five months in on my own wait, two more to go per the last call to check. not asking for sympathy, actually curious what people do in the gap. my GP renewed the same low dose gabapentin she started before the referral even went in, said her hands are kind of tied until the specialist sees me.
so i’m sitting at a 5-6 most days, occasional 7, on a plan that was never meant to be the plan. did anyone push their GP for something different while waiting, or just white-knuckle the same meds until the appointment? did anyone go through urgent care or an ER visit just to get imaging moved up?
i’ve been logging flares with a note on what i was doing that day so i’m not showing up with nothing, but logging isn’t treatment. also curious if the wait itself made anyone’s baseline worse, like the not-fixing-it became its own stressor on top of the pain. trying to figure out if i should be doing something differently or if this is just what the wait looks like for everyone.