The Pain Treatment Center of Greater Washington

Like many of the other reviewers all I can say is that Dr. Wasserman saved my life! When I met him, I was in the depths of a multi-year depression due to the fact that I had had severe pain since I was 18 years old. I was at a point where I was thinking a lot about ending it all, and I walked into the group practice of my neurologist without an appointment, and in tears. Dr. Wasserman at that time was new to the practice and he saw me, and he told me that I had already tried all the other alternative the treatments that there were to try. He told me that I needed to undertake being on opiate medicine 24/7 for the rest of my life. He told me that I needed pain medicine in the way that a heart patient would need medicine, and that was not easy advice to swallow. I have been a patient of Dr. Wasserman's for about twenty years now, and we have been down a long road together. I did not easily accept the opiate therapy and I went off to other doctors to get detoxed twice. When I found the resultant pain unbearable. Dr. Wasserman accepted me back and started working with me again. Together, we have gone through OxyContin (which at the time was the only effective medicine available,) methadone, and finally Suboxone. In addition to treating my pain, Dr. Wasserman has treated my sleep disorder, and he was the only doctor to ever be successful in treating my depression as well. I also have chronic fatigue syndrome and he is willing to treat me for that also. When I go to see him for an appointment, we have to interact in a ritualistic way due to the requirements of the various agencies that oversee his practice. He asks me about my pain level, both right now and on average, he asked how I in eating and sleeping and about my mood. He also asked a number of other questions and although it irritated me at first, now I don't mind the fact that they are always the same questions. He has given me diet advice and he is concerned about the amount of exercise I get and what kind of exercise it is. He takes meticulous notes on my condition, and he is able to quote back to me what I told him in previous sessions. I have ups and downs both in pain and other aspects of my health, and he has taught me patience because when I have a down period It always passes. If you say a negative review, there is a possibility that it was written by a disgruntled addict who entered his practice demanding opiates and did not get them. Now, he prescribes Suboxone for pain for almost all of his patients, so please do not expect to go in to see him and get OxyContin. Believe me, if you are really in pain, Suboxone is the superior drug.