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Posted by Fivefires on June 9, 2008, at 12:41:51
Hi all.
I'm trying to find an operative report in its entirety, well actually this minimally invasive procedure which is called, something like,
Cervical selective root sleeve injection with dexamethasone and bupivacaine.
The sites I'm finding won't give me a print of a procedure.
Anyone know where to look, how to search, to find a couple of these, if they're effective, things gone wrong, etc.?
Tks for help.
The pain management doc which I've got an appt to see in 2wks doesn't even have the procedure on this docs web site for a person to view.(?)
I used to type operative reports, procedures, etc., so ... that's really what I'd like to see.
And of course, if anyone knows of anyone who has had this minimally invasive procedure performed, please share with me.
Tks so much for any help.
5f
and: I've been on darvocet to Percocet for 13yrs. Epidurals w/ triamcinolone were ineffective. Trigger points were effective but short-lasting and docs wouldn't give often enough to control pain.
If I pay to detox off pain meds and have this done, I'd certainly like to see what is going to be done first, wouldn't you all?
Oh, it's cervical C2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, with disc extrusions being more or less at different levels resulting from being thrown very hard into a corner where two walls met. After this happened I had a bright red line from just beneath my head straight down my spinal cord to about waistline I think. Of course there were other things which happened to me which could have contributed to this 5th MRI and my PCP now wanting me to d.c. pain meds after 13yrs.
I'm scared. Talked w/ some women who'd had surgery, failed were worse, and their docs were treating them w/ meds like I.
Whatever shall I do? (Where is this 'sillyness' I have coming from?) Maybe a little bit of Nardil a few wks ago shook some neurotransmitters loose!
Posted by Phillipa on June 11, 2008, at 0:12:18
In reply to Selective root sleeve inj w/ dexa/bupi for Dummies, posted by Fivefires on June 9, 2008, at 12:41:51
Five Fires sounds like some kind of cortisone shots in the cervical part of your spine. Neck problem? Did the doc say? Love Phillipa
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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