PRP procedure in SI joints

I paid $1700 for PRP and anesthesia. I’m in the Atlanta, GA area. While I’m in worse pain than before, my pain doctor told me to not give up on the procedure yet. Hopefully it will work. As there’s not a whole lot that will help, if you can afford the PRP procedure it’s worth a try. I read it was 70% effective but it didn’t state the SI joints specifically. The steroid shots do nothing for me and the Oxycodone I was taking for years just stopped working. Apparently people get PRP injections in their scalp (for more hair growth). I read that it caused some hair loss but that the hair grew back stronger. I mention that because I noticed more hair on my brush than normal so I looked it up. While the shot was for the SI joints and not on the scalp, IMO wherever you get the shot it will go into your blood system. I hope it works for you. Please let me know your progress.

I've been having shots for SI joint pain for at least 2 years. Sometimes it works for 3-4 months and sometimes it does not. I haven' figured out if it is because a different doctor did some of the shots. I had a shot 2 weeks ago, same doc as last time 4 months ago, and thought there was relief, but when I tried walking for more than 2 blocks, the pain was still there. I'm the same age as you are, 83 on the 15th of Feb. I had gotten my walking up to almost 2 miles a day but now with the pain, I'm back to only being able to go for about 1/2 a mile.

Sometimes I find that if I bend over from the waist and just hang there for about 30 seconds, when I rise up I can walk some more before the pain begins again. After the last shot I asked the doc if there is anything else that can be done and he said that an ortho doc could fuse the joint. Apparently it isn't as debiliting as fusing a spinal joint. I'm still on the fence about whether or not to look into this further. Susan

@sussaw
I had a spinal fusion in 2004, L5-S1. Good for years u til about 2919 when I started having sciatica and SI joint pain on both sides. I’ve been having steroid injections usually every 6 months, but also had one SI joint injection on the right which helped but then one on the left which didn’t. So Medicare will ni5 pay for another. My SI joint pain on the left is absolutely horrible, most mornings pain is so bad can hardly walk at first. I use Voltaran, it seems to help for a short time. I also still have sciatica and pain on the side of the knee. I can walk; try to every other day 4.2-4.5 mikes at a 15.3 pace. The SI joint is ok when I walk, it’s later that’s bad, and almost at the end of my walk I feel like a knife is slicing into my lower back and I do have disc issue now L4-5. I asked my neurosurgeon who did my fusion if there was SI joint surgery, he said there is but it’s not successful. He was at Mayo. Now I read they do the surgery in Rochester and Jacksonville. I live in AZ. I’m not supposed to take Naproxen, I do at times but only marginally helps. The pain is so bad later in the day that at times I have to ease onto the couch and, and practically scream. SI joint pain is the worst, I’ve tried PT too, worthless.