Re: Trigger Point Injection Question

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WOW!! They should ALWAYS be guided by X-Ray when working on your back area.

OUCH!

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Trigger Point Injection Question

Hi to all, and Happy New Year and may our health GET BETTER!!!???

I have a question, I had a trigger point injection Dec 20 - in sacrum -coccyx

area(oops spelling).

I had mild relief for about 3 hours. Then the pain returned.... does it finally

settle down?

In the past week this pain I have had in this area following an injury has got

soooo BAD.

Could it be remotely possible that this injection has made it worse? - or is

this common?

The Doctor put the injection in at site of pain, then kinda moved the injection

around 360 degrees, while still in the spot.

I am seeing this Doctor again in about 10 days and he said if it didn't worked

ie 12/20 then he would do it by guided X-Ray?.

I am just so scared that if I go ahead with this option, I might be worse again?

Any thoughts to this and has anyone experienced this happening, it is getting

worse, I am talking nearly calling 911 - but what can they do.

Thanks in advance - for any advice or thoughts

[Guest guest]

You say the pain is worse? Is it the same pain only worse or a different pain?

What is going on in that area that is causing you problems that you were willing

to let them do an injection?

FIND ANOTHER DOCTOR. They should NEVER EVER do injections without fluroscopy.

They could puncture your dura doing that crap and you could wind up with

arachnoiditis and that is something you do NOT want to have.

Good luck and I hope you feel better soon.

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> Hi to all, and Happy New Year and may our health GET BETTER!!!???

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> I have a question, I had a trigger point injection Dec 20 - in sacrum -coccyx

area(oops spelling).

> I had mild relief for about 3 hours. Then the pain returned.... does it

finally settle down?

> In the past week this pain I have had in this area following an injury has got

soooo BAD.

> Could it be remotely possible that this injection has made it worse? - or is

this common?

> The Doctor put the injection in at site of pain, then kinda moved the

injection around 360 degrees, while still in the spot.

> I am seeing this Doctor again in about 10 days and he said if it didn't worked

ie 12/20 then he would do it by guided X-Ray?.

> I am just so scared that if I go ahead with this option, I might be worse

again?

> Any thoughts to this and has anyone experienced this happening, it is getting

worse, I am talking nearly calling 911 - but what can they do.

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> Thanks in advance - for any advice or thoughts

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I would be on the phone with that doctor telling him how much worse you feel and

asking him what HE is going to do about it!!!! The only injection I have EVER

allowed anyone to do on me was a SI Joint Injection and it hurt me for days.

Needless to say I didn't let them do it again because when the pain subsided

from the injection I could feel no difference in the original pain.

Can you not get w/c to send you to another doctor since this doctor sticks

needles in you without even having the fluroscopy to see where he is putting it?

I'm sorry you are having such a hard time.

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> > Hi to all, and Happy New Year and may our health GET BETTER!!!???

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> > I have a question, I had a trigger point injection Dec 20 - in sacrum

-coccyx area(oops spelling).

> > I had mild relief for about 3 hours. Then the pain returned.... does it

finally settle down?

> > In the past week this pain I have had in this area following an injury has

got soooo BAD.

> > Could it be remotely possible that this injection has made it worse? - or is

this common?

> > The Doctor put the injection in at site of pain, then kinda moved the

injection around 360 degrees, while still in the spot.

> > I am seeing this Doctor again in about 10 days and he said if it didn't

worked ie 12/20 then he would do it by guided X-Ray?.

> > I am just so scared that if I go ahead with this option, I might be worse

again?

> > Any thoughts to this and has anyone experienced this happening, it is

getting worse, I am talking nearly calling 911 - but what can they do.

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> > Thanks in advance - for any advice or thoughts

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[Guest guest]

I have just been diagnosed with si joint disfuntion as well and would really

like some more info about it. I do have herniated/bulging disks as well but the

doctor thinks the si joints are my main cause of all my pain, numbness, siatica

etc. It has got much much worse this winter.

[Guest guest]

Your pain sounds similar to mine. I have AA. I feel as if someone has stuck a

knife into my lower back and is twisting it in circles entwining the nerves

until they are pulling through my left hip/leg all the way down and it is

extremely nauseating. If I didn't have the correct pain medication I wouldn't be

able to tolerate it!!

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> Beware, beware, beware!!! They have wanted to do this injection on me for long

time. They use it as a " diagnostic tool " . Read this page, I am sure there are

others like it http://www.eorthopod.com/content/sacroiliac-joint-injections

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> Yes, when they poke me in that area, it is somewhat painful, but I have a hard

time explaining to the Docs that it is NOT THE SOURCE OF MY PIAN !!! But still

they want to inject me. So far, I have said no. (I wonder how much they charge

for that.) They really do not listen when I try to describe my pain. My pain

clinic has opened a new office closer to where I live, so now I have a new

medical person I go see. AAAKKKK! The first session I had with him, he suggested

that some of my pain, muscle spavins, severe cramping, could be attributed to an

'electrolyte imbalance', and asked me if I drank " juice " ... OK... Was kinda

stumped on that one... what kind of juice?'''...(what would you think?). Then he

said ORANGE JUICE... thinking afterwood I should of said, " Gee, can you ferment

that into a liquor? " ) Totally ridiculous.

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> When my pain is bad, it feels like someone has reached into the flesh of my

lower back, grabbed my spinal cord, and is trying to yank it out. Hmmmm... ya

think orange juice is gonna fix that???

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