Andrew H. Messiha, MD

Excellent Staff, Dr. Messiha is very professional. Explains the procedures thoroughly. Great bedside manner,, very friendly.
Aug 11th, 2022

Dr. Messiha is the worst Doctor that I have ever been to.I read his reviews and decided to give him a tryalthough he would not accept my insurance. I thoughthis fees were fair.  He read my MRI and administeredan epidural .  After he gave me the novocaine    for the epiduraland then administered the cortisone. Once you get the novocaineyou are not supposed to feel the actual injection of cortisone . That did not not happen. I screamed in such pain.  I could not believe that this doctor did not know what he was doing. He told me I would feel better in a few days .That did not happen.  I am still in the same pain that I came there with.DON'T  GO TO DR.  MESSIHA OR YOU WILL BE SORRY    Meryl P
May 23rd, 2022

Ive been using Dr Messihas office for years now and they are very knowledgeable and helpful.
Apr 13th, 2022

What a scum bag!!! I waited 2 1/2 hours in his office!! I asked the receptionist (she) to confirm he will prescribe a medication I already was getting from my old pain doctor. She kept asking the doctor when he peaked his head in the waiting room now and then but he AVOIDED the question. I told her several times as I waited for this prescription was not negotiable, been taking it for a long time and it works. As I waited a friend doctor of his came in and he butted in line to start chatting with the doctor. You could hear the whole conversation. It is a very tiny office. When he finally called me in to see him he acted like he was not asked the question of prescribing the medication I needed. He insulted my intelligence. What a pompous a....  He told me some bs about why he can not prescribe that med after 5 minutes in his office. I left as soon as I heard that. He charged me $1050 for that visit!!! He is a real piece of work!! He is a perfect example of why doctors get a bad rap as being idiots.
Sep 6th, 2022

My experience is much like that described by Jack Frost. My pain management doctor experience dates back to the late 90's when I was a regular patient with a local pain management doctor. Back then we tried a myriad of medications, physical therapy and injections before finding the combination and level that worked consistently. Unfortunately, that doctor retired and sold her practice to another doctor who, more and more, seems to have been to the same seminar as Dr Messiha. At that doctor's initial consult (with the retiring doctor present) the agreement was that I was stable with the regimen we took so long to establish. I had not needed any increase in medication for years and the three of us agreed we would simply continue to stay that course. Within two months, that doctor insisted upon cutting my prescriptions in half and repeating injections we had already tried and failed (I had a terrible reaction to three spinal steroid injections). I searched for a new doctor and found Dr Lido Chen and she had been successfully treating me for several years. Sadly, she also retired (Yeah, I did wonder, "Is it me? Am I just retirement bait?") and Dr Messiha took over her practice this past January. History repeats when he springs on me that he's going to reduce my prescriptions...and so it begins. His reasoning is that my dosage is high and that "studies show no benefit with regard to pain reduction with higher dose medications. They are *actually* less effective and pain increases at high dose." That may be what "studies" show. However, my real and existing life experience shows that to not be the case. Now that I've been through several reductions in medication, my quality of life has plummeted. A year ago I was still in pain but I could function and do things most people simply call "life" - with some planning and rest if I overdid things. For several months now, however, I can do very little more than the bare minimum. I sleep fitfully and for far too long now. I can feel myself again verging on the deep depression I felt that drove me to discuss pain management with my primary care doctor over 25 years ago. Dr Messiha talks a good game about being there if you need anything. Unfortunately, what is lacking is the vital skill that is listening to patients. Instead, he simply will repeat the same prefab phrases a half dozen times throughout patient consultations. It feels like he's a polite bulldozer who will happily talk right over you, ignoring your responses and as a patient one fears they will pay the price by having your wait time for an appointment extended, further and more abrupt cuts in treatment or every other thing you feel he holds the power to do to you so you simply learn to keep quiet. Finally, his office is the only one of all the various doctors my family sees who bills our insurance company extra for in-person visits due to covid health and safety measures. Coincidentally, when the extra charges kicked in this past spring he became much more insistent upon in-office visits and cut out telehealth visits altogether. After asking friends and neighbors about their experience with all of their various doctors and learning he is the exception when it comes to this new "fee" it further dinged my level of satisfaction with Dr Messiha.
Oct 30th, 2021