Hello RM Brooks, Thank you for the information about your experience with trigger point injections. If they work at all giving me some pain relief for a time, it will be worth trying them. I just hope they don't cause more permanent damage to deal with. My first laminectomy and fusion was for multiple spinal problems along with unstable scoliosis in my lumbar spine. It took a year of trying to heal until sciatica hit in my left leg along with lucencies around the screws (pseudoarthrosis). I scheduled a second surgery to replace screws with larger ones, move up a few more vertebrae, remove a hemorrhagic cyst on nerve at L5 and down through the pelvis. The third surgery was to redo the cervical spine C3- T1 and go up more thoracic vertebrae. With all this surgery, I'm still in severe pain now in the few thoracic vertebrae left without fusion surgery. I can understand why you are hesitant to have any more surgery done. In my situation, it only increased the area experiencing pain. There is not much left to be done except the spinal cord stimulation that might stop the pain and with as much as I've heard about the failure rate and complications of that procedure, it's not even a choice I would consider. I wish you the very best of luck whatever you decide to do. Again, thank you for the good news (however temporary) about the trigger point procedure.