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Wish me luck, tomorrow I am going in for multiple spinal injections.
I will be sedated YAY, and will have mulitple facet spinal injections, sacroilliac injections, and an epidural, all of pain killers and cortisone. The injections have to be guided through a fluoroscope ( a type of real time x-ray). Basically I have so many problems that were found in my last MRI, they're just going to do everything. Although that takes the least time and costs less, they won't have any idea which injections were necessary and which worked, which didn't. Hey, why not?
But that may not matter since the chances of success is usually only around 30%. If successful, pain relief may only last a week, can't be done more than 3 times a year and ultimately will destroy the cartillage in the area.
I had injections last year and I had a bad reaction, the pain got worse, not better, this happens. But they want to go whole hog this time.
My pain will increase for several days before it starts to get better, if it gets better. So, micromass will be my backup for the next few days if I can't sit up. (note to self, remind micro)
I will be sedated YAY, and will have mulitple facet spinal injections, sacroilliac injections, and an epidural, all of pain killers and cortisone. The injections have to be guided through a fluoroscope ( a type of real time x-ray). Basically I have so many problems that were found in my last MRI, they're just going to do everything. Although that takes the least time and costs less, they won't have any idea which injections were necessary and which worked, which didn't. Hey, why not?
But that may not matter since the chances of success is usually only around 30%. If successful, pain relief may only last a week, can't be done more than 3 times a year and ultimately will destroy the cartillage in the area.
I had injections last year and I had a bad reaction, the pain got worse, not better, this happens. But they want to go whole hog this time.
My pain will increase for several days before it starts to get better, if it gets better. So, micromass will be my backup for the next few days if I can't sit up. (note to self, remind micro)