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Cervical facet joint nerve RFA

Spine Health | Last Active: Aug 28, 2023 | Replies (5)

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Has anyone else has this outcome? I am soon getting a second trial lidocaine injection in C3,4,5,6 with ablation later if the second injection helps even briefly. The first trial injection did help for about an hour but then I had worse pain. A dexamethasone pack helped relieve the worse pain.
What are others’ experiences with cervical RFA?
Gabapentin does not work for me and gave me blurred vision.

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I already had a C5-6-7 fusion a couple years ago that didn't help my pain and then they told me about doing this RFA ablation and because I've had one on my heart I thought it would be no big deal but this is beyond any pain ... it's just unbelievable. I wouldn't do this again. And then my husband came down with something I don't know if it's covid or the flu or what but I got it last night and I've been up all night in absolute headache hell from that and can't breathe on top of everything else so no I'm just I am so done. Wednesday they did a blood patch in case I have a CSF leak but I can't even tell if it helped at all because I'm in so much pain from this rfa.