[lorna]

What injections have you tried to help with your pain. I have done mobic and lately botox if you have any questions of me feel free to ask. I didn't get much of anything from mobic and botox wow expensive but fingers crossed, to help with spasms. lorna

[kindachaotic]

Don't know your ailments but from experience the ole tried & true cortisone injection still works for me.
Sometimes 3 a year, sometimes none for several years at a time.
Wishing you the best.

[Leed]

I've tried all kinds of injections, and NOTHING works for me. It seems they're just a good money-maker for the doctors!!!

[yellowted]

doc won't prescribe any pain injections for me ...hes sadistic and prefers me to suffer...all he says is they won't work until i can walk!!!

[bebop]

I had the epidurals and some other injections with no improvement at all.

[lorna]

From your comments above it makes me scared... its what I have felt, that the injections don't work or if they do only a short time. Gosh by now with all of us pain sufferers you would think they would know more!!

[beadlady29]

beads tried steroid injectoins adn they not hepl niether.............

[avlady]

I can't believe I'm reading about the injections , i was going to get one, the nurse talked to be for a long time about how well they work, what a waste of time. do they everwork for anybody? i'm thinking of getting them soon, but not if they don't even work.also the menningitis scared me too.

[jazelle]

Originally Posted by avlady

I can't believe I'm reading about the injections , i was going to get one, the nurse talked to be for a long time about how well they work, what a waste of time. do they everwork for anybody? i'm thinking of getting them soon, but not if they don't even work.also the menningitis scared me too.

I've had multiple injections in back, shoulders and knees. I had nerve block in back, and something different where the nerves are burned on both side of facet joints.

The injections did not get rid of the pain completely, maybe 40% is my guess. The last set of injections in back about a year ago. The got rid of the sciatica that ran down my legs, eased the pain in my back to a degree. My shoulders are still painful, so maybe it might be helpful to go through more injections for them.

Injections are painful, no doubt and they are not 100% effective in my case, but did reduce my pain and I can take less pain meds than I used to. Looking back I was terrified to have them. Especially so many. I did not have any complications. It did take some time after the injections to feel relief.

Hope this is helpful

I've had trigger point injections for Chronic Pelvic pain, and I thought they were worth doing. The first lot (4 sessions a month apart) helped with about 50% of the pain on the second set - literally 50% of the pain went as soon as I went home after. It meant I could walk a little better without white hot jarring sudden pain, and I could sleep better without waking up in pain several times. The other two injections only helped a little bit more, but for me personally it was a God send. The pain slowly started to creep up after about 8 months, and I had some more this year, but not as effective but still worth it. I have never returned to the level of pain I had originally, but I am now waking up in pain again sometimes.

It hurts to get them done, but I found it was such a short burst of pain, like a bee sting. They needed to do the pain thing for me, to make sure they hit the right spot, as it were. It really was over in 1-2 seconds and then they inject and the anesthetic kicks in. The pain was also only the same that I suffered from anyway, so not worse.

Having been treated very badly by several doctors over the years, I do not trust doctors and try to learn the best about treatments. So.. I did more research, it really does depend on who does the injections - at least here in the UK. Luckily I had my treatment done by a pain specialist who's special interest is pelvic pain (and teaches others all over the world) and going from talking to others who had little success with the exact same treatment, it was most probably down to the specialist, rather than the therapy itself. I had previously been under a pain specialist who didn't really believe in the injections, and would offer only one, so I declined as I'd already done my research and that a set of 4 offers the best treatment. All she wanted to keep doing was anti-d's and tramadol, which I don't get on with.

Hope it helps in some way! For me personally I find they are worth it, but need to find out who's who out there at the top of their field to give them the best chance!!

[snakeskin07]

i agree it does depend on who you are. I had NO PAIN during injections not even bee burning. I was very lucky had immediate relief and it lasted long term! My Pain management doctor was very good and treated me with immense respect he even protected me from the inevitability that I will one day end up in a wheel chair permanently until one day I saw it in my record because of a lawyer. He was a saint. OTHER DOCTORS were not so much of a saint. I have been in and out of a wheel chair and still fight to stay that way. Find out what your treatment will be and learn what the optimum and least will response will be and HOPE for something in the middle. Good luck to anyone reading this.

[Cherry73]

I have had all types of injections also. Many epidural a until they told me to stop because they were not working anymore and I had had so many. Also interventional radiology injections which were kinda scary but worked for a few weeks at relieving some pain. I had some trigger point injections, they proved useless for my spine but did work rather well for my shoulder. Cortisone injections in my knees along with the injection to improve fluidity of movement, the name escapes me at the moment, I believe which helps a lot. I am having another selective nerve root injection on Tuesday to see if they will help again since i stopped having them a few years ago.

[RedBarchetta]

Haven't tryed anything yet.....Now in June I have something Scheduled for Coperal Tunnel, I'll have to see what happens there. But in general, I figure anything for pain like that better not last more than a few hours....To permanently, or just long term stop nerves from working, it could effect a lot - example refused a nerve block the probably would have permanently removed the pain I keep getting in the pancreas - that is because that procedure also would have effected the Gul Bladder, Liver, and Kidneys - so forget that...