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Reply: dealing with family and my boss

I hope that just knowing there are so many of us out there will help you. We all have a...

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Reply: Severe cervical spine OA, excessive head sweating

I have been reading up on this and your cranial facial nerves can be included in c-spine OA....

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Reply: Severe cervical spine OA, excessive head sweating

I am on HRT, have been for years. I have blood work done all the time for Thyroid nodule in...

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Reply: Severe cervical spine OA, excessive head sweating

But they have approved it for dystonia which is severe muscle spasms, anywhere. They have...

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Reply: tainted shots and feeling worse after those shots

Anyone who has had an injection with the suspected batch numbers/lot numbers should already...

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Reply: Knee cortisone shot anyone?

It makes a difference to have pre-meds. I usually don't need that because the lidocaine is...

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Reply: Knee cortisone shot anyone?

We, the heriditary OA people need to form a group of our own. We are not the same as the...

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Reply: Knee cortisone shot anyone?

Again, that is too much pain after an injection. Injections can also be tools for doctors to...

Posted by sharim

Again, that is too much pain after an injection. Injections can also be tools for doctors to realize the severity of the injury. They are used, at times, as diagnostics.
I would first call the doctor to let them know just how bad it is. Pain level, pain calendar often helps. Not weird reaction just not as expected.
Elevate and ice for the first 24 hours, then try some heat. Sometimes the medication can crystallize, it's a weird thing. If that has happened it takes longer to dissolve which takes longer to help the inflammation.Remember cortisone is only an anti inflammatory and has no pain relieving properties. So you need to take some pain medication, did they provide a script or suggest what to take? Be careful of acetaminophen or paracetamol because this is not an anti inflammatory only pain and be very, very careful of how many you take as this can have disastrous effects on the liver. I have had this happen in my back (crystallization) and have found heat to be very soothing. Same instructions as for ice; 20 minutes on and off. I find though that I become to used to the heat and it doesn't have the same soothing effect after a while.
I have so many good and bad experiences with shots, everywhere-back, neck, elbows, carpal tunnel, knees, ankles, once for plantar faccitits (that one I would never, ever repeat) I clawed the table, I think I left a hole in the upholstery. He said "scream if you have to but don't pull away, I'll have to start over again". When a doctor says that to you LOOK OUT!!
They know how bad the shots can be and they need to sound proof the room they use for shots. The only one that left me moaning was one at the base of my tail bone after my first back surgery because he thought it would be a better location for the shot, "literature states". How embarrassing because I was not prepared for that one, just above the anus into the spinal canal or whats left of it. Face down screaming into the table padding. Never again, plus I think he caused a pilonidal cyst with that. Link to that:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilonidal_cyst
Good luck, prayers for you, call the doctor.View Thread

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Reply: Excessive Head Sweating

You are quoting one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. I will keep everyone...

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You are quoting one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
I will keep everyone informed. Of course after a very gentile examination I have a terrific headache now. It started shortly after I posted yesterday. This has the makings for a really bad one. I keep changing pillows, my bed is brand new and very comfortable. I find feather pillows to be the best for support because I can fluff and position them anyway needed. Oh boy this one will hopefully work.
I had the RFA done way back in 2006, it did not work so good but it was a different doc who was not so clean shall we say. I never knew a doctor to eat during a procedure before or since. Donuts one day. That bothered me because you should be in a kind of sterile environment when sticking needles into someone's neck, I would imagine anyway. No pre-meds of any kind, when I read the reports he made of the procedures, the RFA, he noted that the actual pulse lasted 90 seconds. Well, I can tell you that it was not a minute and 1/2. More like 30 or 40 seconds. I was fully awake and if it would have lasted that long it would have seemed an eternity. Really. He also had hit a vessel because blood poured out and down my chin onto the fluoroscopic machine, I thought it might have been an anesthetic when I opened my eyes I realized it was a pretty fast flowing stream of blood and I had to tell them (Dr. and assistant) that I was bleeding. They were just chit chatting and the actual ablation had not started yet they were still placing the needles. Eating donuts, chit chatting not paying attention to the patient at all. " Hey! bleeding here!". Then they had not grounded me, they have to attach an electorde to your leg and they could not figure out why it was not working. Again I had to tell them "Hey! not grounded here!"
I know that with the real pain specialist this will not occur. And I get to be minimally sedated unlike my 2006 experience wide awake.
I will let you all know as soon as it's done. It's not unlike epidurals but this is the neck not the low back. Most of all if it stops the sweats since they do the smaller nerves, rami nerves I think it is.
Thanks for your well wishes.View Thread

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Reply: Knee cortisone shot anyone?

Be careful of too much cortisone. I developed glaucoma a few years back because every doctor...

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