I have chronic pain in my back, neck and legs. One herniated disk, four bulging disks, bone spurs and fused disks in my neck.
I was sugested by my regular doctor to go see a doctor at a pain clinic. My doctor set everything up for me. I was seeing the pain clinic every other week at first.
I had two weeks of physical therapy. It was at that time the pain clinic doc thought I should try a cortizone shot in my herniated disk.
I thought it can’t hurt to try it. I was optimistic and thought this may give me months of being pain free. The time I had it done I was warned ahead of time what to expect.
First the epideral shots. They burned a little but nothing i couldn’t handle. The doctor then said here comes the poke. He shot the needle with cortizone in the herniated disk. Once again it burned a little but not too bad.
That happened back in Febuary 2015. The shots worked but short lived. So I return to the clinic here in December 2015. I see a different doctor. He said we are going to give you a transfomital injection.
Now this injection is very painful. He asked if i wanted an iv to be sedated for the procedure. I said no. Just a local then the shot. He said okay.
Before I was brought into the procedure room a nurse came in and explained the post injection paperwork. It said on their that after the local wears off I will be in worse pain than my usual chronic pain for 3 to 7 days. It may take up to ten days until you feel the injection is working.
I then said so is the doctor going to prescribe me pain meds to get through the seven days? She said he might, but you can take Ib Profen and tylenol. I said too much Ib Profen is murder on my stomach and I probably won’t hold it down.
She ignored my question and reply and brought me back to the sterilized room. The doctor came in once I was prepped and warned me I was going to feel two pokes and then stinging.
He was right it stung. He kept the two needles in there for 20 seconds or so and kept pushing the local into my spine. I thought if that’s the worst I was gonna feel I can get through it and didn’t feel too bad.
He then said are you ready for this? Here comes the last poke. Pain shot into the disk and when the needle hit my nerves that went all the way down my legs I thought I was in hell with my legs on fire shooting out electricity burning up into my lower back.
All I could do is fist the bed and hold my breath. I thought wow he better plan on giving me pain meds for this, but no he didn’t. So i guess I will go with the Ib Profen and tylenol even knowing it will make me sick.
So I went home. The epideral was still in effect so I wasn’t in that much pain until bed time. I tried to avoid the Ib Profen so I put on my tens unit 7000 and wore that to bed all night. I got up in the morning and felt pretty good,
Until around noon the cruciating pain set in. I took the Ib Profen every six hours and tylenol every four. I did that all day and night. Along with a muscle relaxer twice in a 24 hour period. By 2 am I was vomiting everything up. I couldnt even hold down water.
I called the doctor and left a message letting him know I am in worse pain than the precedure and chronic pain put together and I am vomiting the Ib Profen and water up just like I said I would. Either they don’t listen or don’t care.
NO ONE CALLED ME BACK!
Either way they have put my life in a lot of pain and now looking like dehydration also. No one ever called me back. So now I am on no pain meds with triple the pain I normally in and my right leg is weak and numb.
This injection better bring me months of being pain free or all this suffering is for nothing. I go from sitting to walking just to try to deal with the pain. This clinic has me so pissed off and feeling like the doctor is in it only for the money and doesn’t give a ratsass about the well being of the patient.
Oh and all the B.S. is ruining my Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. *@#$ pain clinic make patients suffer. They will hear all about it on January 4th when I return for my follow up appt.
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