Post #17 is for you too but I 'd misspelled your nick and it wouldn't let me post. I posted it, then went to look up how I should have spelled your nick the first time. Sorry.
The doctor that told you to live with the pain is a putz. NO ONE should have to live with that degree of pain!!! I have also been told to see a shrink, that I had a need in me to be weak.
I imagine they will someday see the error of their ways. Even if it is when they are consigned to He!!