Dr.Tennant gave me hope when other doctors cast me aside! He literally saved my life when I was ready to give up! More Doctors need to get on board and seek his advice!
Honestly Dr. Tennant is the most knowledgable doctor I have seen when it comes to pain. It's not always about opioids. He is the first doctor I ever hear mentioning neurogenesis.
He’s a pain management hero. Thank you for diagnosing my adhesive arachnoiditis. My primary care doctor refuses to address it even or even look at your book. That’s a whole other video.
So many people have died because you were forced out. Thank you for your kind heart and your dedication to your patience. We had no idea that we were just going to be thrown out into the garbage can like we have been and most are already gone better been around as long as I have. Twenty-year neuropathy and I absolutely can get by on no less than 128 mme and we'll tell it to whoever will listen that the next pill they pull away will be the last pill they pull away. Enjoy your retirement dr. Tennant you certainly deserve it.
IF you’re a Chronic pain patient I don’t know why the daily MME is being applied to you? I know it’s hard to even find a doc to write a script but that daily mme does NOT apply to you
@@alantate25tell that to the doctors. Not all doctors, but also insurance companies and health care systems. They have the doctors hands tied. They (insurance companies/healthcare systems) are too worried about liability. That’s their number one priority, not compassionate patient care.
I've had neuropathy for 11 years and I've seen at least 10 different doctors. Only one tried to figure it out. My third surgery still didn't fix it. Now I'm forced into retirement. I feel for all of you looking for answers.
This Dr.is up and running again. Please don't give up,if your in pain. We are trying to get people who really need it. Also can contact Red Lawhern. Thank you.💜
I've had a spinal fusion at S1/L5 for repeated sciatica events down my left leg. Post op I had a huge amount of nerve inflammation down my left leg. After about 3 months I found myself on about 180mg of Oxycontin, 300mg Lyrica, 20mg Endep living with pain levels of 8. I could hardly sleep due to the intense throbbing pain in my leg in addition to the stabbing/shooting pain in my foot. My life was wrecked in every aspect. The pain got out of control and I went to the ED, the pain doctor placed me on a Ketamine infusion to help calm everything down and to reduce my opiod usage. During the infusion (28mg per hour over 10 days) the Ketamine gave me an intense out of body experience along with the world feeling warped and your mind being stretched in and out in addition to being drunk along with huge amounts of anxiety (this stuff isn't for the faint hearted). During the infusion I could feel and almost isolate my sciatica nerve. It was angry, inflamed and ready to jump out of my leg due to the intense out of body experiance that the Ketamine provides, it was very clear to me and my doctor that my nerve was very inflamed. During this time the doctors reduce my Oxycontin down to 60mg per day (which I wanted as anything higher was going to make me vomit during the infusion). This trigged withdrawal which was somewhat numbed by the long duration of the Ketamine infusion. The doctor also gave me a epidural at S1/L5 with a strong steriod. Post procedure my nerve stung in great pain for about one week. Two weeks after the eppy it didn't seem to make any differnce to my pain levels (at the time). It took another 6 months and my Oxycontin levels increased back to 130mg per day. The doctor (a new pain managment doctor) gave me another more intentse Ketamine infusion (40mg per hour over 4 days) - side effects at this level are super intense! Be warned! This time around, I had no nerve pain. My nerve that was previously jumping out of my leg was now calm (maybe due to healing time and the prior eppy), however, my brain had learnt to expect pain. The Ketamine infusion seem to do a good job of breaking down these learnt pain paths to my brain. The downside was I had fairly bad opiod withdrawal, however the doctor managed to greatly reduce this with a mix of drugs (it was almost like I had no withdrawal at all) 12.5mg Promethazine hydrochloride, 2mg diazepam, 50mcg Clonidine hydrochloride, 10mg metoclopramide hydrochloride, (and Ondansetron on call - if needed) three times a day. I also had bad diarrhea and now wonder if 4mg of loperamide hydrochloride would have slowed down the bowel. My doctor transfered me across to a low dose of methadone 10mg per day (which seems to be way better than Oxycontin for cronic pain), which is about the equalivant of 25mg Oxycontin. My pain levels are 0 to 1 out of 10. The methadone keep my mine clear without all the major opiod side effects. I now have my life back after about 18 months of intense pain. The doctor plans to taper me off the methadone in about 6-8 weeks (as I do have some very minor cronic pain). I expect that I should almost be pain free by then. Lession is consider Ketamine infusion to understand your pain better (what is real and what has been learnt, which is still all real pain) reduce opiod usage and to break learnt pain paths. I hope this helps others. I live in Australia.
Wow, sounds like you have an Amazing pain Doctor that really knows his stuff and cares.. In the USA you can have something as serious as EDS (ehlers-danlos syndrome) and given 50mg morphine equivalent on whatever and left to die in pain, and that's at a pain management clinic was supposed specialist! Others are sent to psychotherapy or given antidepressants told to do yoga even though they can't even get out of bed or go to the bathroom without help.... it's a disgrace to Medicine and Human Rights! The DEA actually made an attack on Dr Tennant's office in Cordova California , this is an honored award-winning doctor with hundreds of published medical journal articles and founder of many scientific breakthroughs in pain management and our corrupt DEA goes to harasses and tries to arrest this man! That's what it looks like over here, the word genocide is being used amongst the community due to so many deaths and suicides... I hope Australia doesn't get invaded by the same PROPagandist anti opioid lobbyist that have the agenda of pushing Suboxone and drug rehabs for pain patients on everyone but must tear down what's left of pain management to get their way. Wanted to add did you get the centralized nervous system pain from an anesthesia complication during surgery? I asked that because there is a condition that develops right after surgery that affects the leg that if not addressed will cause that condition. When I come across the name of it I will leave it in here for you to research
I agree. He's a God send. An angel on earth. Most doctors could care less. In my 6 years of experience. I don't even go anymore. I'll just die from it. I'm worn out. Nobody understands our condition. If I go out, people look at me weird and even ask if I'm alright.
@@elizabethferrari1346 Hang in there, sister. I'm having a hard time myself this morning. Everyday is a challenge. My FAITH in God is what keeps me going. If I didn't HAVE my relationship with JESUS CHRIST I'd be completely lost. Since COVID and the CDC new restrictions on opioid medicine things have only gotten more difficult. I am going to include you in my prayers Today. Elizabeth Ferrari don't quit. God loves you, and that is SOMETHING to rejoice about. Hang in there, sister. Hang in there. 🙏☝✝🛐🕊⚓🔨 📖🗡🙏✝💞
@@elizabethferrari1346 I'm glad to hear that. I truly prayed for you this afternoon, and I will continue to do so. I'm 55, and was a blue collar worker my whole life. I taught break dancing in high school in a Dance Studio. I did Gymnastics, and Karate and kick boxing. Football was my first love. At age 49 I started with the MRIs. 10 MRIs, 7 of my spine. I have 17 herniated discs, with Osteoarthritis. Degenerative joint disease from neck to toes. My feet have plantar fasciitis, hallux ridgidus, metatarsalgia, and I have neuropathy in both legs down to my toes. I have both shoulders with my right, a torn labrum & torn rotator cuff, my left, enlarged shoulder blade and 3 tears. My hands have CMC Grind, bilateral basal joint arthritis. I just ordered two new meta-grip thumb braces today, and I got a new lumbar back brace also. I had to cancel shoulder surgery 2 days before; both legs swelled up out of no where. After months of cardiology and vascular test, it turns out that I have lymphedema. Age, hereditary. You know, it's not the age as much as the wear and tear over the years. Elizabeth, I told my wife, Sara about you, and we will both be praying for you, sister. God BLESS you and keep fighting the good fight of faith. 🙏💞☝🔨📖🗡✝
@Christopher Bellore Thank you my brother. We both have to battle. Thanks for your words of wisdom. I will say a prayer for you as well. God bless us. 🙏 amen
This is what l have had 10 years at a 9 or 10.....put on ope and benzo.. now I'm 65 and total back hip and foot failure to masking pain and failure from failed treatments
Chronic pain for ten years, four back surgeries, three of which were fusions and one redo. With severe neuropathy. Take meds, nothing excessive, and got a spinal stimulator 2yrs ago. It’s a little better but I’m in pain 24/7 with depression, fatigue and the like. I’m now to the point where I stay in bed, 59yrs old. Help.
Insane! I've been suffering 18yrs begging numerous so-called pain specialists for help while my pain gets more centralized and my general health falling behind!! I had to retire two years ago! Basically accepting that I'd eventually have to suicide! Sooner than later! I almost didn't watch this!? Do I dare hope? Where can I find a physician who understands this? This is at this point life or death!
I'm very sorry to hear about your situation I'm in about the same boat because the next pill they take away I'm dead. Anyway in answer to your question I don't believe there's any doctors left like dr. Tennant because they used him as the example for all the others and they're scared as hell. You always thinking of a doctor as having some kind of conscience or at the very least having some higher ability to confront the government. All they would have needed was a union and they could have had that within two weeks. Two days walk out and this would have all been over. But no I guess they weren't as smart as a group as I thought they were. Enjoy your retirement doctor tenant you deserve it.
This dx has saved me from insanity, although this pain may just take me there anyway. After several hospitalizations, a nurse just casually dropped this title on me. Ugh. But knowing helps so much. Oxy not enough
maybe I have not found it yet but I'm not hearing much from the people sufferings, from the pain, even though it is looking good what your doing here, however there needs to be one's that speak in behalf of the pain itself, not just the one's trying to understand it. now, I know you know this, and you are really trying to be a corrective force thank god, but the real experts on pain and suffering, ARE US!, we live it every day, in are own very unique way, and we have little say in it, we just have to keep coping no matter how hard we wish we could just stop it! and at the same time, have to deal with a society of healthy people thinking they understand what's best for us!. it reminds me of a move called the {Guardian} were there was a seen with Keven Costner, teaching the USCG class about "hypothermia", the commander ask him "what are you doing with the class, you were just to tech by the class standard of instruction (books and talk) to teach them about hypothermia", meanwhile the class under his control was in a TUB! of ICE WATER !!!, he looks at the commander and says "in about 2 mints they'll understand it!." if you do not keep this in mind every step of the way, you will miss your high mark. we are the most important part of pain, we are the ones bleeding out, with invisible blood, and yes some have payed the highest price, as they have lost there battle with it, good people that never did anything wrong other then be inflicted with ill health or injury, just wanting to live there life the best they could, I implore you to never forget this. it was once said that society will be judged on how they treat the, elderly, disabled, and infirmed, currently it's not looking very good. but with that aside, may the creator of all beginnings support your good intentions.
If you have central pain, you could try this supplement: human growth hormon precursor( neurogenesis) from the excellent site anastore.com : en.anastore.com/articles/BG10_precursor_gh.php
Is this doctor or anyone like him still practicing I have had chronic pain in my shoulder where I broke it 11 years ago fortunately I didn't have to have surgery but I have so much scar tissue and fluid that runs down to my wrist also my neck hurts so bad and my knees I have arthritis now. Pain level is always from an 8 to 10 every day for 11 years some days it's been so bad I have really thought about suicide but I could not do that to my children so I just keep living in pain and praying that God will help me or send me someone to help me I'm at my wit's end. If anyone has an answer for me please help me I beg of you
what do you mean profits over everything? doctors who think opiates for a patient is needed are still afraid to prescribe its because of the government........ doctors wanna treat pain they are not looking for profit. of course doctors wanna get paid they do not work for free.
Dr.Tennant gave me hope when other doctors cast me aside! He literally saved my life when I was ready to give up! More Doctors need to get on board and seek his advice!
Honestly Dr. Tennant is the most knowledgable doctor I have seen when it comes to pain. It's not always about opioids. He is the first doctor I ever hear mentioning neurogenesis.
He’s a pain management hero.
Thank you for diagnosing my adhesive arachnoiditis.
My primary care doctor refuses to address it even or even look at your book.
That’s a whole other video.
I was hoping to see him for treatment when they took him out. What a sad ending to a great man who sought to end suffering for so many. God Bless him!
He's still practicing in a way, as my dad is a current patient of his in San Diego, CA. He's life saving.
So many people have died because you were forced out. Thank you for your kind heart and your dedication to your patience. We had no idea that we were just going to be thrown out into the garbage can like we have been and most are already gone better been around as long as I have. Twenty-year neuropathy and I absolutely can get by on no less than 128 mme and we'll tell it to whoever will listen that the next pill they pull away will be the last pill they pull away. Enjoy your retirement dr. Tennant you certainly deserve it.
IF you’re a Chronic pain patient I don’t know why the daily MME is being applied to you? I know it’s hard to even find a doc to write a script but that daily mme does NOT apply to you
@@alantate25tell that to the doctors. Not all doctors, but also insurance companies and health care systems. They have the doctors hands tied. They (insurance companies/healthcare systems) are too worried about liability. That’s their number one priority, not compassionate patient care.
This dr is what we need more off!!! Experienced, sensible, truth telling and get to point kind of physician!
I've had neuropathy for 11 years and I've seen at least 10 different doctors. Only one tried to figure it out. My third surgery still didn't fix it. Now I'm forced into retirement. I feel for all of you looking for answers.
Thank you Dr. Tennant for helping improve healthcare for Rural Communities across America!
This Dr.is up and running again.
Please don't give up,if your in pain.
We are trying to get people who really need it. Also can contact
Red Lawhern. Thank you.💜
Dr. Tenant is brilliant!
I feel like everything he is saying I'm going through
I've had a spinal fusion at S1/L5 for repeated sciatica events down my left leg. Post op I had a huge amount of nerve inflammation down my left leg.
After about 3 months I found myself on about 180mg of Oxycontin, 300mg Lyrica, 20mg Endep living with pain levels of 8. I could hardly sleep due to the intense throbbing pain in my leg in addition to the stabbing/shooting pain in my foot. My life was wrecked in every aspect.
The pain got out of control and I went to the ED, the pain doctor placed me on a Ketamine infusion to help calm everything down and to reduce my opiod usage. During the infusion (28mg per hour over 10 days) the Ketamine gave me an intense out of body experience along with the world feeling warped and your mind being stretched in and out in addition to being drunk along with huge amounts of anxiety (this stuff isn't for the faint hearted).
During the infusion I could feel and almost isolate my sciatica nerve. It was angry, inflamed and ready to jump out of my leg due to the intense out of body experiance that the Ketamine provides, it was very clear to me and my doctor that my nerve was very inflamed.
During this time the doctors reduce my Oxycontin down to 60mg per day (which I wanted as anything higher was going to make me vomit during the infusion). This trigged withdrawal which was somewhat numbed by the long duration of the Ketamine infusion.
The doctor also gave me a epidural at S1/L5 with a strong steriod. Post procedure my nerve stung in great pain for about one week. Two weeks after the eppy it didn't seem to make any differnce to my pain levels (at the time).
It took another 6 months and my Oxycontin levels increased back to 130mg per day. The doctor (a new pain managment doctor) gave me another more intentse Ketamine infusion (40mg per hour over 4 days) - side effects at this level are super intense! Be warned! This time around, I had no nerve pain. My nerve that was previously jumping out of my leg was now calm (maybe due to healing time and the prior eppy), however, my brain had learnt to expect pain. The Ketamine infusion seem to do a good job of breaking down these learnt pain paths to my brain.
The downside was I had fairly bad opiod withdrawal, however the doctor managed to greatly reduce this with a mix of drugs (it was almost like I had no withdrawal at all) 12.5mg Promethazine hydrochloride, 2mg diazepam, 50mcg Clonidine hydrochloride, 10mg metoclopramide hydrochloride, (and Ondansetron on call - if needed) three times a day. I also had bad diarrhea and now wonder if 4mg of loperamide hydrochloride would have slowed down the bowel.
My doctor transfered me across to a low dose of methadone 10mg per day (which seems to be way better than Oxycontin for cronic pain), which is about the equalivant of 25mg Oxycontin. My pain levels are 0 to 1 out of 10. The methadone keep my mine clear without all the major opiod side effects. I now have my life back after about 18 months of intense pain.
The doctor plans to taper me off the methadone in about 6-8 weeks (as I do have some very minor cronic pain). I expect that I should almost be pain free by then.
Lession is consider Ketamine infusion to understand your pain better (what is real and what has been learnt, which is still all real pain) reduce opiod usage and to break learnt pain paths.
I hope this helps others. I live in Australia.
Wow, sounds like you have an Amazing pain Doctor that really knows his stuff and cares.. In the USA you can have something as serious as EDS (ehlers-danlos syndrome) and given 50mg morphine equivalent on whatever and left to die in pain, and that's at a pain management clinic was supposed specialist! Others are sent to psychotherapy or given antidepressants told to do yoga even though they can't even get out of bed or go to the bathroom without help.... it's a disgrace to Medicine and Human Rights! The DEA actually made an attack on Dr Tennant's office in Cordova California , this is an honored award-winning doctor with hundreds of published medical journal articles and founder of many scientific breakthroughs in pain management and our corrupt DEA goes to harasses and tries to arrest this man! That's what it looks like over here, the word genocide is being used amongst the community due to so many deaths and suicides... I hope Australia doesn't get invaded by the same PROPagandist anti opioid lobbyist that have the agenda of pushing Suboxone and drug rehabs for pain patients on everyone but must tear down what's left of pain management to get their way.
Wanted to add did you get the centralized nervous system pain from an anesthesia complication during surgery? I asked that because there is a condition that develops right after surgery that affects the leg that if not addressed will cause that condition. When I come across the name of it I will leave it in here for you to research
Hi brad... May I know the specialist name pls.. suffering a lot with chronic back pain due to spinal arthritis
I wish Forest Tennant was my Doctor.
I agree. He's a God send. An angel on earth. Most doctors could care less. In my 6 years of experience. I don't even go anymore. I'll just die from it. I'm worn out. Nobody understands our condition. If I go out, people look at me weird and even ask if I'm alright.
@@elizabethferrari1346
Hang in there, sister.
I'm having a hard time myself this morning. Everyday is a challenge.
My FAITH in God is what keeps me going. If I didn't HAVE my relationship with JESUS CHRIST I'd be completely lost.
Since COVID and the CDC new restrictions on opioid medicine things have only gotten more difficult.
I am going to include you in my prayers Today.
Elizabeth Ferrari don't quit.
God loves you, and that is SOMETHING to rejoice about. Hang in there, sister.
Hang in there. 🙏☝✝🛐🕊⚓🔨 📖🗡🙏✝💞
@Christopher Bellore I'm still going to battle it. I'm 53. I don't use opiods. God bless you brother. 🙏
@@elizabethferrari1346
I'm glad to hear that.
I truly prayed for you this afternoon, and I will continue to do so.
I'm 55, and was a blue collar worker my whole life.
I taught break dancing in high school in a Dance Studio. I did Gymnastics, and Karate and kick boxing.
Football was my first love.
At age 49 I started with the MRIs. 10 MRIs, 7 of my spine. I have 17 herniated discs, with Osteoarthritis.
Degenerative joint disease from neck to toes. My feet have plantar fasciitis, hallux ridgidus, metatarsalgia, and I have neuropathy in both legs down to my toes.
I have both shoulders with my right, a torn labrum & torn rotator cuff, my left, enlarged shoulder blade and 3 tears. My hands have CMC Grind, bilateral basal joint arthritis. I just ordered two new meta-grip thumb braces today, and I got a new lumbar back brace also.
I had to cancel shoulder surgery 2 days before; both legs swelled up out of no where. After months of cardiology and vascular test, it turns out that I have lymphedema. Age, hereditary.
You know, it's not the age as much as the wear and tear over the years.
Elizabeth, I told my wife, Sara about you, and we will both be praying for you, sister. God BLESS you and keep fighting the good fight of faith. 🙏💞☝🔨📖🗡✝
@Christopher Bellore Thank you my brother. We both have to battle. Thanks for your words of wisdom. I will say a prayer for you as well. God bless us. 🙏 amen
Tylenol is the number one leading cause of liver damage in America!
Yes! Thank you!
This is what l have had 10 years at a 9 or 10.....put on ope and benzo.. now I'm 65 and total back hip and foot failure to masking pain and failure from failed treatments
Chronic pain for ten years, four back surgeries, three of which were fusions and one redo. With severe neuropathy. Take meds, nothing excessive, and got a spinal stimulator 2yrs ago. It’s a little better but I’m in pain 24/7 with depression, fatigue and the like. I’m now to the point where I stay in bed, 59yrs old. Help.
Insane! I've been suffering 18yrs begging numerous so-called pain specialists for help while my pain gets more centralized and my general health falling behind!!
I had to retire two years ago! Basically accepting that I'd eventually have to suicide! Sooner than later! I almost didn't watch this!? Do I dare hope? Where can I find a physician who understands this? This is at this point life or death!
I'm very sorry to hear about your situation I'm in about the same boat because the next pill they take away I'm dead. Anyway in answer to your question I don't believe there's any doctors left like dr. Tennant because they used him as the example for all the others and they're scared as hell. You always thinking of a doctor as having some kind of conscience or at the very least having some higher ability to confront the government. All they would have needed was a union and they could have had that within two weeks. Two days walk out and this would have all been over. But no I guess they weren't as smart as a group as I thought they were. Enjoy your retirement doctor tenant you deserve it.
@@neatstuff8200 I was forced to give up my illusions about doctors over the last twenty years! And the law, and finally, society! 🤭🤭🤭
This dx has saved me from insanity, although this pain may just take me there anyway. After several hospitalizations, a nurse just casually dropped this title on me. Ugh. But knowing helps so much. Oxy not enough
I am wondering if anyone took over your practice? I need help.
excellent information. the jazzy music is distracting to someone with a hearing problem.
What? Turn on CC
Came to say this too
Distracting music!
maybe I have not found it yet but I'm not hearing much from the people sufferings, from the pain, even though it is looking good what your doing here, however there needs to be one's that speak in behalf of the pain itself, not just the one's trying to understand it. now, I know you know this, and you are really trying to be a corrective force thank god, but the real experts on pain and suffering, ARE US!, we live it every day, in are own very unique way, and we have little say in it, we just have to keep coping no matter how hard we wish we could just stop it! and at the same time, have to deal with a society of healthy people thinking they understand what's best for us!. it reminds me of a move called the {Guardian} were there was a seen with Keven Costner, teaching the USCG class about "hypothermia", the commander ask him "what are you doing with the class, you were just to tech by the class standard of instruction (books and talk) to teach them about hypothermia", meanwhile the class under his control was in a TUB! of ICE WATER !!!, he looks at the commander and says "in about 2 mints they'll understand it!." if you do not keep this in mind every step of the way, you will miss your high mark. we are the most important part of pain, we are the ones bleeding out, with invisible blood, and yes some have payed the highest price, as they have lost there battle with it, good people that never did anything wrong other then be inflicted with ill health or injury, just wanting to live there life the best they could, I implore you to never forget this. it was once said that society will be judged on how they treat the, elderly, disabled, and infirmed, currently it's not looking very good. but with that aside, may the creator of all beginnings support your good intentions.
If you have central pain, you could try this supplement: human growth hormon precursor( neurogenesis) from the excellent site anastore.com : en.anastore.com/articles/BG10_precursor_gh.php
Is this doctor or anyone like him still practicing I have had chronic pain in my shoulder where I broke it 11 years ago fortunately I didn't have to have surgery but I have so much scar tissue and fluid that runs down to my wrist also my neck hurts so bad and my knees I have arthritis now. Pain level is always from an 8 to 10 every day for 11 years some days it's been so bad I have really thought about suicide but I could not do that to my children so I just keep living in pain and praying that God will help me or send me someone to help me I'm at my wit's end. If anyone has an answer for me please help me I beg of you
I'll pray for you. Beth
Hero❤
I want to try hormone therapy!!!
Valproic acid caused neuro inflammation and gaba receptor damage.
That's Depakote, right?
If it is, NOW I FINALLY know what went wrong! Than u.
I believe i had this
Profits over everything
what do you mean profits over everything? doctors who think opiates for a patient is needed are still afraid to prescribe its because of the government........ doctors wanna treat pain they are not looking for profit. of course doctors wanna get paid they do not work for free.
@@nicecutie there is nothing more profitable than treating the symptoms of pain
Addressing and curing the pain is not profitable