I woke up with a sudden, excruciating pain in my left shin. The pain lasted 5-6 seconds. It was located where I was cut with a chainsaw 21 years prior, and it had cut into the bone. This pain happened 6 times within 45 minutes. It happened again that evening. It then happened in the evening two days later. It did not matter if I was sitting, standing, walking or laying down. I could not make it happen. I went to the ER where they took xrays of my shin & of my lower back (to rule out a pinched nerve). They could not find a cause. They sent me to an orthopedic. They too could not find a cause. The orthopedic ordered an MRI. My insurance turned them down because I had not had physical therapy (how do you get PT when you don t even have a diagnosis??) My primary care physician refuses to see me - says I need to follow up with the ortho. I need a diagnosis. Would not have wasted my time giving you all of this information had I known you were going to charge for it. You should have shown some integrity and told me that up front.