I'm going to just jump right in by stating that I have HAE, RA, Sciatica, Severe Muscle Spasms, Nerve Demyelination and a couple other things, one which i've been recently told is Stiff person syndrome. So my pain has for years been a type of uncontrollable, indescribable pain since my teenage years.In my 20s I was told to start trying herbs, vitamins or otc pain meds to control my pain because being young with Nerve Dem. If I started pills they would no longer work or work as well by the time I was older adult, and of course I listened to the doctors advice and never questioned it.A couple years ago I was hospitalized with some of the worst pain I've had in my life and my 40+yr old a** was over it, I'd had enough of the pain bs and listening to someone that didn't feel any of my pain keep saying suck it up, so I started looking for relief..oh boy, well now that was a whole other problem! It seems like the only thing that did was make things worst because now the doctors that I that would be around to help later in my life can no longer provide the help I needed because of a Epedemic I had NO f**king part of..The trust I had for those doctors was now gone and I'd promised myself that I would never let another one tell me to hold out on pain relief ever again.. I did everything right but once I couldn't deal with the pain anymore, I had the problem of looking like the infamous "DRUG SEEKER" if I said no to steroid and other bs treatments..So then someone told me about the site(docmj.com) and I immediately started my research. After almost 2 yrs I decided to give them a try, and that was the best decision I've ever made. After years of miserable, exhausting, debilitating pain and dealing with a deteriorating body, I finally had doctors that took time to actually listened, answered questions and spoke to me in a none rushed and respectable manner. I actually cried like a baby after my first appointment because I was some happy that I was finally going to have a break from all the pain.Dr. Rose was my first dr after which he left and I saw Dr. Trimal. Then I moved and started to see my most recent dr, Dr Fidel. whom I've got lucky enough to be able to see my last 2 visits.. Let me say this loudly for the people in the back, every one of these doctors have been amazing, everyone of them has made me feel super comfortable, respected and happy to work with them..They have been amazing. I am a person of color which already makes it 2x's hard to get the treatment (meds) I needed on top of everything else my pain level and tattoos didn't help the stereotype in the eyes of conventional treatment doctors..I am truly lucky to be apart of this docmj family for now almost 3 yrs!!!!!Pain centers and their doctors should be ashamed of themselves for trying to tell severe pain patients that steroid injections, numbing injections that wear off I a day or two and over the counter meds are their only option..none of those will ever equal 2 puffs of a vape pen or blunt, 1 gummy of even a 1/2 a tiny square from a thc chocolate bar..You pain centers remember "WE ARE NOT ALL AN EPEDEMIC". Some of us really did need you..Doc mj, you guys are the best and I will always be apart of the family Thank you so much DR. ROSE, DR. FIDEL and DR. TRIMAL read more