I believe that each patient has his or her own anatomy and injections aren’t a guaranteed“fix”. If you have faith in your doc’s judgment that’s a good start.
I have had neck pain that was diagnosed by a major medical center physiatrist to be cervical spine caused, but it was not relieved by medial branch and facet joint injections at every level - even C 1-2 done by a different doc. Many docs won’t get close to C1.
I have since acquired lumbar pain and recently received an epidural steroid injection (ESI) at L5-S1 and oddly enough it has had some effect on the neck pain as well as the lumbar pain.
So, should I have maybe received cervical ESI injections instead of facet joint and medial branch injections? Who knows?
My point is that there are different types of steroid injections and the effectiveness may depend on each patient’s individual need and how your body may respond. We’re not medical professionals. I’m an educator. We take our doc’s advice but there are no guarantees.
You can find others’ experiences here but we are each unique and our own body may respond differently.