Re: Anybody ever had a TPI?

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Hi Cyndi,

I have had TPI for my pancreas but not for headaches, although I

know of one woman who has had this done for migraines...I am

not sure how they worked for her.

For me, the injections in the pancreas trigger points were very

painful during the procedure......was painful for the next two days

or so......then settled down to the baseline pain level after that. I

think it took about a month or two to notice a difference. And I

think it was real. The only problem with these, the way my pain

doctor explained it to me, was that with the pancreas, you are not

getting to the underlying cause of the problem so the best you

can hope for is a temporary reduction of the pain level until the

next flare occurs. It will not eliminate the flares but hopefully

make a person more comfortable between flares. In my case,

the first injections did well, the next one not so much. Then I had

to stop because my insurance company wouldn't pay for

them....they are considered experimental, at least with pancreas

trigger points. But I gotta tell you......they made a believer out of

me with the whole " muscle spasm from the pancreas trying to

protect itself " theory........

I guess it is one of those things that may be worth trying once to

see what happens. It is so hard to know when a person is

dealing with ongoing pain from a chronic condition...what is real

cause and effect as far as pain relief and what is just a

coincidence due to random changes in the disease process? I

think that no-one is able to determine that for any one specific

therapy used in treating CP.

Laurie