Posted by Fivefires on June 17, 2008, at 15:17:50
In reply to Re: Selective root sleeve inj w/ dexa/bupi for Dummies » Fivefires, posted by Phillipa on June 11, 2008, at 0:12:18
> Five Fires sounds like some kind of cortisone shots in the cervical part of your spine. Neck problem? Did the doc say? Love Phillipa>
Phillipa, have C2-3, 3-4, 4-5 disc extrusions, and have had cortisone/lidocaine trigger point injections into muscle, which have worked in past, but one is limited in how many of these they can receive.
I think this procedure is injections into 'the nerve', not the muscle, and instead of triamcinolone used in epidurals, there are two mediums injected; dexamethasome and bupivacaine(re: spelling - think that's close. I have a hard time using spell check when I'm posting. Any clues Phillipa?)
Anyway, this would be my followup tx if I do detox off med.
From what I'm hearing tho', even this way, treating 'the problem' is often less comforting than treating 'the symptoms', like pain meds, so, I'm really on the fence about this.
Also, somewhere here on babble I read pdocs are using opiates, maybe as nothing else works, for depression, or maybe TRD.
My PCP has taken as interest and believes I and my daughter 'the care here is just not good'. Seems only way to receive care is to not ask for any.(?)
So PCP is tryin' to help and prescribed an AD. I'm hurrying as have to go to two appts. Will post on meds.
I'd like to feel emotionally well before I go trying to work on the physical me. Have MRI scheduled AGAIN (I keep re-scheduling due to this awful bout of depression.) and an appt w/ Pain Management doc early July who will review all films and tell me what he thinks. At that point, I'll either detox or not, and I'll try as hard as possible to get into a good detox facility.
tks, 5f
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