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Anyone had an ablation for lower back pain

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@mic1953

I have had bilateral ablations in both my lumbar and thoracic spine. The trial nerve blocks worked, but the ablations didn’t. It caused a lot of frustration, to say the least.

My pain was just replaced with a burning pain which lasted quite a while. I guess at least, it took my mind off from my original pain.

I would never do it again.

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mic1953 | @mic1953 | May 10 4:01pm

My primary care provider suggested I try duloxitine, so I did. It’s actually an antidepressant but they discovered it actually helps with chronic pain. I only took 20 mg at first and after the first week it helped me immensely.

After about three weeks, it wasn’t giving me the relief it did, so we upped it to 30 mg.

I have to say things are not perfect, as I still get osteoarthritis flareups with weather changes, but it’s manageable with Tylenol 8 hr Arthritis and Aleve.

I hesitate to take more with all I have heard about getting off it. It’s scary.

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