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Originally Posted by vivs001
Hi, thanks for that reply. That is helpful. Sorry to hear you are dealing with a similar condition. I am a 39 year old woman, so I guess I'll fit right in here (yay)
On further questioning of my podiatrist, the injection he gave me last week was a peripheral nerve block injection combining steroid and anesthetic. He suspects CRPS type II with an injury to the sural nerve in my foot. The injection he gave me was in my foot near this nerve. Not a spinal injection. It's been one week since I got it, and it's still helping a lot with the pain.
I'm seeing a physiatrist in a few days for EMG/nerve conduction testing to find out more about the possible nerve injury and maybe get some PT started. Then I have to wait another 10 days to see the pain management doctor who treats a lot of CRPS cases and does spinal sympathetic nerve block injections. I don't know which of those two doctors would order a bone scan and/or neuropathy medication, but I will ask about it.
Are you doing any PT at all? Is that helping?
Thanks!
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Not as yet. I'm waiting for the third shot. A few weeks after I have an appointment for a physical with my PCP. We'll discuss PT then. I would think that either doctor could prescribe whatever medication they believe might be effective and complementary to what is already being administered.
My shots are spinal because I've had three surgeries from L3 to S1; a laminectomy at L3, a decompression/fusion at L4-L5 and a discectomy at L5-S1. All three relieved nerve pain that ran down my left leg to my foot. The last one, the discectomy, is the likely culprit that triggered the CRPS, at least that's what the neurosurgeon thinks. The medical report of the surgery does not suggest that there was any damage accidentally done to a nerve. So I guess I'm just lucky!