Trigger Point INjections, do they help you?

[Rooberri]

Hi Jess18,
I'm new to the board and this is my first post.
My daughter has been diagnoised with Cervical Myofascial Pain.

We live in Charlotte also and she has trigger points done at the Southeast Pain Center on Randolph Rd. Dr. Munez is excellent.

You can have up to 9 or 10 shots at a time. You can only have some much of the lidocane or procane as it will become toxic if you get too much.

My daughter has had the best relief from these. She has reduced her meds and is starting to have pain levels reduced from 6-8 down to 2-4. Sorness lasts about 3 days for the injections but the pain you feel before you get the shots will get worse after the shots and last about 5-7 days and then it will subside.

Excellent tool for treatment.

Hope you get relief soon.

Sheri in Charlotte

[dreambeliever128]

I have had so many triggerpoint injections, if the holes stayed, I'd look like a strainer.

I swear by them. I have had them for the Fibro, Pelvic pain, RSD, and chest pain.

They do work. I think at times it takes more then one in areas, you almost need a series of them in certain areas to calm it down completely.

My PCP gives them to me. They don't hurt when he does it but at the U of Colorado Hospital the needles were too long. My PCP said they don't have to be big needles to do the job.

Mine are mostly lidocaine and ketamine injections. I've only had about 3 steroid shots in the 10 years of dealing with the pain.

Ada