Neurologists - Corvallis, OR

"I've been getting toxin injections in my face, head, neck and shoulders for over five years from other neurologists, including at OHSU. My neurologist closed her practice last year and I've been looking for someone who understands chronic migraines from head injuries, hemifacial spasm and dystonia. My husband and I met with her in December and she was compassionate, understanding of my situation and we agreed on the same treatment plan as my other neurologists had provided. Yesterday I had toxin injections and I don't know what personality disorder she has but the doctor who showed up was not the doctor we met in December. She asked me where I was experiencing pain and immediately began dismissing everything I said and finally demanded to know if I wanted her to treat me. I've been excruciating pain for the last six weeks and I just couldn't bear to go home without toxin injections so I said yes. I'm so sorry I did. She refused to do any of the headache points within the hair on my head, the base of my skull or in my neck. She didn't use anywhere near the 1000 units of Dysport she said she'd use in December. She did none of the headache points on my head except for my forehead and a little in the temporalis muscle. She did very little in my face and jaws. Even though in December she agreed to treat around my right ear where I have the excruciating geniculate neuralgia pain, she refused to do any injections near my ear yesterday. I tried to get her to listen to me but she became angry and told me to quit talking. I was crying and using a Kleenex to wipe my nose and she angrily told me to stop touching my face even though she wasn't doing any injections near my nose. She continued berating me when she was finished. I was sobbing when she told me I could make another appointment in 90 days. I reminded her that my insurance would prior authorization treatment every ten weeks and she agreed to that in December. From her response I'm certain she won't request the prior authorization. If she was the only doctor in the region doing toxin injections, I'd never go to her again. The kind, compassionate doctor I met in December wasn't in the building yesterday and the doctor who treated me should never be allowed in a room with patients."

"Doctor canceled our visit three times. Then changed the location to fit his schedule. Once in the office, the doctor talked fast And proceeded to answer the phone in his pocket while talking to my stepdad (Parkinson’s disease). He left the room on the phone and did not return for 15 minutes. Once he came back he told us to get our records from the previous neurologist and return. It took three months to get this kind of treatment. He touched my stepdads feet and checked his hand strength. I don’t understand. What kind of specialist is he!"