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Burning nerve pain following severe trauma to foot/ankle
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Can you explain just what it means to have blockers placed in neck/lower back?
I have spinal stenosis and issue in lumbar area of spine, so when pain management doctor recommended injection into the spine, I turned it down. His thoughts included that such a procedure would take care of leg/foot/ankle nerve pain. What the referring neurologist had indicated in the referral sheet was a sympathetic nerve block and when I told him the PM doctor's plan, he agreed with me about not having spinal injection. Unfortunately, the only other PM doctor that is highly recommended is at considerable driving distance, so I cannot go there. So please expand my knowledge, which I'd appreciate. If indeed it can last at least 12 months, I'd consider what you had done. I've had injections (2) into both sides of ankle, and it did barely nothing. Pain was excruciating when anesthetic wore off.
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Hi there. I was with you on this and said to the pain specialist…what is the point of it only last a few months. He said one of his clients with blockers lasted a couple of years. I also had your experience with my big toes but with quarterzone inj and it hurt like hell and a total waste of time. They put me under anaesthetic in hospital. He explained it is sort of like a quarterzone / deadened into the area. They work out if it has done the job .. because if you are still in pain slightly near where they have …then they know what they are working with the next time the go in. I can tell you I was a completely different person ….and only until then did I get what to doctor was saying.
It is so worth it because as he said you don’t realise how much pain you become used to …until you don’t have it. It’s heaven. There is another person here in this forum that was saying they don’t get put under just get done in docs rooms. I dont have a good pain tolerance for needles.