Hi, I have been in Pain Management for 6 years and am on a variety of Pain Medications and Muscle relaxers for Degenerative Disc Disease, Cervical Spinal Stenosis and Degenerative Joint Disease.

I would go to PM each month in horrible pain even with the Morphine and Roxicodone for Breakthrough pain. I finally decided to go ahead and have a nerve block in my neck.

They did a Nerve Block in my c5-6 and my c6-7, I can not even begin to express the level of reduction of pain in my neck from this. It is dangerous but so is living with neck pain to the point of not wanting to live. I still have chronic pain elsewhere in my body and still take my pain meds, but the cervical epidural has been an answer to 6 years of agony and pain in my right side of my neck.

I would recommend it to anyone with chronic pain who can not find relief elsewhere. I was so scared of it and now I want injections all up and down my spine as the relief has been incredible. The entire procedure took less than 10-minutes and I walked out with my walker and felt relief for the first time in years.

The antisteshiologist was kind and did an excellent job, it will be one month on the 21st of Feb, and I go back for my regular pain meds and to follow up on how it is holding, and when I will need injections again cause I am not sure how long it will last, but it was worth it for me.

Thanks for reading about my Nerve Block and hope maybe it can be of help to others suffering from nerve and spinal pain.

Take Care, kk101