlier but obviously the brain seemed the most logical, headaches and tumors. It came up clean and the next place he checked was my neck-it too was good. Finally in a last attempt he did my low back-Within 10 days I was having spine surgery. Had someone listened to me in the beginning. I would have had a whole lot less pain. Good luck and don't give up but do keep an opened mind. I had to take the back way (seeing a psychiatrist) to get what I needed done. Now I have almost routine MRI's as my back is totally messed up from my neck to my low back.
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