Nancy, please tell how injection went last month.

[ksopll]

Hi Nancy,
I had my two thoracic interlamina steriod injections at t5 last month.
The last one was 2/22/10. I think they helped in the area some of the
symptoms to not be near as frequent. Unfortuanalty, since I have
problems at every level to some degree, I am not nearly pain free. I
talked to my regular GP doctor today. I told him about the incident
with such pain when trying to clean a rug last week that I struggled
to breath and had to sit down. He did a thoracic xray just to make
sure I didn't fracture a vertebra. I hadn't. I ask him if he knew If
I could get more steriod injections. He says they usually just do a
series of three every so often, so I probably wont be getting any more
of those for a while, but he said that the Pain Management Specialist
that did my injection could do some other things including a nerve
block. I guess I need to get back into my Pain Management Specialist
and see what he can do for me now.
Hey everyone, while I was at my GP today, I told him that I had met 8
others on the internet that have opll. And the thing we have the most
in common was above normal triglycerides. He said many people have
that problem, it's common. I didn't know it was this common myself.
I 'm curious to hear about your epideral cervical spine injection.
Please update us. Thanks
Pam aka Ksopll

[mcin...@earthlink.net]

OK. I had a bad experience with my injections. The first time she injected the dye it cause a weird feeling in my lower back. She said I had grown a new set of nerves (due to my previous surgery)that didn't go in a typical direction. Her second attempt was into my scar, which has to much scar tissue to use as a injections site. She was successful the third attempt but she had to go in from the right side with a larger needle to hit nerves on the left side. The next day I woke up in a terrible steroid flare! It took several weeks for the pain to return to my usual pain level.
I am going for a medial branch diagnostic block on March 15. If the block works I am considering RF nerve Abalation next. It seems I will try anything to avoid going under the knife again. If I can get by until next November, I will have disability insurance that will cover my pre existing condition then I can go back to a NS to see what is next.
Currently I am having a terrible flare of my hip and lateral foot arthritis along with my usual back, shoulder, hand pain and tingling. Has anyone has Tendonitis like pain in their foot? I love my job but it is getting incredibly difficultly to come and do this daily. Sorry to be such a downer but I am having a bad day.
Nancy