It seems you have run into the most deaf group of butchers who happen to have the MD after their name.
who are these people?-even in AA if you take meds as prescribed its fine. Pain management is a whole profession un to itself and I was in it for 12 years and didn't ever have anybody question taking what was prescribed to me by one doctor. there is no need to judge you for taking meds as instructed. My pain management doctor finally agreed with me and told the medical board that it wasn't going to help and to have my styloid remove as he has exhausted all his meds-and I was getting pretty tired of them too.
"is it my fault I want to die with normal sized liver?" I finally asked him.
If you take them like a junky its bad and I don't see anything like that here. what a snap to judgment or ass covering.
What does any picture show you have?
In my case I had an ENT act as my advocate for 15 years-he wouldn't do the surgery but would send me to any doctor who might.
Just as a backdrop--I has ES on my right side beginning in 1989 and surgery in November 1990. But in the year and a half I had 3 mri's, 2 CT's, x-rays and all showed nothing. "allergies-but didn't, deviated septum and the doctor would fix that and give me a nose job and charge insurance-this was a common LA scam but if my pain was caused by that wouldn't I have had it all my life-I called him a quack in his waiting room. I was diagnosed by my orthodontist from my just describing my symptoms in Aug 1990. He said you have eagles syndrome and need a panoramic x-ray so I had it and it showed what I could feel with my finger and my right side styloid was removed and have had no pain there since.
So when I got the symptoms on my left side in 1996 I knew what I had. but it took 6 years to get surgery for that side. The surgeon removed my hyoid bone by mistake in 2002, only 3 cm in 2003 and finally had a great doctor removed the other 3cm in 2013. A bunch of **** ups lead me to finally getting the right doctor. But at least they were in the right area. But I saw 12 doctors in the past 15 years and my rule became "the first sign of non-empathy and I'm out of there".
But what you have been through is ridiculous. they are all over the map. pain meds no pain meds un-needed surgery and they say you have the problem? They screw you up worse and say you have the problem but your problem is them.
What does the CT show? but even they aren't so great-my February 2013 CT showed my left to be 9mm longer than my right but when I was operated on it was 30cm longer. Get a panorex-simple and a single x-ray and pretty definitive.
Find a skull base or reconstructive surgeon-I was sent to doctors at UCLA and Cedars in LA and finally had it done.
But with my surgical history I think I became kind of radioactive and no one wanted to operate for the third time in the same place.
if my ortho can diagnose me in 1990-this is not some rare thing anymore according to this site and my doctors and my 25 years of learning that bad doctors are not so rare.
But with your history don't let them touch you again until they show and tell you why. I trust doctors too but these seem to be guessing. I hope you are recovering from the tooth extraction well also.
don't let the fools get you down-maybe your psych. can do something to find a good doctor who will investigate your history and listen to you with compassion.
Also my insurance company became somewhat of my advocate because they realized they had paid $10,000's of dollars for useless unneeded surgery and they were going to keep paying for the symptoms of the cockup surgery and all the subsequent doctors until I found relief-so they became eager to help and they got me the last doctor I will need for ES-finally! Ask them to deal with the hunt if you can since they would know who they had do this surgery or diagnosis near you.
So I've had 15 years of venting and reading your history, you keep on you have the right.