Re: BACK INJECTION
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04/24/22 01:59 PM
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I work in a clinic that all we do is pain injections.
Never heard of a steroid injection directly into the disc, I suspect the steroid and a numbing agent are to be administered to the area where the disc has irritated the nerve and caused inflamation. The fluid that leaks out of a disc is highly irritant to nerve tissue. There are such things as PRP and BMAC that are directly injected into discs. PRP = Protein Rich Plasma and BMAC = Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate. Both are for healing and regeneration of the disc material.
Some think surgery is the cure all/ end all for back pain. For some surgery is the answer, for others some type of treatment (usually involves a needle) is all that is needed. And for some surgery develops new issues. Each individual reacts differently to treatment.
We do a procedure called a discogram for surgeons to verify that the disc is in fact causing the pain. I have seen discs that looked nearly normal cause concordent pain and I have seen discs that look horrible not cause any pain at all.
Golf is not back friendly. The twisting and bending combined are a recipe for back problems. I see patients come through that play golf and have heard the doctors tell them the exact thing. You can play but you may be back for more "shots" later.
Good luck with the injection, hope it does the trick. Knowing what I know, I would try every treatment short of surgery they offered. Surgery would be the last option for me.
I'm sure you are probably right about where the injection is going. Golfing doesn't seem to bother my back but I did have to alter my swing some. I walk 80 to 90% of the holes while my friend drives the cart and that seems to do me some good also. Thanks for all the well wishes from everyone.
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Re: BACK INJECTION
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04/24/22 05:27 PM
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I have had the ESI injections a half dozen times, L4 L5 area. Been 7 months since my last back injection. I do go to Physical therapy gym daily on my lunch. Once you're a patient at the phys. Therapy gym and after insurance stops paying, I can pay $240.00 per year. This is going on my 4th year of daily work outs. Basically you're on your own at the gym, but all you have to do is ask or complain about something and the trainers will work with you at no cost. Hip injections are this week and next, first time for them, hope they work as good as the back injections.
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Re: BACK INJECTION
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04/24/22 06:34 PM
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Had the ladder bolted in in the '90s sometime. Yes toes feet are numb but that big pain is gone. I am pretty active and during the day sort of forget the numbness but at nite going to sleep it reminds me all about the pins and needles. Really annoying but beats the pain I used to have, heck I cant even remember what the pain was now, it was so long ago. Good luck......jk
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Re: BACK INJECTION
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04/24/22 08:15 PM
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At first the doctors thought that was what I was going to have then when I got there the anesthesiologist looked at my file and decided to do tigger point injections instead of in the disk because that one went away from my spine, this was in my neck, and worked pretty good, my lumbar disks have went both ways but I’m still living with those and the vertebrae fused themselves naturally.
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Re: BACK INJECTION
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04/25/22 12:50 PM
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Thanks for all the personal experiences and the well wishes.
The only pain I felt was when they gave me a shot to numb my back up. It felt like a bee sting and lasted 10 seconds or so. Once they were done, my left leg felt like it had a heavy weight attached to it but nothing other than that.
Now I wait and see if it helps.
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