08-12-2009, 05:06 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Delaware
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Originally Posted by energyofhope
I have always wondered why I don't get benefit from selective nerve blocks or epidural steroid injections. At best, the results are absolutely neutral, with no reaction whatsoever. But at worst, when they've hit the problem spot head on, I go into a terrible long lasting flare-up. When the flare-up subsides, my symptoms return to the same intensity levels as before the injection. So, the injections either don't help, or make things worse, no benefit...
Has anyone else experienced the same pattern? If so, have your doctors ever given you a good explanation for this (opposite) result. It would be good to figure out if this points at a specific kind of pathology.
I suspect that something that chronically irritatates/inflames nerves is responsible, but then I've read that many people with this diagnosis get benefit from the injections, so I don't know. Any ideas?
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That is 100% the same way i felt....
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C4-5: Mild disc height loss with central annular fissure. Small broad-based left paracentral disc protrusion. Moderate central canal stenosis-the disc protrusion abuts and mildly flattens the left ventral surface of the spinal canal.
C5-6: Disc desiccation with mild height loss.Diffuse discosteophyte bulge and uncovertebral joint hypertrophy, moderate central canal stenosis- Severe neuroforaminal stenosis bilaterally, right greater than left.
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