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Facet Joint Injections - Anyone had success?
Spine Health | Last Active: May 7 1:35pm | Replies (135)Comment receiving replies
I am scheduled to have cervical spine facet joint injections in mid-January.
This is my first attempt at any invasive procedure to help my neck pain, other than dry needling during PT and acupuncture.
I’m a bit apprehensive about starting this.
I wonder if anyone else has had these injections and did they help, not help, or make your neck pain worse? Would love to hear that many of you with neck pain have been helped.
I have arthritis, bones spurs and various other DDD (degenerative disc disorder) problems going on all along my spine but have been able to help myself improve with continuing PT exercises and core strengthening for the lower back.
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I had injections in lower back like you are talking about. They were extremely painful and I got absolutely no pain relief. Just me🤷
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I had an injection on the eft side of my neck guided by imaging in a doctor's office in January 2021. It was a painful injection but it did help. The pain pretty much disappeared for a long time. I do get a headache on the left side of the head above the ear once in a while. I have stenosis in the cervical spine. Be careful doing neck exercises, you can aggravate the situation. I have pain in my lower back. I've had injections in the facet joints, both sides on two occasions. The second time they did not help. So, I tried RFA (radio frequency ablation) I think that made the pain a little worse. I'm going to try an epidural injection guided by imaging, next Monday for the lower back and the right foot.pain.